Edgewater Public Library

{{Use American English|date=August 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Edgewater Public Library | nrhp_type = | image = Edgewater Library.JPG | caption = | location = 49 Hudson Avenue Edgewater, New Jersey | coordinates = {{coord|40|49|47|N|73|58|27|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = USA New Jersey Bergen County | built = 1915 | architect = | architecture = Colonial Revival | added = December 23, 2009 | area = | refnum = 09001154<ref name=NJRHP/> | designated_other1_name = New Jersey Register of Historic Places | designated_other1_abbr = NJRHP | designated_other1_link = New Jersey Register of Historic Places | designated_other1_date = January 5, 2009 | designated_other1_number = 4738<ref name=NJRHP>[https://www.nj.gov/dep/hpo/1identify/nrsr_lists/BERGEN.pdf New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places: Bergen County], New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Historic Preservation Office, updated March 30, 2023. Accessed April 30, 2023.</ref> | designated_other1_num_position = bottom | designated_other1_color = #ffc94b }} The '''Edgewater Public Library''' is located at 48 Hudson Avenue in Edgewater, in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

Serving a population of 7,677, the library in 2011 included a collection of 20,402 volumes. As a member of Bridging Communities, Connecting Library Services, a consortium of municipal libraries in the northeastern New Jersey counties of Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, and Essex, it has a circulation of 52,627 items per year.<ref>{{Cite web | title = Edgewater Free Public Library | publisher = librarytechnology.org | date = 2011 | url = http://www.librarytechnology.org/lwc-displaylibrary.pl?RC=10652 | accessdate = 2011-09-26}}</ref>

The building is one of New Jersey's 36 Carnegie libraries, constructed with a grant of $15,000 made March 16, 1915 by the Carnegie Corporation and opened in 1916.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bobinski|first=George S.|title=Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development|publisher=American Library Association|location=Chicago|date=1969|isbn=0-8389-0022-4|ref=Bobinski}}</ref><ref>*{{cite book|last=Jones|first=Theodore|title=Carnegie Libraries Across America|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=New York|date=1997|isbn=0-471-14422-3|ref=Jones}}</ref> Engraved about its entrance is '''Edgewater Free Library'''. In 2009, the library was listed on the state and national registers of historic places.<ref name=NJRHP/>

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== External links == *[http://www.edgewaterlibrary.org/ Edgewater Public Library] *[http://www.bccls.org/ Bergen County Cooperative Library System]

Category:Library buildings completed in 1916 Category:Edgewater, New Jersey Category:Carnegie libraries in New Jersey Category:Buildings and structures in Bergen County, New Jersey Category:Neoclassical architecture in New Jersey Category:New Jersey Register of Historic Places Category:Public libraries in New Jersey