| Carnegie Education Pavilion | |
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 Carnegie Education Pavilion | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Pavilion |
| Location | Hardy Ivy Park,Atlanta,Georgia,United States |
| Construction started | 1996 |
| Completed | 1997 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Henri Jova |
TheCarnegie Education Pavilion, more often known as theCarnegie Monument, is a marbleBeaux-Arts monument located inAtlanta,Georgia, United States. The pavilion was constructed in 1996 from the exterior facade of theCarnegie Library, named afterAndrew Carnegie. The monument pays homage to the legacy of Carnegie by serving as a monument tohigher education in Atlanta, with the seals of nine local area colleges and universities embedded in the floor of the monument.[1] The monument was commissioned in 1996 by the Corporation for Olympic Development in Atlanta and designed byHenri Jova. The pavilion is located in Downtown'sHardy Ivy Park, at the curve inPeachtree Street where it diverges with West Peachtree Street.[2] The monument's inscription reads: "The Advancement of Learning." It also features the inscriptions of the names of three famous Western poets "Dante", "Milton", and "Asop", in addition to the library's namesake, "Carnegie".[3]
From 1899 to 1901, Andrew Carnegie, the steel magnate and philanthropist from Pittsburgh, donated $145,000 to construct, furnish, and supply a new public library in Atlanta. A site was chosen at 126 Carnegie Way in downtown Atlanta. The library, built by New York architectsAckerman and Ross, opened in 1902. It was renovated in 1950 and 1966, and remained the central library ofthe system until it was demolished in 1977 in order to make way for the controversialMarcel Breuer-designedCentral Library. The architectural bays of the original structure were preserved and used to create the pavilion twenty years after the building's demolition.[4]
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