The Elizabeth Public Library is the free

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Elizabeth, New Jersey Elizabeth is a City (New Jersey), city in and the county seat of Union County, New Jersey, Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Charles N. Fowler, US Congressman from Union County. It is one of New Jersey's original thirty-six Carnegie libraries, which by the 1940s had become one of the busiest libraries of its size in the USA. Records show that millionaire

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granted $130,810 made February 3, 1910, for the main and no longer existing Liberty Plaza branch libraries. Opened in 1912, the building, reminiscent of an Italian

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and the

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was designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton, who had designed many other Carnegie libraries as well as the immigration station at

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. It is a

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to the Midtown Historic District, a state and federal

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established in 1994–1995. The Main Library is the

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for Union County.

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