Margaret Carnegie Library is a historic Carnegie Library building completed in 1906 at

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University is a private college in Oakland, California and part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was r ...

in California. It was designed by

Julia Morgan Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career.Erica Reder"Julia Morgan was a local in ''The New Fillmore'', 1 Febr ...

, the first woman architect to be licensed in California. It was the second of the many Morgan designed buildings on campus. Made of reinforced concrete it includes uses Mission-style architecture details and has a red tile roof, iron balconies and arched windows. The interior has exposed wood beams.Images of the Margaret Carnegie Library
/ref> The library is named for

Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in ...

's daughter (his mother was also named Margaret).Ito, Susan (Winter 2004). "Julia Morgan at Mills" (PDF). Mills Quarterly (Mills College). p. 14. Retrieved 2008-02-27

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