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Huntington Free Library and Reading Room
The Huntington Free Library is a privately endowed library near Westchester Square in the Bronx borough of New York City which is open to the public. It has a non-circulating book collection.
The Reading Room has mostly turn-of-the-century items. It includes a special collection of books and photographs on local Bronx history. Its general collection contains current newspapers, magazines, and reference books.
==History==
The library was officially founded in 1892 by Collis P. Huntington,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://bronxnyc.com/Huntington_Free_Library_MIE.html )〕 a Southern Pacific Railroad magnate whose summer home was in nearby Throggs Neck, Bronx. Its origins, however, were in the will of Peter C. Van Schaick, a local philanthropist, who set aside funds from his estate to build a free reading room to be donated to the village of West Chester, (now the Bronx) upon its completion. The library, constructed between 1882 and 1883, was ultimately refused by the local townspeople who did not want to pay for its upkeep. The building sat vacant until Huntington was somehow informed of the stalemate and decided to take over the project. He put on an addition, and the library's doors opened to the public in 1891.
The library took on an important new role in 1930, when Archer M. Huntington, Collis's adopted son and benefactor of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, built an addition to the Huntington Free Library to house the museum's book collection, which was transferred to the library. In 1990, the museum became the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution. The library was not part of that arrangement. () In 2004 the American Indian collection was transferred to Cornell University ().
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