This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Riverfront Cedar Rapids Library Breakthrough Story
A Cedar Rapids woman helped persuade Andrew Carnegie to fund a $75,000 library plan on a riverfront site after the 1902 flood shifted city views. The Third Avenue Fifth Street SE location, designed by Henry S. Josselyn, opened June 23, 1905, with 13,761 volumes and 80,183 circulation.
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Cedar Rapids
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
May’s Island
Third Avenue
Fifth Street SE
Ely Corner
Henry S. Josselyn
Josselyn and Taylor Co
C. D. van Vechten
Kenwood
Edgewood