A violent labor strike, a private meeting in Andrew Carnegie’s home office, a petition by Upper Montclair residents, and the emergence of a new profession for women all played into the creation of the Bellevue Avenue Branch Library, a jewel-box of a building and community resource that will celebrate its 110th birthday this year.

This program will be presented by Lisanne Renner, a founding member of Friends of Anderson Park and the historian for that conservancy. She has a master's degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University.

This event will take place on Zoom, register here.

This program was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program  do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.