News
April 11, 2011
City Council Approves the Building Design & Site Master Plan
For Snohomish Carnegie Educational Center
Snohomish, WA ~ 11 April 2011: Last Tuesday night, The Snohomish City Council approved the building addition design report & site master plan for theSnohomish Carnegie Educational Center, A Place For Families.
The Snohomish Carnegie Educational Center is located at 105 Cedar Avenue and once served as the Snohomish Carnegie Library from 1910 to 2003. The old library building, which was replaced by the new, award-winning library in 2003, located at 4th and Maple in Snohomish, is the oldest publicly-owned building in Snohomish. It sits on a 1/2 square block in the heart of our historic downtown district.
The current challenge to our community is to bring this site back to a vibrant civic and cultural use for our residents, once again serving our community for educational, recreational and cultural purposes for the next 100 years. The Carnegie building and grounds will be rehabilitated to its historic grandeur. It was presented to the city in 1910 through the hard work and dedication of the residents of Snohomish and a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation.
The rehabilitation of the Carnegie building and the grounds will be funded via the efforts of the Snohomish Carnegie Foundation as they seek private grants and a private capital campaign. No public funds will be sought.
“The Snohomish Carnegie Foundation is humbled to be a part of the community wide effort to bring this grand building and site back to life and re-gift it back to our community for the next 100 years, once again becoming the jewel of Historic Snohomish” said Melody Clemans, President of the Foundation Board.
To learn more about The Snohomish Carnegie Educational Center, check us out at http://www.snohomishcarnegie.org/
Meet Me @ The Carnegie!
Contact: Elizabeth Grant, Board Member, Snohomish Carnegie Foundation
Telephone: 360.568.7775 e-mail: elizabethgrant22@frontier.com
Snohomish Carnegie Educational Center, A Place for Families was featured in the Everett Herald newspaper. Read the story here.
April 5, 2011
The City Council approved the Building Update and Site Master Plan for the CarnegieEducationalCenteron April 5 by unanimous vote. The Design Report is available on the City website at www.ci.snohomish.wa.us/Parks.htm and also at the Sno-Isle Library and Carnegie Educational Center. The rehabilitation of this 101-year-old concrete structure will begin in 2012 with seismic strengthening funded primarily through the FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program administered by the Washington State Military Department Emergency Management Division. Fundraising to complete rehabilitating the building and rebuild the historic park now occupied by the 1968 library addition is underway. The Snohomish Carnegie Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that accepts any and all support for this purpose; you can contact the Foundation at www.snohomishcarnegie.org/ and atPO Box 1088,Snohomish,WA98291.
Foundation Board
Melody Clemans, president
Rebecca Loney, secretary
Anne Eason, treasurer
Greg Guedel
Dan Reynolds
Candace McKenna
Rosanna Sze
Leah Harrison
Fred Lighter, board consultant
Ex Officio Members
Dwight Knechtel
Elizabeth Grant
Bill Bates
Cathy Reines
Ed Poquette