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The library on Catherine Street.
It opened in 1906 has lots of classical elements and is made of local red sandstone with great attention paid to symmetry using alternate arched and rectangular windows. The building was part financed by the great philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Previously the library had been on Queen Street.
The large classical doorway with straight ionic style pilasters is topped with a palladian pediment enclosing a florid heraldic device beautifully carved and containing the old Whitehaven shield taken from the Lowther coat of arms. At the beginning of the 19th century this is as far as Catherine Street went. '