The Detroit Lakes Library was built with a $10,000 Carnegie grant — 114 years later it just got another one

The Detroit Lakes Library was built with a $10,000 Carnegie grant — 114 years later it just got another one

DETROIT LAKES — It’s like getting Christmas money from your great-great-grandpa, who just happened to have been a steel baron who appreciated a good book. In a happy surprise, the Detroit Lakes Public Library has received a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York — the foundation established by Andrew Carnegie that originally paid for the Detroit Lakes Library, which opened brand new in 1913. Ironically, the original Carnegie gr…