Tour
Carnegie birthplace, Dunfermline
Situated
near the centre of Dunfermline in West Fife at 2 Moodie
Street is an 18th-century pantiled weaver's cottage
where Andrew Carnegie the industrialist and benefactor was
born in 1835. Now a museum, it was extended in 1925 with
the construction of the adjacent Memorial Building designed
by James Shearer.
Of the £70 million Carnegie gave to charity about £1 million
came to benefit Dunfermline where the Carnegie Dunfermline
Trust is based. Gifts to the town included the Carnegie
Centre, the Carnegie Free Library, the Carnegie Hall and
Pittencrieff Park.
