You are correct, only the playing surface of Peden (wonder if this is because it's a landmark?  And the entire building that is currently known as the Convocation Center.

 

Well, the University has done this trick before, and it kind of irks me.  The building now known as Scripps Hall was for years called Carnegie Hall.  My father worked in that building for many years, when it was the home of the mathematics department.  Then Ohio's administration gets an offer from the Scripps Howard Foundation for about $5 million and they change the name.  The problem is that the Carnegie Foundation had originally given the money to construct the building with the understanding that it would be called Carnegie.  It was originally, I believe, the library before Chubb was built.  I asked several upper level administrators at the time if they had received permission from the Carnegie folks to make the name change.  They just gave me puzzled looks and acted like I wasn't a team player because I dared to broach the subject.  Still doesn't sit right with me! 


 

Can you provide a source for this understanding?

 

I have looked into this a little more and will concede that you are right about the fact that there was no requirement that the library be given the name Carnegie.  However, I have seen a few agreements between the Carnegie Foundation and specific libraries that included the name "Carnegie Library" as part of the agreement.  To me this seemed to be a contract and the naming was part of the contract.  Perhaps, I misinterpreted that.  To your point about Chubb and Alden, I don't see the parallel.  Those were built primarily with state funds (maybe some federal) so I don't see any "naming issue" there at all.  Also, BTW, another stipulation that Carnegie made was that libraries built with his funds had to have open stacks, so that patrons were in control and could browse.  I found that interesting.  

 

The terms of the grant are easily found by googling "Carnegie Library." There was never a stipulation about the names. Most were not named Carnegie Library and instead took the name of the area they served, such as "Paulding County Library." Many are not used as libraries anymore, and many that are don't have any indication on the outside that they are a Carnegie Library--so you'd never even know by looking at the building. 

There are over 100 Carnegie Libraries in Ohio alone:

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Carnegie_libraries_in_Ohio

 

amherst.lib.oh.us/


goo.gl/maps/2lWbp
 

This list is very interesting.  It has Athens with two Carnegie libraries -- on under public libraries and one under academic libraries.  The former is listed as being a $30,000 grant in 1903 and the latter as a grant of 13,700 in 1915. Now the question is, where is the public library that was built with Carnegie funds?  The current historical society building was once a public library.  I wonder if it was built with Carnegie funds.