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Designated NHL. February 24, 1986. Designated CP. August 14, 1973. The McKim Building is the main branch of the Boston Public Library at Copley Square in Boston, Massachusetts. The building, described upon its 1895 opening as a "palace for the people", contains the library's research collection, exhibition rooms, and administrative offices.
The Boston Public Library contains approximately 24 million items, [7] making it the third-largest public library in the United States behind the federal Library of Congress and New York Public Library, which is also privately endowed. In 2014, the library held more than 10,000 programs, all free to the public, and lent 3.7 million materials.
The North of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE) is a consortium of 25 libraries on the North Shore of Massachusetts working to improve library service through automation. Seventeen public libraries, seven college libraries, and one special library are members. NOBLE was the first automated resource sharing network in the state and the first ...
Central Library (Somerville, Massachusetts) / 42.38583°N 71.09444°W / 42.38583; -71.09444. The Central Library is the main branch of the Somerville, Massachusetts, public library system. It is an architecturally distinguished Renaissance Revival brick building designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton and was built in 1914 with funding ...
The Cary Memorial Library (est.1869) is the main branch of the public library in Lexington, Massachusetts. [1] [2] It is located at 1874 Massachusetts Avenue in the town center. History [ edit ]
Boston Library Society (1792-1939) Boston Medical Library, the largest academic medical library in the world. Combined with Harvard's medical collections, it is also known as the Countway Library of Medicine. Congregational Library, a denominationally-independent research library of religious literature, located in Boston's Beacon Hill ...
West Church, Lynde St., West End, mid-19th century. Catalogue of S. Urbino's foreign circulating library, 19th century (American Antiquarian Society) Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Horticultural Hall, Tremont St., mid-19th century. Library in house of George Ticknor and his daughter Anna Ticknor, Park St., Boston, ca.1890s.
Boston Library Society. Coordinates: 42°21′19.57″N 71°3′28.89″W. Boston Social Library, Tontine Crescent, Franklin Place. The Boston Library Society was an American subscription library established in New England 's pre-eminent city, Boston, during 1792. Early subscribers included Revolutionary War figures Paul Revere and William Tudor.
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September 05, 1985 [1] Designated NHL. December 23, 1987 [2] The Converse Memorial Library – also known as Converse Memorial Building – is a historically significant building designed by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. From 1885 to 1996, it housed the Malden Public Library, which now occupies a modern building adjacent to it.