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The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1848. [4]
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 neighborhood
Boston Public Library was founded in 1852. The first Boston Public Library location opened in 1854 in two rooms in the Adams School on Mason Street. Because the Mason Street space was small and poorly lit, a new building opened at 55 Boylston Street in 1858. It cost $365,000 to build and held 70,000 volumes.
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 .
The Boston Library Consortium is a consortium of twenty-six institutions: sixteen in Massachusetts, five in Connecticut, one in New Hampshire, one in Rhode Island, and two in Vermont. The Internet Archive is an affiliate member. [ 1 ]
In 1852, the Boston Public Library was founded as the first free library in the United States. [254] Boston's literary culture continues today thanks to the city's many universities and the Boston Book Festival. [256] [257] Music is afforded a high degree of civic support in Boston.
The Honan-Allston branch of the Boston Public Library is located at 300 North Harvard Street in Lower Allston. The 57,000 square feet (5,300 m 2) building opened in 2001 at a cost of $6.5 million, replacing a former branch closed in 1981. [2] [3] The library itself contains an area of 20,000 square feet (1,900 m 2). [1]
Massachusetts Board of Free Public Library Commissioners. Free public library buildings of Massachusetts : a roll of honor, 1918. Wright & Potter printing co., state printers, 1919