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The Beacon Hill Branch Library is a branch of the Seattle Public Library in the Beacon Hill neighborhood.. Beacon Hill is one of five branches, all south of the Lake Washington Ship Canal, that saw declining use in the 2010s, possibly because job-seekers in the city's less affluent southern half had been using libraries during Seattle's 2008-2012 recession.
It is located on the second floor of the Congregational House at 14 Beacon Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The Library was founded in 1853 by a gathering of Congregational ministers [ 2 ] and has since evolved into a professional library and archives that holds more than 250,000 items, predominantly focused on ...
The Charles Street Meeting House is an early-nineteenth-century historic church in Beacon Hill at 70 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The church has been used over its history by several Christian denominations, including Baptists, the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Unitarian Universalist. In the 1980s, it was renovated and ...
[29] The rooms that he rented were the same ones once used personally by George Washington while it was his headquarters, [13] and he wrote to his friend George Washington Greene: "I live in a great house which looks like an Italian villa: have two large rooms opening into each other. They were once Gen. Washington's chambers".
Pages in category "Libraries in Beacon Hill, Boston" ... State Library of Massachusetts This page was last edited on 12 August 2018, at 11:46 (UTC). ...
The Chester Harding House, a National Historic Landmark occupied by portrait painter Chester Harding from 1826–1830, now houses the Boston Bar Association.. The List of notable addresses in Beacon Hill, Boston contains information, by street, of significant buildings and the people who lived in the community.
1868–1871 List of books added to the library of the Boston Athenaeum. 17 nos. 8° 1877–1896 List of additions. Second Series. No. 1–354. September 1, 187 to March 2, 1896. 1472 pp. sm. 4° 1874 Catalogue of the library of the Boston Athenaeum. 1807–1871. 5 v. 3402 pp. l. 8° The first catalog, that of 1810, was compiled by the Rev ...
Gradually long-time black residents of Beacon Hill moved their businesses and homes to that area. 1897 Robert Gould Shaw Memorial honoring 54th Massachusetts Regiment was dedicated in Boston Common. 1898 The Black congregation of the African Meeting House moved to Roxbury; the meeting house became a Jewish synagogue, representing new immigrants ...