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The Central Library is the main library of the Kansas City Public Library system, which is located in the Library District of Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, United States.It is situated at 14 West 10th Street, at the corner of West 10th Street and Baltimore Avenue, across Baltimore Avenue from the Kansas City Club and up from the New York Life Building.
The system operates its Central Library and neighborhood branches located in Kansas City, Independence, and Sugar Creek. Founded on December 5, 1873, [3] it is the oldest and third largest public library system in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
The Kansas City Club on Baltimore Avenue. Originally developed as a commercial and entertainment area in the 1880s, the Library District took its new name in 2003 in connection with the move of the Kansas City Public Library's Central Branch to the former headquarters of the First National Bank of Kansas City, presently the Central Library.
The Kansas City Public Library Westport branch temporarily closed last week after an altercation between two library patrons that resulted in a police response, library officials said.
Kansas City Public Library: Kansas City Public Library: May 23, 1977 : 500 E. 9th St. Downtown: 74: Kansas City Southern Railway Building: Kansas City Southern Railway Building: May 6, 2004 : 114 W. 11th St.
Established in 1946 through the philanthropy of Linda (1859–1938) and Herbert F. Hall (1858–1941), of the Hall-Bartlett Grain Co., [3] the library is open to the public, and invites individual researchers, academic institutions, and companies from Kansas City and around the world to use the library's research-level collection.
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This new library soon became a branch of the Kansas City, Kansas Library, and in 1917 the city opened the Argentine Carnegie Library adjacent to Emerson Park. [4] This facility survived the 1951 flood and, by the 1970s, housed the largest Spanish Language collection in the metro area. [ 3 ]