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In the 1940s, the library on Ninth Street closed. [5] The Deshong Art Museum in Deshong Park was used as the library from 1961 to 1978. [7] In 1976, the current library was built at 620 Engle Street as a branch to serve the Southern and Western parts of Chester. In 1978, the main library was moved from the Deshong Art Museum to 620 Engle Street ...
Chester County History Center ... The History Center is a 56,000-square-foot (5,200 m 2) complex that houses a museum, a library, and a 250-seat auditorium. The ...
The donation of his property, mansion and art collection would be valued at over $24 million today. The park contained the Deshong Art Museum and the Deshong mansion. The museum building hosted the art collection and was used as a library from 1961 to 1978. However it fell into disrepair and suffered theft of the art collection.
In 1980, the Chester County Library moved to its current location in Exton (next to the Exton Square Mall). In 1982, the library in Exton received a National Association of Counties Award for its Library Literacy Program, the first in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania handling 30,000 illiterate and 15,000 non-English speaking residents.
As California faces a staggering budget deficit, library card holders may soon lose the ability to check out free passes to more than 200 state parks, including popular destinations near Los Angeles.
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The Easttown Public Library was founded in 1905 and is a member of the Chester County Library System which consists of the 18 public libraries in the county. The Upper Main Line YMCA was founded in 1962 and sits on the former 124-acre summer estate owned by investment banker J. Gardner Cassatt, the brother of famed painter Mary Cassatt and ...