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The Seattle Public Library also includes Mobile Services and the Central Library, which was designed by Rem Koolhaas and opened in 2004. The Seattle Public Library also founded the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library (WTBBL), which it administered until July 2008. All but one of Seattle's early purpose-built libraries were Carnegie ...
The Seattle Central Library is the flagship library of the Seattle Public Library system. The 11-story (185 feet or 56.9 meters high) glass and steel building in the downtown core of Seattle , Washington was opened to the public on May 23, 2004.
The Douglass-Truth Branch is a library building and Seattle Public Library branch in Seattle, Washington, United States. [1] Named after Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, [2] the library houses the West Coast's largest collection of African-American literature and history. [3] In 2001, the library was designated a Seattle Historic ...
Built by Causey and Carney. Razed 1957-8 for new Library 25: Seattle Ballard: Seattle: March 27, 1903: $15,000 2026 Northwest Market Street, Seattle, WA. 98107-4080 Designed in the Neoclassical Revival style by Henderson Ryan. Library moved to new quarters in 1963. Building currently houses a bar called Kangaroo and Kiwi. 26: Seattle Columbia ...
The library opened to the public on June 24, 1904. [1] [2] It was the first major branch of the Seattle public library system after Ballard was annexed by Seattle in 1907, and also employed one of the first African American librarians in Seattle. The Ballard Carnegie Library remained in use until 1963, when a newer and more modern facility ...
In October 1999, after two public meetings, the Seattle Library Board voted to build a new branch on the current site of the Henry Branch. [1] The Library Board rejected an offer from a private developer that sought to put the new library branch in a mixed-use development at Broadway and 10th Avenue East, after public opposition to the 65-foot ...