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Boston Directory and Massachusetts Magazine begin publication. 1790 Memorial column erected atop Beacon Hill. Population: 18,320. [26] 1791 – Massachusetts Historical Society founded. 1792 Board Alley Theatre opens. Boston Library Society established. J. & T.H. Perkins shipping merchant in business. 1793 – West Boston Bridge opens. [2] 1794
The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1848. [4] The Boston Public Library is also Massachusetts' Library for the Commonwealth [ 5 ] (formerly library of last recourse ), [ 6 ] meaning all adult residents of the state are entitled to borrowing and research privileges, and the library ...
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.
The center manages the geographic collections of the Boston Public Library as well as material collected by Norman B. Leventhal during his lifetime, known as the Mapping Boston Collection. Its holdings stretch chronologically from the 15th century to the present, and geographically cover the world, with a focus on Boston and New England.
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]
Conditions of Blakes' circulating library, no.1 Cornhill, 1800 Ad for Suffolk Circulating Library, corner Brattle and Court St., 1822 Ad for Franklin Circulating Library, Court St., 1824 Mercantile Library Association, Merchants Hall, corner Congress and Water St., 1820s-1830s Ad for S.H. Parker's circulating library, Washington St., 1832 Portrait of Elizabeth Peabody, proprietor of foreign ...
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Public libraries in the American Colonies can be traced back to 1656, when a Boston merchant named Captain Robert Keayne willed his collection of books to the town. [1]Church collections of books used by the public served as early versions of libraries in New England around the 18th century.