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The original grant of $750,000 was divided so that "[a]bout half (not more, I think less) of this sum should be expended on the central library and the remainder on branch libraries." Main library grant was supplemented by a $780,000 bond issue. [3]: 6, 9 96: San Francisco Chinatown San Francisco: Jun 20, 1901 —
The Alameda County Library, in Alameda County, California, is a public library system that provides services from eleven branch libraries in the cities of Albany, Dublin, Fremont, Newark and Union City and the unincorporated communities of Castro Valley, Cherryland and San Lorenzo. According to 2005/2006 statistics, the total service area ...
The Hayward Public Library is located there. "Hayward City Center" a mall and building complex located at the northern end of downtown, contains the City Center Building, which served as the city's second city hall from 1969 to 1991, and is now an abandoned 11 story building, Hayward's tallest building, formerly the second tallest prior to ...
Hayward is a city located in Alameda County, California, United States, in the East Bay subregion of the San Francisco Bay Area. With a population of 162,954 as of 2020, [10] Hayward is the sixth largest city in the Bay Area, and the third largest in Alameda County. [12] Hayward was ranked as the 36th most populous municipality in California.
Construction began on the 9,034-square-foot Main Street Branch Library in 1949, in what was known as the International Style, and more recently called Mid Century Modern. [2] The library opened in 1951, and the town's original Carnegie Library (1914-1951) at 8th and Walnut streets was closed and demolished. [3]
The newly remodeled Woodland Branch Library (at 4,600 square feet) located in Los Altos and jointly funded by the City and the Library reopened in March 2010. Groundbreaking for the new Gilroy Library (at 53,500 square feet) took place in July 2010 and the replacement building on the same site was dedicated on April 27, 2012.
The Branch was temporarily closed in 1987 due to the Whittier Narrows Earthquake, along with 6 other L.A. branch libraries. The structural damage reported totaled approximately $32,000. [ 4 ] On July 28, 1988, while the building was closed for repairs, the branch was moved to a temporary location on 3500 Whittier Blvd, Los Angeles.
The Downtown Library, Schaberg Branch Library, and Redwood Shores Branch Library comprise the three library locations in the community of Redwood City. San Mateo has a main downtown location plus two minor branches, while South San Francisco has two self-titled branches, both a main branch and one on Grand Avenue.