Barr Branch - St. Louis Public Library - St. Louis, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 36.874 W 090° 13.282
15S E 741927 N 4277668
The children's section of this branch is very busy.
Waymark Code: WMKZHK
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 06/22/2014
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County of library: St. Louis Independent City
Location of library: Jefferson Ave. & Lafayette Ave., St. Louis
Building build: 1905
Phone: (314) 771-7040
Everything is here: Lib-Web-Cats
"The library was founded as a members-only private library in 1865 with a collection of 1,500 books. It was opened to the public in 1874 and reestablished as a publicly supported free lending library in 1893-94, by which time the collection included 90,000 books. In 1901, Andrew Carnegie made a large donation which was used for expansion, including building the current central library. By 1938 the collection included 900,000 items, and by 2014, 4,600,000 items.
Locations
"The St. Louis Public Library operates 17 libraries, including the main Central Library. Branches include Baden, Barr, Buder, Cabanne, Carondelet, Carpenter, Central Express, Charing Cross, Compton, Julia Davis, Divoli, Kingshighway, Machacek, Marketplace, Schlafly, and Walnut Park. In addition to the Central Library building, Barr, Cabanne, Carpenter and Carondelet branch buildings were Carnegie libraries." ~ Wikipedia
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