List of libraries in 19th-century Boston facts for kids
This list includes libraries located in Boston, Massachusetts, active in the 19th century. Included are reading-rooms, circulating libraries, subscription libraries, public libraries, academic libraries, medical libraries, children's libraries, church libraries, and government libraries.
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List of libraries
Library in house of George Ticknor and his daughter Anna Ticknor, Park St., Boston, ca.1890s
- A
- Adjutant-General's Library
- Almshouse Library
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences Library
- American Baptist Union Library
- American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Library, Mission House, Pemberton Square
- American Institute of Instruction Library
- American Peace Society Library
- American Statistical Association Library
- American Unitarian Association
- Mary Ashley, no.124 Charles St.
- Asylum and Farm School Library
- B
- Backup's Circulating Library
- Luke Baker's circulating library, no.69 Court St.
- Berkeley Circulating Library
- Bigelow School Library
- Bixby's Circulating Library; L.W. Bixby, Washington St.
- William Pinson Blake and Lemuel Blake, circulating library at the Boston Book-Store, no.1, Cornhill
- Board of Trade Library
- Boston and Albany Railroad Library (est.1868)
- Boston Art Club Library
- Boston Athenaeum
- Boston Circulating Library, no.3 School St.; E. Penniman Jr.; no.5 Cornhill-Square
- Boston City Hospital Library
- Boston College Library
- Boston Library Society
- Boston Lunatic Hospital Library
- Boston Medical Library (1805-1826)
- Boston Medical Library (est. 1875)
- Boston Public Library
- Boston Society for Medical Improvement
- Boston Society of Natural History Library
- Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church Library
- Boston Theological Library
- Boston Turnverein Library
- Boston University
- Boston University Library
- Boston University School of Medicine Library
- Boston University Theological Library
- Boston Young Men's Christian Union Library, no.20 Boylston
- Bowditch Library
- Bowdoin Literary Association
- Boylston Library
- Brattle Square Church Library
- Broadway Circulating Library
- Bromfield Street Church Library
- Eliza Brown, circulating library
- Bulfinch Place Chapel Library
- Burnham & Bros., no.60 Cornhill; Thomas Burnham, Perry Burnham
- Kezia Butler, no.82 Newbury Street
- C
- Campbell's Circulating Library
- Carney Hospital Library
- Carter's Circulating Library
- Callender's Library, School St.; also known as the Shakespeare Library; Charles Callender, H.G. Callender
- Charlestown High School Library
- Christ Church Library
- Christian Unity Library
- Church Home for Orphans Library
- Church of the Advent Library
- City Point Circulating Library
- Clarendon Library, Clarendon St.
- W.B. Clarke's circulating library
- Columbian Circulating Library, no.43 Cornhill
- Columbian Social Library (est.1813), Boylston Hall
- Comer's Commercial College
- Congregational Library & Archives, corner of Beacon and Somerset
- Consumptives' Home Library
- D
- Deaf Mute Library Association
- Democratic reading room, corner Congress St. and Congress Sq.
- Dorchester Athenaeum Library
- Dramatic Fund Association
- J.H. Duclos & Bro., no.57 Warren St.
- E
- East Boston Library Association
- Ministerial Library of Eliot Church
- F
- Caroline Fanning
- Farrer's Circulating Library
- First Christian Church Library
- First Universalist Church Library
- Frederick Fletcher, no.55 Meridian, East Boston
- Franklin Circulating Library, no.69 Court St.
- Franklin Typographical Society Library
- G
- Gate of Heaven Church Library
- Library of the General Court
- General Theological Library (est.1860); no.12 West St.
- Gill's Circulating Library
- Good Samaritan Church Library
- Grand Lodge of Masons Library
- Grant & Brown, no.873 Washington St.
- Guild Library of Church of the Advent
- H
- Halliday's Circulating Library, West St.
- Hancock Library, 42 Hancock; A. Boyden
- Handel and Haydn Library
- Harvard Chapel Library
- Harvard Musical Library
- Medical College of Harvard University Library
- C.W. Holbrook's circulating library; no.88 Dover
- Holy Trinity Church Library
- Home for Aged Women Library
- House of Correction Library
- House of Industry Library
- House of Reformation Library
- J
- Jamaica Plain Circulating Library
- Joy Street Baptist Church Library
- K
- Keating's Circulating Library; no.1027 Washington St.
- King's Chapel Library
- L
- Ladies Circulating Library, Washington St.; N. Nutting, proprietor
- Lawrence Association Library
- R.L. Learned's circulating library, Tremont St.
- Lincoln School Library
- Lindsay's Circulating Library; George W. Lindsey, Washington St.
- Liscomb's Circulating Library
- Loring's Circulating Library; Loring's Select Library, Washington St.; A.K. Loring
- A.F. Low's circulating library, Meridian St.
- Lowe's Circulating Library
- M
- Marine Board of Underwriters' Library
- Mariners' Exchange reading room, no.1 Lewis
- Mariner's House, North Square
- Thomas Marsh's circulating library, Beach St.
- Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
- Massachusetts Historical Society
- Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library
- Massachusetts Hospital
- Massachusetts New Church Union Library
- Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Youth
- Massachusetts Society for Promotion of Agriculture
- Massachusetts State Library
- Massachusetts State Prison Library
- Massachusetts Teachers' Association
- Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society Library
- Mayhew and Baker's Juvenile Circulating Library, no.208 Washington St.
- McGrath's Circulating Library
- Mechanic Apprentices Library Association
- J.O. Mendum's circulating library, Tremont St.
- Mercantile Library Association Library
- Merchants Exchange reading room, Merchants Exchange building, State St.; "basement, Old State House"
- Merrill's Circulating Library; C.H. Merrill, no.1575 Washington St.
- Methodist Episcopal Church Library
- Catherine Moore's circulating library, no.436 Washington St.
- Mount Vernon Church Library
- Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies
- Munroe & Francis, juvenile library, no.4 Cornhill
- Musical Society Library
- N
- New England Conservatory of Music Library
- New England Female Medical College
- New England Historic Genealogical Society
- New England Hospital Library
- New England Methodist Historical Society
- Norcross School Library
- North End Circulating Library, no.123 Hanover St.; Thomas Hiller Jr.
- Notre Dame Academy Library
- O
- Odd Fellows' Library
- Old Colony Chapel Library
- Osgood's Circulating Library
- P
- Paine's Circulating Library
- Samuel H. Parker's circulating library
- H.B. Payne & Co.'s circulating library
- Elizabeth Peabody's foreign circulating library, no.13 West St.
- William Pelham's circulating library, no.59 Cornhill
- Penitent Female Refuge Society Library
- F.W. Perkins' circulating library
- Library of Perkins Institution for the Blind
- Pioneer Circulating Library
- Prince Library
- Q
- Quinn's Circulating Library
- R
- Lydia Reed
- Republican Institution
- Republican Reading Room, Bromfield St.
- E.R. Rich & Son; no.477 West Broadway
- Roxbury Athenaeum Library
- Roxbury High School Library
- S
- Sage's Circulating Library; William Sage, no.371 Tremont
- Sailors Home Library
- School of Technology Library
- Second Methodist Church Library
- W.F. & M.H. Shattuck, no.106 Main
- Shawmut Avenue Baptist Church Library
- Shawmut Mission Library
- Social Law Library
- Society to Encourage Studies at Home
- South End Circulating Library
- Mary Sprague's circulating library, no.9 Milk St.
- St. Francis de Sales Church Library
- St. Joseph Circulating Library
- St. Mary's Young Men's Sodality Library
- St. Stephen's Church Library
- State Agricultural Library
- Stoughton Street Church Library
- Suffolk Circulating Library; corner of Court and Brattle St.; N.S. Simpkins, J. Simpkins
- Sumner library, no.6 Winthrop block, East Boston
T
- Teuthorn's Circulating Library; Julius Teuthorn, no.10 Beach
- George Ticknor's private library, no.8 Park St.
- Toll-Gate Circulating Library, no.665 East Broadway
- D.A. Tompkins, no.127 Hanover St.
- Treadwell Library, Massachusetts General Hospital
- U
- Union Circulating Library, no.4 Cornhill, corner of Water St.; William Blagrove
- Union Mission Church Library
- Unitarian Association Library
- S.R. Urbino, foreign circulating library
- V
- Village Church Library
- Vine Street Congregational Church Library
- W
- Walker's Circulating Library
- J.B. Walker, no.1392 Tremont
- Thomas O. Walker, no.68 Cornhill
- Warren Street Chapel Library
- Washington Circulating Library, no.38 Newbury St.
- Washington Circulating Library, no.11 School St.
- Washingtonian Home Library
- West Boston Library, Cambridge St.
- West Church Library
- West Roxbury Free library, Centre St.
- West Roxbury High School Library
- Whig reading room, no.144 Washington St.
- Winkley & Boyd's Central library
- Workingmen's Reading Room
- Y
- Boston Young Men's Christian Association Library (YMCA), Tremont Temple
- Young Men's Christian Union
- Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), no.68 Warrenton
- Young Men's Working Association Library
- Z
- Zion Church Library
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