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Davis and Davis designed a Mediterranean Revival Styled building for this branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. This 5,760 square-foot branch opened in February 1928 and cost $35,000 for building equipment and books. The money was raised from the passage of a 1925 library bond issue in Los Angeles. The branch was designed to hold a maximum of 15,000 books.

A storefront was rented April 1925 to serve as the first Echo Park Branch Library at 1811 Temple Street, but it did not last more than three years before it was replaced by this David and Davis building.

This building was badly damaged in the 1971 Sylmar Earthqauke and declared unsafe for occupancy thereafter.

PCAD id: 7795