PCAD - Los Angeles Public Library, Downtown Branch #2, Fifth Street and South Broadway

5th Street and South Broadway
Los Angeles, CA 90013

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Located in rented retail space, this downtown branch of the LAPL opened 06/01/1914. At the time, this library was large, circulating 1.6 million volumes a year. Rent cost $22,000 per year in a 50,000 square-foot, nine-story building at Fifth Street and Broadway.

PCAD id: 9800

Publications

Wheeler, Jospeh Lewis, "Temporary Quarters of the Los Angeles Public Library", Library and Its Home, 161-164, 1933.