List of libraries in 19th-century Boston

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.

List of libraries

A
B
C
  • Campbell's Circulating Library[2]
  • Carney Hospital Library[2]
  • Carter's Circulating Library[2][12]
  • Callender's Library, School St.; also known as the Shakespeare Library; Charles Callender, H.G. Callender[3][12][16]
  • Charlestown High School Library[2]
  • Christ Church Library[2]
  • Christian Unity Library[2]
  • Church Home for Orphans Library[2]
  • Church of the Advent Library[2]
  • City Point Circulating Library[2]
  • Clarendon Library, Clarendon St.[6]
  • W.B. Clarke's circulating library[12]
  • Columbian Circulating Library, no.43 Cornhill
  • Columbian Social Library (est.1813), Boylston Hall[17][18]
  • Comer's Commercial College[1]
  • Congregational Library & Archives,[2] corner of Beacon and Somerset[1][6]
  • Consumptives' Home Library[2]
D
  • Deaf Mute Library Association[2]
  • Democratic reading room, corner Congress St. and Congress Sq.[3]
  • Dorchester Athenaeum Library[2]
  • Dramatic Fund Association[1]
  • J.H. Duclos & Bro., no.57 Warren St.[6]
E
  • East Boston Library Association[1]
  • Ministerial Library of Eliot Church[2]
F
  • Caroline Fanning[19]
  • Farrer's Circulating Library[2]
  • First Christian Church Library[2]
  • First Universalist Church Library[2]
  • Frederick Fletcher, no.55 Meridian, East Boston[20]
  • Franklin Circulating Library, no.69 Court St.[21]
  • Franklin Typographical Society Library[1][2]
G
  • Gate of Heaven Church Library[2]
  • Library of the General Court[1]
  • General Theological Library (est.1860);[2][12] no.12 West St.[6]
  • Gill's Circulating Library[2]
  • Good Samaritan Church Library[2]
  • Grand Lodge of Masons Library[2]
  • Grant & Brown, no.873 Washington St.[6]
  • Guild Library of Church of the Advent[2]
H
  • Halliday's Circulating Library, West St.[2][5]
  • Hancock Library, 42 Hancock; A. Boyden[22]
  • Handel and Haydn Library[1]
  • Harvard Chapel Library[2]
  • Harvard Musical Library[2]
  • Medical College of Harvard University Library[2]
  • C.W. Holbrook's circulating library; no.88 Dover[6]
  • Holy Trinity Church Library[2]
  • Home for Aged Women Library[2]
  • House of Correction Library[2]
  • House of Industry Library[2]
  • House of Reformation Library[2]
J
  • Jamaica Plain Circulating Library[2]
  • Joy Street Baptist Church Library[2]
K
  • Keating's Circulating Library;[2] no.1027 Washington St.[6]
  • King's Chapel Library[1]
L
  • Ladies Circulating Library, Washington St.; N. Nutting, proprietor[19]
  • Lawrence Association Library[2]
  • R.L. Learned's circulating library, Tremont St.[5]
  • Lincoln School Library[2]
  • Lindsay's Circulating Library;[2] George W. Lindsey, Washington St.[20]
  • Liscomb's Circulating Library[2]
  • Loring's Circulating Library;[2] Loring's Select Library, Washington St.;[20] A.K. Loring[12]
  • A.F. Low's circulating library, Meridian St.[5]
  • Lowe's Circulating Library[2]
M
N
O
P
Q
  • Quinn's Circulating Library[2]
R
  • Lydia Reed[19]
  • Republican Institution[1]
  • Republican Reading Room, Bromfield St.[20]
  • E.R. Rich & Son; no.477 West Broadway[6]
  • Roxbury Athenaeum Library[2]
  • Roxbury High School Library[2]
S
  • Sage's Circulating Library;[2] William Sage, no.371 Tremont[6]
  • Sailors Home Library[2]
  • School of Technology Library[2]
  • Second Methodist Church Library[2]
  • W.F. & M.H. Shattuck, no.106 Main[6]
  • Shawmut Avenue Baptist Church Library[2]
  • Shawmut Mission Library[2]
  • Social Law Library[2]
  • Society to Encourage Studies at Home
  • South End Circulating Library[2]
  • Mary Sprague's circulating library, no.9 Milk St.[12][28]
  • St. Francis de Sales Church Library[2]
  • St. Joseph Circulating Library[2]
  • St. Mary's Young Men's Sodality Library[2]
  • St. Stephen's Church Library[2]
  • State Agricultural Library[2]
  • Stoughton Street Church Library[2]
  • Suffolk Circulating Library; corner of Court and Brattle St.; N.S. Simpkins, J. Simpkins[29]
  • Sumner library, no.6 Winthrop block, East Boston[20]

T

U
V
  • Village Church Library[2]
  • Vine Street Congregational Church Library[2]
W
  • Walker's Circulating Library[2]
  • J.B. Walker, no.1392 Tremont[6]
  • Thomas O. Walker, no.68 Cornhill[3][5][12]
  • Warren Street Chapel Library[2]
  • Washington Circulating Library, no.38 Newbury St.[31]
  • Washington Circulating Library, no.11 School St.[32]
  • Washingtonian Home Library[2]
  • West Boston Library, Cambridge St.[12]
  • West Church Library[2]
  • West Roxbury Free library, Centre St.[6]
  • West Roxbury High School Library[2]
  • Whig reading room, no.144 Washington St.[3]
  • Winkley & Boyd's Central library[20]
  • Workingmen's Reading Room
Y
Z
  • Zion Church Library[2]

See also

References

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  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Boston Directory ... 1848.
  4. ^ Boston Directory. 1813
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Boston almanac and business directory: 1878
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Boston Almanac and Directory ... 1876.
  7. ^ Catalogue of W.P. & L. Blake's circulating library at the Boston Book-Store, no.1, Cornhill (Boston: William P. and Lemuel Blake, 1800)
  8. ^ Also called the "Circulating and Consulting Library for the Officers and Employees of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company;" cf. "Railroad Libraries." Journal of social science: containing the Transactions of the American Association, no.2. 1870
  9. ^ Boston Mirror, Dec. 17, 1808
  10. ^ Boston Patriot, March 31, 1810
  11. ^ a b Boston Directory. 1810
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Charles K. Bolton (February 1907). "Circulating Libraries in Boston, 1765-1865". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. 11. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
  13. ^ Boston Directory. 1858
  14. ^ a b c Boston Directory. 1850
  15. ^ Boston Directory. 1805
  16. ^ Boston Directory. 1818
  17. ^ Catalog of Books in the Columbian Social Library. Boston: 1818
  18. ^ Bowen's Picture of Boston, 3rd ed. 1838.
  19. ^ a b c David Kaser (1980), A book for a sixpence, Pittsburgh: Beta Phi Mu, ISBN 0-910230-14-5, OL 4402878M, 0910230145
  20. ^ a b c d e f g h i Boston Directory ... 1868.
  21. ^ Columbian Centinel, Feb. 12, 1823
  22. ^ Boston Almanac. 1847
  23. ^ "Mariner's House, North Square." Dearborn's Reminiscences of Boston. Boston: N. Dearborn, 1851
  24. ^ Goodrich. The family tourist. 1848
  25. ^ ca.1820 advertisement in: American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1
  26. ^ Boston Directory. 1852
  27. ^ Catalogue of the library of Rev. Thomas Prince: former pastor of Old South Church. Presented by him to the Old South Church and Society. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1846
  28. ^ Independent Chronicle, May 17, 1802; cf. Bolton
  29. ^ Boston Daily Advertiser, July 17, 1822
  30. ^ Boston Daily Advertiser, Aug. 23, 1815
  31. ^ Catalog of the Washington Circulating Library, Boston. 1817
  32. ^ Catalog of the Washington Circulating Library, Boston. 1833

Further reading

  • Bacon's dictionary of Boston. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1886.
  • Charles K. Bolton (April 1909). "Social Libraries in Boston". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.
  • Jesse Hauk Shera (1949), Foundations of the public library: The Origins Of The Public Library Movement In New England 1629-1855, Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, OCLC 575422, OL 6048468M
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