• Source: 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
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




See also


Books in the United States
List of libraries in 18th century Massachusetts
List of booksellers in Boston




References






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




External links


Princeton University. Davies Project. American Libraries before 1876.

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