Malabar Branch

Los Angeles, United States

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The Malabar Branch Library is a Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival building in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles that opened in May 1927. Designed by architect William Lee Woollett, it was constructed beginning in 1926 as one of fourteen new branch libraries funded by a voter-approved bond issue the previous year. The one-story brick structure, noted for its revival style evoking rural Latin America, replaced an earlier 1914 book depository that operated from a Sunday school room at the Brooklyn Heights Methodist Church. After suffering damage in the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake, the library was extensively renovated and reopened in 1992 with dedicated adult and children's reading rooms, a multipurpose space, and patron services area. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

Architect

William Lee Woollett

Movement

Mediterranean Revival architecture Spanish Colonial Revival architecture

Type: library, public library, library branch
Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Place: Los Angeles, United States

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