Memorial Park Library
Calgary, Canada

Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.
- Opening hours
- Mo-Th 10:00-20:00; Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 12:00-17:00
- Wheelchair access
- Accessible
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Memorial Park Library in Calgary, Alberta, is a Beaux-Arts public library completed in 1912 and designed by the architectural firm McLean & Wright. Built as a Carnegie library—part of the philanthropic library-building program that swept across North America in the early twentieth century—it now serves as a community branch of the Calgary Public Library. The building's classical styling reflects the Beaux-Arts tradition favored for civic institutions of its era. Recognized for its heritage significance, Memorial Park Library holds designation as both a provincial historic resource and a national historic site of Canada.
Architect
Movement
- Built
- Type
- public library, library building, Carnegie library
- Heritage
- provincial historic resource, national historic site of Canada
- Place
- Calgary, Canada
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