Malabar Branch Library

	Malabar Branch
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 304
	Malabar Branch Library, 2008
Location	2801 Wabash Ave., Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34°3′2″N 118°11′47″W / 34.05056°N 118.19639°W
Built	1927
Architect	William L. Woollett
Architectural style	Mediterranean Revival-Spanish Colonial Revival
MPS	Los Angeles Branch Library System TR
NRHP reference No.	87001014
LAHCM No.	304
Added to NRHP	May 19, 1987

Malabar Branch Library is a branch library of the Los Angeles Public Library located in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California.

The Malabar Branch began in 1914 as a book depository in a Sunday school room at the Brooklyn Heights Methodist Church on the corner of Evergreen Avenue and Malabar Street. The original collection consisted of approximately 900 books that were checked out on the honor system.

In 1925, a bond issue was passed by Los Angeles voters providing funds for the construction of 14 new branch libraries, including the current Malabar Branch. Construction on the new Mediterranean Revival-Spanish Colonial Revival building started in 1926, and the new library was opened in May 1927. The building was designed by architect William Lee Woollett.

The Malabar Branch was damaged in the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake and was closed. The branch was extensively renovated and reopened in 1992 with separate reading rooms for adults and children, a multipurpose room and a patron services room.

In 1987, the Malabar Branch and several other branch libraries in Los Angeles were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic group submission.^[2] The application noted that the branch libraries had been constructed in a variety of period revival styles to house the initial branch library system of the City of Los Angeles. With respect to the Malabar Branch, the application described the building as a one-story, brick structure designed in a revival style reminiscent of rural Latin America.^[2]

The Malabar Branch is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ ^a ^b The Los Angeles Branch Library System TR Multiple Property Submission nomination explains 22 branch libraries but one, the University Branch, appears not to have been listed.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[Library-2] The Los Angeles Branch Library System TR Multiple Property Submission nomination explains 22 branch libraries but one, the University Branch, appears not to have been listed.

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