400 Cathedral Street, (between West Franklin and Mulberry Streets) Baltimore, Maryland
Type
Free, (Municipal/State) Public Library
Established
1882/1886[1]
Branches
22[2]
Other information
Director
Heidi Daniel, President and CEO [3]
Website
www.prattlibrary.org
Building
Central Library
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Library building (second structure - built 1931-1933), Cathedral Street main entrance.
General information
Construction started
1931
Construction stopped
1933
The Enoch Pratt Free Library is the free public library system of Baltimore, Maryland. Its Central Library is located on 400 Cathedral Street (southbound) and occupies the northeastern three quarters of a city block bounded by West Franklin Street (U.S. Route 40 westbound) to the north, Cathedral Street to the east, West Mulberry Street (U.S. Route 40 eastbound) to the south, and Park Avenue (northbound) to the west. Located on historic Cathedral Hill, north of downtown, the library is also in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere-Mount Royal neighborhood and cultural and historic district.
The Cathedral Street Main Library is the flagship of the entire Enoch Pratt Free Library system, which includes twenty-one neighborhood branches, it was designated the "Maryland State Library Resource Center" by the General Assembly of Maryland in 1971.[1][2] Central Library operates as the state library for Maryland.
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