Pio Pico branch began as a delivery station in 1900 after interest in a public reading room had been stimulated through efforts of the Pico Heights Improvement Association. The Pico Heights Book Club, organized in 1912, held many interesting meetings at the library rooms at 1312 El Molino Street, and community use of this branch made a permanent building imperative. A site was chosen at Connecticut and Oxford streets, one block from Western and Tenth. The building was completed in 1923, an attractive stucco one-story structure of simple Spanish design with tile roof. In 1925, due to the change of location and the tendency to name branches after individuals, the name was changed from "Pico Heights" to "Pio Pico". Information on border of print reads, "Made by Garnier Seymour Co., 134 S. Boylston, Trinity 0974, for calendar". Photo circa 1924.
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