Two stories were added to the Consolidated Bank building in 1889 and the library rented rooms on the fourth floor for $150 per month. According to an article in "The Golden Era" in April of 1890, "The main room is 50 x 90 feet, with twenty-six windows...by night a multitude of electric jets illumine the room. The book shelves are separated from the two reading rooms - one for each sex - by a brass lattice." In 1893 finances forced the move of the Library to rooms over the Post Office (Seventh and F Street) and in 1898 to the fifth floor of the Keating Building on Fifth and F. Title supplied by cataloger.
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