The Boyle Heights Branch was the fourth of six Los Angeles branch libraries constructed between 1913 and 1916 with a $210,000 Carnegie grant for all of the branches. W.J. Dodd designed this branch in the Classical Revival style. The Boyle Heights branch began with library groups established in 1891, which later became the Boyle Heights Library Association in 1899. During the 1920's the library began to focus on a wide variety of ethnic literature for its changing population of constituents. In the late 1920's the name of the building was changed to Benjamin Franklin branch to conform with the Board of Library Commissioners' naming policy. Councilman Art Snyder, and, director of branches, Marilyn Tamura, join others at demolition day of the Benjamin Franklin Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, January 20, 1974.
Snyder, Art Tamura, Marilyn Los Angeles Public Library.--Benjamin Franklin Branch City council members--California--Los Angeles Children--California--Los Angeles Librarians--California--Los Angeles Carnegie libraries--California--Los Angeles Branch libraries--California--Los Angeles Neoclassicism (Architecture)--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles) Lost architecture--California--Boyle Heights (Los Angeles) Group portraits Portrait photographs Dodd, William J.,1862-1930 Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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