Amelia Earhart Branch (North Hollywood Branch Library)
- Year
- 1929
- Style
- Mediterranean Vernacular
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The North Hollywood library at 5211 N. Tujunga Avenue opened in 1929 as the Sidney Lanier Branch, part of the tradition of naming Los Angeles branch libraries after literary figures. Built in the Mediterranean Revival style, it was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #302 in 1986 and added to the National Register of Historic Places the following year. It is now known as the Amelia Earhart Branch.
the building
From bookcases to branch. The library began as two bookcases in the corner of a Lankershim post office, then moved through a feed store at Lankershim Boulevard and Margate Street and a building on Margate Street before settling into larger quarters on Bakman Street en route to its current home.
the style
The 1929 building is designed in the Mediterranean Revival style typical of Los Angeles civic and library architecture of the period.
More on Mediterranean Vernacularsignificance
The building was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #302 on June 27, 1986, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
nearby
- Laurelwood Apartments
- Case Study House No. 1
- Campo de Cahuenga
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- Harpel House #1
- Polito House