Lincoln Heights Branch Library
- Architect
- Hibbard & Cody
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
Lincoln Heights Branch Library, at 2530 Workman Street, is the second-oldest branch in the Los Angeles Public Library system, built in 1916 in the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival styles using part of a $210,000 gift Andrew Carnegie gave the library system in 1911 to fund six new branches. Architects Lester H. Hibbard and H.B. Cody modeled the design on Villa Papa Giulia near Rome. It is one of only three surviving Carnegie libraries in Los Angeles.
the building
Modeled on a Roman villa. Hibbard and Cody based the design on the Italian Renaissance villa Papa Giulia near Rome, translating a Roman country house into a Carnegie-funded neighborhood branch library.
the style
Built in the Classical Revival and Italian Renaissance Revival styles, the library announces its Carnegie funding with the borrowed grandeur of an Italian villa rather than the plainer look of many contemporary branch libraries.
More on Neoclassicalthe architect
Lester H. Hibbard and H.B. Cody designed the building together as Hibbard & Cody; no further biographical detail is recorded here.
significance
Designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #261 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1983, as one of three surviving Carnegie-funded libraries in Los Angeles.
nearby
- Lincoln Heights Jail
- Mount Pleasant House
- Richard Henry Dana Branch
- Ziegler Estate
- Terminal Annex
- Southwest Museum of the American Indian