The Portland Public Library is the name of the public library system for Portland, Maine, USA. It is also the name of the city's main library which is located at 5 Monument Square on Congress Street in the Old Port neighborhood of Portland. The system also has three neighborhood branch locations: Burbank Branch, Peaks Island Branch, and Riverton Branch.
The Portland Athenaeum (1826-1876) in Portland, Maine, was a subscription library incorporated in 1826 by "Ichabod Nichols, Edward Payson, Albion K. Parris, Prentiss Mellen, William P. Preble, Ashur Ware, Stephen Longfellow, Nicholas Emery, Isaac Adams, Simon Greenleaf, Joseph Adams, William Willis, William B. Sewall, Charles S. Daveis, Robert Ilsley, Andrew L. Emerson, John Mussey, William Swan, Alford Richardson, Barrett Potter, Eliphalet Greely, James C. Churchill, George Warren, Nathaniel Mitchell, Benjamin Willis, Jeremiah Haskell, Oliver Gerrish, Joseph Harrod, Jacob Knight, Henry Smith [and] William Wood." As gratefully noted in a local newspaper in 1826:
Early supporters included Stephen Longfellow (father of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), and William Willis. By 1856, the Athenaeum had "160 proprietors and ... a library, in the hall second story of the Canal Bank building [on Middle Street], of 8,500 volumes." James Merrill served as librarian, ca.1850.
"In 1861 the corporation erected a neat brick building ... on a lot previously purchased in Plum street. The building measures on the ground sixty-six feet by thirty-six; the principal or library room is forty feet long by thirty-four feet wide, and twenty feet high. There are two ante-rooms on the lower floor and two rooms above for the various uses of the society." "The number of bound volumes it contained in October, 1864, was ten thousand six hundred and forty-seven, beside pamphlets." However, in 1866 the Athenaeum lost its collection in a fire. In 1876 it merged with the "Portland Institute and Public Library" to form "a Free Public Library."
Construction of the main library building located at 5 Monument Square was completed in 1979. Phase One of a major renovation of the main building by Scott Simons Architects was completed in 2010.
Coordinates: 43°39′28″N 70°15′33″W / 43.65770°N 70.25910°W / 43.65770; -70.25910
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