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Forest Park Branch Library

Name: Forest Park Branch Library
Address: 380 Belmont Avenue, Springfield, MA, 01108, US

380 Belmont Avenue

Springfield, MA 01108

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Forest Park neighborhood residents outgrew the provisional circulating library that was set up at Park Memorial Baptist Church and residents wanted a full service branch library. In 1908, industrialist Andrew Carnegie provided $50,000 for three branch libraries that included Forest Park Branch Library. Carnegie required that neighborhood citizens subscribe for land to match his donation of money for the building. Over 500 prominent Forest Park citizens subscribed for land and soon Forest Park Branch Library was completed in 1909.

The Forest Park Branch now offers wireless access.

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