Parkway Central Library also known as Free Library or Central Library is the main public library building and administrative headquarters of the Free Library of Philadelphia system. It is the largest library, and only research library, of 54 library branches in the Free Library system. The library opened on Vine Street, Philadelphia in 1927. Four stories and the ground floor are open to the public. The main entrance steps are on Vine Street, between 19th and 20th Street.[2]
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William Pepper secured initial funding through a $225,000 bequest from his wealthy uncle, George S. Pepper, and chartered the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1891 as "a general library which shall be free to all". The first public library in Philadelphia was opened in March 1894. The initial library was located in three cramped rooms at City Hall, but moved on February 11 of the following year to the old Concert Hall at 1217-1221 Chestnut Street. Library officials criticized this second facility as "an entirely unsuitable building, where its work is done in unsafe, unsanitary and overcrowded quarters, temporary make-shifts". Fifteen years later the Library was moved again, on December 1, 1910, to the northeast corner of 13th and Locust Streets.
The library music department contains the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, the world's largest lending library of orchestral music consisting of over 21,000 titles and offers a research center into the lives of composers and conductors in the 19th and 20th century. The department holds the Drinker Collection which contains over 900 works of sacred and secular music for choral performances.[8]
Library Company of Philadelphia1314 Locust StreetA very fine special collection library. Please see About LCP and also Hours, Access, and Location. Admission to the Library Company (and their very fine exhibits) is free.
The Free Library of Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library is located at 1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-1116; 215.686.5423/5312; freelibrary.org. The Library roof terrace is accessible from the 4th floor of the central library Skyline room. For more information on this project contact Jim Pecora, Renovation/Expansion Project Manager, Philadelphia Free Library at: pecoraj@freelibrary.org or Fredda Lippes at 215.683.3656 and Fredda.Lippes@Phila.Gov.
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