# List of libraries in 19th-century Boston

This list includes libraries located in Boston, Massachusetts, active in the 19th century. Included are reading-rooms, circulating libraries, subscription libraries, public libraries, academic libraries, medical libraries, children's libraries, church libraries, and government libraries.

## List of libraries
### A

* Adjutant-General's Library
* Almshouse Library
* American Academy of Arts and Sciences Library
* American Baptist Union Library
* American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Library, Mission House, Pemberton Square
* American Institute of Instruction Library
* American Peace Society Library
* American Statistical Association Library
* American Unitarian Association
* Mary Ashley, no.124 Charles St.
* Asylum and Farm School Library

### B

* Backup's Circulating Library
* Luke Baker's circulating library, no.69 Court St.
* Berkeley Circulating Library
* Bigelow School Library
* Bixby's Circulating Library; L.W. Bixby, Washington St.
* William Pinson Blake and Lemuel Blake, circulating library at the Boston Book-Store, no.1, Cornhill
* Board of Trade Library
* Boston and Albany Railroad Library (est.1868)
* Boston Art Club Library
* Boston Athenaeum
* Boston Circulating Library, no.3 School St.; E. Penniman Jr.; no.5 Cornhill-Square
* Boston City Hospital Library
* Boston College Library
* Boston Library Society
* Boston Lunatic Hospital Library
* Boston Medical Library (1805-1826)
* Boston Medical Library (est. 1875)
* Boston Public Library
* Boston Society for Medical Improvement
* Boston Society of Natural History Library
* Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church Library
* Boston Theological Library
* Boston Turnverein Library
* Boston University
** Boston University Library
** Boston University School of Medicine Library
** Boston University Theological Library
* Boston Young Men's Christian Union Library, no.20 Boylston
* Bowditch Library
* Bowdoin Literary Association
* Boylston Library
* Brattle Square Church Library
* Broadway Circulating Library
* Bromfield Street Church Library
* Eliza Brown, circulating library
* Bulfinch Place Chapel Library
* Burnham & Bros., no.60 Cornhill; Thomas Burnham, Perry Burnham
* Kezia Butler, no.82 Newbury Street

### C

* Campbell's Circulating Library
* Carney Hospital Library
* Carter's Circulating Library
* Callender's Library, School St.; also known as the Shakespeare Library; Charles Callender, H.G. Callender
* Charlestown High School Library
* Christ Church Library
* Christian Unity Library
* Church Home for Orphans Library
* Church of the Advent Library
* City Point Circulating Library
* Clarendon Library, Clarendon St.
* W.B. Clarke's circulating library
* Columbian Circulating Library, no.43 Cornhill
* Columbian Social Library (est.1813), Boylston Hall
* Comer's Commercial College
* Congregational Library & Archives, corner of Beacon and Somerset
* Consumptives' Home Library

### D

* Deaf Mute Library Association
* Democratic reading room, corner Congress St. and Congress Sq.
* Dorchester Athenaeum Library
* Dramatic Fund Association
* J.H. Duclos & Bro., no.57 Warren St.

### E

* East Boston Library Association
* Ministerial Library of Eliot Church

### F

* Caroline Fanning
* Farrer's Circulating Library
* First Christian Church Library
* First Universalist Church Library
* Frederick Fletcher, no.55 Meridian, East Boston
* Franklin Circulating Library, no.69 Court St.
* Franklin Typographical Society Library

### G

* Gate of Heaven Church Library
* Library of the General Court
* General Theological Library (est.1860); no.12 West St.
* Gill's Circulating Library
* Good Samaritan Church Library
* Grand Lodge of Masons Library
* Grant & Brown, no.873 Washington St.
* Guild Library of Church of the Advent

### H

* Halliday's Circulating Library, West St.
* Hancock Library, 42 Hancock; A. Boyden
* Handel and Haydn Library
* Harvard Chapel Library
* Harvard Musical Library
* Medical College of Harvard University Library
* C.W. Holbrook's circulating library; no.88 Dover
* Holy Trinity Church Library
* Home for Aged Women Library
* House of Correction Library
* House of Industry Library
* House of Reformation Library

### J

* Jamaica Plain Circulating Library
* Joy Street Baptist Church Library

### K

* Keating's Circulating Library; no.1027 Washington St.
* King's Chapel Library

### L

* Ladies Circulating Library, Washington St.; N. Nutting, proprietor
* Lawrence Association Library
* R.L. Learned's circulating library, Tremont St.
* Lincoln School Library
* Lindsay's Circulating Library; George W. Lindsey, Washington St.
* Liscomb's Circulating Library
* Loring's Circulating Library; Loring's Select Library, Washington St.; A.K. Loring
* A.F. Low's circulating library, Meridian St.
* Lowe's Circulating Library

### M

* Marine Board of Underwriters' Library
* Mariners' Exchange reading room, no.1 Lewis
* Mariner's House, North Square
* Thomas Marsh's circulating library, Beach St.
* Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
* Massachusetts Historical Society
* Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library
* Massachusetts Hospital
* Massachusetts New Church Union Library
* Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Youth
* Massachusetts Society for Promotion of Agriculture
* Massachusetts State Library
* Massachusetts State Prison Library
* Massachusetts Teachers' Association
* Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society Library
* Mayhew and Baker's Juvenile Circulating Library, no.208 Washington St.
* McGrath's Circulating Library
* Mechanic Apprentices Library Association
* J.O. Mendum's circulating library, Tremont St.
* Mercantile Library Association Library
* Merchants Exchange reading room, Merchants Exchange building, State St.; "basement, Old State House"
* Merrill's Circulating Library; C.H. Merrill, no.1575 Washington St.
* Methodist Episcopal Church Library
* Catherine Moore's circulating library, no.436 Washington St.
* Mount Vernon Church Library
* Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies
* Munroe & Francis, juvenile library, no.4 Cornhill
* Musical Society Library

### N

* New England Conservatory of Music Library
* New England Female Medical College
* New England Historic Genealogical Society
* New England Hospital Library
* New England Methodist Historical Society
* Norcross School Library
* North End Circulating Library, no.123 Hanover St.; Thomas Hiller Jr.
* Notre Dame Academy Library

### O

* Odd Fellows' Library
* Old Colony Chapel Library
* Osgood's Circulating Library

### P

* Paine's Circulating Library
* Samuel H. Parker's circulating library
* H.B. Payne & Co.'s circulating library
* Elizabeth Peabody's foreign circulating library, no.13 West St.
* William Pelham's circulating library, no.59 Cornhill
* Penitent Female Refuge Society Library
* F.W. Perkins' circulating library
* Library of Perkins Institution for the Blind
* Pioneer Circulating Library
* Prince Library

### Q

* Quinn's Circulating Library

### R

* Lydia Reed
* Republican Institution
* Republican Reading Room, Bromfield St.
* E.R. Rich & Son; no.477 West Broadway
* Roxbury Athenaeum Library
* Roxbury High School Library

### S

* Sage's Circulating Library; William Sage, no.371 Tremont
* Sailors Home Library
* School of Technology Library
* Second Methodist Church Library
* W.F. & M.H. Shattuck, no.106 Main
* Shawmut Avenue Baptist Church Library
* Shawmut Mission Library
* Social Law Library
* Society to Encourage Studies at Home
* South End Circulating Library
* Mary Sprague's circulating library, no.9 Milk St.
* St. Francis de Sales Church Library
* St. Joseph Circulating Library
* St. Mary's Young Men's Sodality Library
* St. Stephen's Church Library
* State Agricultural Library
* Stoughton Street Church Library
* Suffolk Circulating Library; corner of Court and Brattle St.; N.S. Simpkins, J. Simpkins
* Sumner library, no.6 Winthrop block, East Boston
T
* Teuthorn's Circulating Library; Julius Teuthorn, no.10 Beach
* George Ticknor's private library, no.8 Park St.
* Toll-Gate Circulating Library, no.665 East Broadway
* D.A. Tompkins, no.127 Hanover St.
* Treadwell Library, Massachusetts General Hospital

### U

* Union Circulating Library, no.4 Cornhill, corner of Water St.; William Blagrove
* Union Mission Church Library
* Unitarian Association Library
* S.R. Urbino, foreign circulating library

### V

* Village Church Library
* Vine Street Congregational Church Library

### W

* Walker's Circulating Library
* J.B. Walker, no.1392 Tremont
* Thomas O. Walker, no.68 Cornhill
* Warren Street Chapel Library
* Washington Circulating Library, no.38 Newbury St.
* Washington Circulating Library, no.11 School St.
* Washingtonian Home Library
* West Boston Library, Cambridge St.
* West Church Library
* West Roxbury Free library, Centre St.
* West Roxbury High School Library
* Whig reading room, no.144 Washington St.
* Winkley & Boyd's Central library
* Workingmen's Reading Room

### Y

* Boston Young Men's Christian Association Library (YMCA), Tremont Temple
* Young Men's Christian Union
* Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), no.68 Warrenton
* Young Men's Working Association Library

### Z

* Zion Church Library