- City:
- Long Beach, CA
- Site Type:
- Libraries, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1933
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Lincoln Park Public Library was originally funded by the Carnegie Foundation and built in 1907. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) rehabilitated the library after it was damaged by the March 1933 Long Beach earthquake. It appears that the reconstruction was thorough (but confirmation is needed). The library was destroyed by a fire in 1972. Suzanne Miller’s series of WPA Federal Art Project (FAP) murals were relocated to the new Billie Jean King Main Library.
Source notes
Donald H. Connolly and G. I. Farman, Report of Accomplishments of the Operations Division, Works Progress Administration, Southern California, January 1, 1939.
Site originally submitted by Shaina Potts on May 4, 2010.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
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The “postcard” commentary has a typo: “rogue courts”–should be “roque courts”.
I have fond memories of the old library and its great librarians, and of old Lincoln Park.
They had a whole shelf of P. G. Wodehouse, all the Hornblower series, etc. etc. You’re lucky to find even one Wodehouse now in the new “best seller” libraries… I would trade all the computers for the old card catalogue in a heartbeat.