East Boston Library - CityLab Fall 2024 - East Boston - Research Guides at Boston Architectural College

Books & Resources - Circulating

Narrative arc: an open-plan, single-room branch library lends books and serves as a place for a young and diverse community to come together
Raskin, Laura
Architectural Record. 2015 March, v.203, n.3, p.102-107.
Library without walls: East Boston branch makes clear it's open to all
Campbell, Robert. Boston Globe, 02 Mar 2014.
"Light filters down from what looks like the sky but is in reality a roof of luminous, undulating cloudlike shapes. Down below at the floor, there are no walls or partitions. The whole space of the library, at least the part the public has access to, is one huge room."

1912 East Boston, Mass District Court And Public Library Branch Postcard. This postcard shows the 1st location for the East Boston Public Library.