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
;B
;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, 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 ; 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
;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
;N
;O
  • Odd Fellows' Library
  • Old Colony Chapel Library
  • Osgood's Circulating Library
;P
;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
  • 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
;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
;Z
  • Zion Church Library