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The New Thomas Paine Research Library at our offices in Pasadena will house books by and about Thomas

Home to the system’s Armenian language collection, Santa Catalina is one of the oldest branch libraries in the Pasadena system, dating back to 1913. The present branch building ope...

The last Pasadena Public Library Branch to be founded, the Hastings Branch building opened its doors on February 17, 1959. Its creation completed Pasadena’s plan to bring library s...

The first Lamanda Park Branch opened in 1922, in a small room in Emerson School.The current building, designed by Pulliam, Zimmerman and Matthews, Architects and Planners, was comp...

La Pintoresca ("the picturesque") Branch Library, built in 1930, was named for the hotel which had previously occupied its northwest Pasadena site. Today, we also serve as a commun...

Financed by a 1956 bond issue that also funded the Hastings and San Rafael Branches, the Linda Vista Branch Library opened in 1957.

This page provides updates on the Little Free Library at the Lyon-Hartley house on Hudson Avenue in the Madison Heights neighborhood of Pasadena, California, and other community ev...

Pasadena’s Central Library was designed by the firm of Myron Hunt and H.C. Chambers, the architects of the Huntington Library and Occidental College. The Pasadena Central Library i...

The remodeled Allendale Branch building, created as an isolation hospital in the 1920s, opened for li

The San Rafael Branch Library opened on July 31, 1957, adding on a meeting room ten years later. The

This branch, the oldest in the Pasadena Public Library system, was designed by Marston, Van Pelt and