Nicetown-Tioga Branch

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Nicetown-Tioga Branch

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Item No: pdcf00338
Title: Nicetown-Tioga Branch
Additional Title: Interior view of the Nicetown Branch, ca. 1917
Historic Street Address: 1715 Hunting Park Avenue
Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

 The Nicetown Branch opened in 1897, in the converted Pfund's Hall at 4015 Germantown Avenue. In 1917, the branch was relocated to a new building at 1715 Hunting Park Avenue, becoming the 20th Free Library branch funded by Andrew Carnegie. The first floor consisted of a large main room (seen in this ca. 1917 image) and a children’s room, which doubled as a lecture room that could seat 300 people.  The basement had a small office, staff room, classroom, magazine room, kitchen, two toilets, chair storage, boiler room, and coal bin.

The branch relocated again in 1958, to a converted Linton's Restaurant, when it was renamed the Nicetown-Tioga Branch (and subsequently remodeled in 1961).

The Nicetown-Tioga Branch serves the communities of Nicetown and Tioga, situated close to the Erie station of the Broad Street Subway.


Creation Year: ca. 1917
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.155611
Geocode Latitude:40.015117

Creator Name: Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 - Photographer

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