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 Adjutant-General's Library Almshouse Library American Academy of Arts and Sciences Library American Baptist Union Library American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Library, Mission House, Pemberton Square American Institute of Instruction Library American Peace Society Library American Statistical Association Library American Unitarian Association Mary Ashley, no.124 Charles St. Asylum and Farm School Library B Backup's Circulating Library Luke Baker's circulating library, no.69 Court St.Boston Directory. 1813 Berkeley Circulating LibraryBoston almanac and business directory: 1878 Bigelow School Library Bixby's Circulating Library; L.W. Bixby, Washington St. William Pinson Blake and Lemuel Blake, circulating library at the Boston Book-Store, no.1, CornhillCatalogue of W.P. & L. Blake's circulating library at the Boston Book-Store, no.1, Cornhill (Boston: William P. and Lemuel Blake, 1800) Board of Trade Library Boston and Albany Railroad Library (est.1868)Also called the "Circulating and Consulting Library for the Officers and Employees of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company;" cf. "Railroad Libraries." Journal of social science: containing the Transactions of the American Association, no.2. 1870 Boston Art Club Library Boston Athenaeum Boston Circulating Library, no.3 School St.; E. Penniman Jr.;Boston Mirror, Dec. 17, 1808 no.5 Cornhill-SquareBoston Patriot, March 31, 1810 Boston City Hospital Library Boston College Library Boston Library Society Boston Lunatic Hospital Library Boston Medical Library (1805-1826)Boston Directory. 1810 Boston Medical Library (est. 1875) Boston Public Library Boston Society for Medical Improvement Boston Society of Natural History Library Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church Library Boston Theological Library Boston Turnverein Library Boston University Boston University Library Boston University School of Medicine Library Boston University Theological Library Boston Young Men's Christian Union Library, no.20 Boylston Bowditch Library Bowdoin Literary Association Boylston Library Brattle Square Church Library Broadway Circulating Library Bromfield Street Church Library Eliza Brown, circulating libraryBoston Directory. 1858 Bulfinch Place Chapel Library Burnham & Bros., no.60 Cornhill;Boston Directory. 1850 Thomas Burnham, Perry Burnham Kezia Butler, no.82 Newbury StreetBoston Directory. 1805 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. CallenderBoston Directory. 1818 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 (est.1813), Boylston HallCatalog of Books in the Columbian Social Library. Boston: 1818Bowen's Picture of Boston, 3rd ed. 1838. 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.Columbian Centinel, Feb. 12, 1823 Franklin Typographical Society Library G Gate of Heaven Church Library Library of the General Court General Theological Library (est.1860); 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 Halliday's Circulating Library, West St. Hancock Library, 42 Hancock; A. BoydenBoston Almanac. 1847 Handel and Haydn Library Harvard Chapel Library Harvard Musical Library Medical College of Harvard University Library C.W. Holbrook's circulating library; no.88 Dover Holy Trinity Church Library Home for Aged Women Library House of Correction Library House of Industry Library House of Reformation Library 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 Marine Board of Underwriters' Library Mariners' Exchange reading room, no.1 Lewis Mariner's House, North Square"Mariner's House, North Square." Dearborn's Reminiscences of Boston. Boston: N. Dearborn, 1851 Thomas Marsh's circulating library, Beach St. Massachusetts College of Pharmacy Massachusetts Historical Society Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library Massachusetts Hospital Massachusetts New Church Union Library Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-minded Youth Massachusetts Society for Promotion of Agriculture Massachusetts State Library Massachusetts State Prison Library Massachusetts Teachers' Association Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society Library Mayhew and Baker's Juvenile Circulating Library, no.208 Washington St. McGrath's Circulating Library Mechanic Apprentices Library Association J.O. Mendum's circulating library, Tremont St. Mercantile Library Association Library Merchants Exchange reading room, Merchants Exchange building, State St.;Goodrich. The family tourist. 1848 "basement, Old State House" Merrill's Circulating Library; C.H. Merrill, no.1575 Washington St. Methodist Episcopal Church Library Catherine Moore's circulating library, no.436 Washington St. Mount Vernon Church Library Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies Munroe & Francis, juvenile library, no.4 Cornhillca.1820 advertisement in: American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1 Musical Society Library

N New England Conservatory of Music Library New England Female Medical College New England Historic Genealogical Society New England Hospital Library New England Methodist Historical Society Norcross School Library North End Circulating Library, no.123 Hanover St.; Thomas Hiller Jr.Boston Directory. 1852 Notre Dame Academy Library

O Odd Fellows' Library Old Colony Chapel Library Osgood's Circulating Library

P Paine's Circulating Library Samuel H. Parker's circulating library H.B. Payne & Co.'s circulating library Elizabeth Peabody's foreign circulating library, no.13 West St. William Pelham's circulating library, no.59 Cornhill Penitent Female Refuge Society Library F.W. Perkins' circulating library Library of Perkins Institution for the Blind Pioneer Circulating Library Prince LibraryCatalogue of the library of Rev. Thomas Prince: former pastor of Old South Church. Presented by him to the Old South Church and Society. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1846

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.Independent Chronicle, May 17, 1802; cf. Bolton 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. SimpkinsBoston Daily Advertiser, July 17, 1822 Sumner library, no.6 Winthrop block, East Boston T 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 Union Circulating Library, no.4 Cornhill, corner of Water St.;Boston Daily Advertiser, Aug. 23, 1815 William Blagrove Union Mission Church Library Unitarian Association Library S.R. Urbino, foreign circulating library 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.Catalog of the Washington Circulating Library, Boston. 1817 Washington Circulating Library, no.11 School St.Catalog of the Washington Circulating Library, Boston. 1833 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 Boston Young Men's Christian Association Library (YMCA), Tremont Temple Young Men's Christian Union Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), no.68 Warrenton Young Men's Working Association Library Z Zion Church Library

See also Books in the United States Culture in Boston List of booksellers in Boston List of libraries in 18th century Massachusetts Literature of New England

References

Further reading

External links Princeton University. Davies Project. American Libraries before 1876.