Memorial Branch

Memorial Branch Library, Los Angeles
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 81
Memorial Branch, 2008
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Location	4645 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34°3′23″N 118°19′56″W / 34.05639°N 118.33222°W / 34.05639; -118.33222
Built	1930
Architect	Austin, John C.
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
MPS	Los Angeles Branch Library System TR
NRHP reference No.	87001015[1]
LAHCM No.	81
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 19, 1987
Designated LAHCM	1971-04-07[2]

Memorial Branch is a branch library of the Los Angeles Public Library. It was built in 1930 based on a Gothic Revival design by architect John C. Austin, also noted as the lead architect of the Griffith Observatory and the Hollywood Masonic Temple. The library includes a large heraldic work of stained glass created by the artists at Judson Studios.

In 1987, the Memorial Branch and several other branch libraries in Los Angeles were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic group submission.^[3] The application noted that the branch libraries had been constructed in a variety of period revival styles to house the initial branch library system of the City of Los Angeles. In the movie, Bedtime Stories, starring Adam Sandler, this library serves as the children's elementary school.

The Library underwent a major restoration in the mid-1990s, reopening in 1996. The library relocated to office space near John Burroughs Middle School in the interim.

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles
• List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the Wilshire and Westlake areas
• Los Angeles Public Library

• Carol Easton, "Library in the park," WESTWAYS, September 1977
• History of the Memorial Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library
• Letter, June 1930, from Judson Studios explaining Alumni memorial window