{"nrhp_refnum":"87001004","name":"Eagle Rock Branch Library","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2224 Colorado Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.148574960000076,"lon":-118.21511983599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-05-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half story Spanish Colonial Revival branch library on Colorado Boulevard in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles. It was built in 1914 and extensively remodeled in 1927 by architects Newton and Murray.","why_significant":"The nomination cites its cultural role in the development of the Eagle Rock community, its place in the nation's largest branch library system, and its quality as public architecture by Henry C. Newton and Robert D. Murray. The 1927 remodel gave it an unusual cruciform, church-like plan for a library. The building remains a link to the community's early years.","narrative":"Eagle Rock's former branch library on Colorado Boulevard began in 1914, when local citizens wrote to the Carnegie Foundation and received a $7,500 grant. W. E. Kleinspell designed the first building in the Mission Revival style. After Eagle Rock joined the City of Los Angeles in 1923, the library became a branch of the city system and remained heavily used. In 1927 architects Henry C. Newton and Robert D. Murray, who specialized in church design, remodeled it in the Spanish style. They gave it a cruciform plan with a central reading room like a church nave, flanked by bookshelf areas, cast stone columns and arches, clerestory windows, a wood-truss ceiling and an outdoor reading area on the rear roof. The walls are stucco over reinforced concrete and hollow tile, under tile roofs. Its listing rests on the 1927 appearance, which survives. At the time of nomination it was used for storage, since a newer library had opened elsewhere. It is part of a group of Los Angeles branch libraries.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architects Henry C. Newton and Robert D. Murray (Newton and Murray); original 1914 design by W. E. Kleinspell","architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"The library was being used for storage because a new library had been built in a different location.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.52686-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/87001004.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001004/52a3e8faff-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87001004/52a3e8faff-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"CFAER Staff","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Center_For_The_Arts,_Eagle_Rock.png\" rel=\"noopener\">CFAER Staff</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Center_For_The_Arts,_Eagle_Rock.png"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857456","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_the_Arts_Eagle_Rock","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5325244"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/eagle-rock-branch-library-87001004/"}