Lovett Memorial Library

Yes! They opened yesterday but will have the big celebration next week on the 16th.

Yes

Found this on the library website: Germantown Avenue began as an Indian footpath through the woods used as a road by settlers. In 1865, Thomas Lovett purchased more than ten acres along the avenue as a family estate. Mount Airy Free Library was founded twenty years later by a trio (one of whom was Miss Louisa Lovett) in a rented room at a lumberyard, where 7153-55 Germantown Avenue now stands. Another of the trio, Mrs. Sheldon Potter, acted as volunteer librarian. She had a small circulating library at her home for neighborhood boys, hoping to raise their standard of reading materials from the "dime novels" that were all they could afford for themselves. In 1887, Charlotte Lovett Bostwick built and endowed the library as a memorial to her brother, Thomas R. Lovett. This portion now serves as a meeting room. Lovett Library became a branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1924. A new addition was opened in 1961, and in 1982 the Friends of Lovett Library started. The library was

Yes street parking.. I almost never have a problem with parking

Yes. There is one in the back of the downstairs lounge area. Im not sure if there are more than that. You will have to ask the staff.

Yup...do it all the time and if the book is at another library I get it sent there.😊

No. There are no clubs meeting there right now.