Former Jones Memorial Library
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Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia) is located in Virginia
Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia)
Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia) is located in the United States
Jones Memorial Library (Lynchburg, Virginia)
Location434 Rivermont Ave., Lynchburg, Virginia
Coordinates37°25′20″N 79°9′40″W / 37.42222°N 79.16111°W / 37.42222; -79.16111
Area1.8 acres (0.73 ha)
Built1906 (1906)
ArchitectFrye & Chesterman
Architectural styleClassical Revival
NRHP reference No.80004311[1]
VLR No.118-0153
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 30, 1980
Designated VLRJuly 31, 1980[2]

Jones Memorial Library is a specialized genealogy and history research library located at 2311 Memorial Avenue in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The original historic library building is located at 434 Rivermont Avenue in Lynchburg, Virginia. It was designed by the local architectural firm of Frye & Chesterman. It was erected in 1906–07 in the Neo-Classical Revival style.[3] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] In 1987, Jones Memorial Library sold the Rivermont Avenue property and moved its services to 2311 Memorial Avenue in a shared building with the Lynchburg Public Library.

During the Jim Crow era, Jones Memorial Library operated segregated public library services as mandated by law. In 1924, under the leadership of Jane Maud Campbell, the library opened the Dunbar Branch at the former Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. The Dunbar Branch served black residents in the city; Anne Spencer was the branch's first permanent librarian.

In 1966, the Lynchburg Public Library opened as the first taxpayer funded, racially integrated public library in the city. Jones Memorial Library then donated its fiction collection to the Lynchburg Public Library and the Lynchburg City Schools, becoming an integrated specialized research library.

The Jones Memorial Library collection in genealogy and central Virginia is one of the largest in the state. Although the library's primary focus is on the central Virginia area, collections include a wide variety of materials covering the State of Virginia as well as the surrounding states, including county histories and court records, family histories and genealogies, general works on the Civil War, county land tax and personal property tax records, and census records.[4]

The library is located at 2311 Memorial Avenue on the second floor above the Lynchburg Public Library's main branch. The library is open Tuesday-Saturday for genealogical and archival research.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
  3. ↑ Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff (July 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Jones Memorial Library" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying photo
  4. ↑ "Jones Memorial Library". www.jmlibrary.org. Retrieved 2022-12-13.


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