Carnegie Libraries of California

Eagle Rock, Los Angeles County

Los Angeles area, Los Angeles County region

Old Eagle Rock Library Building
2225 Colorado Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90041

opened 1915
Eagle Rock Library 1915-1923
Eagle Rock Branch Library 1923-1981
currently a community center

grant amount: $7,500
architectural style: Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival
architect: W. E. Kleinpell

The Eagle Rock Carnegie Library was built in 1914. The Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival structure, with its enclosed arcade is located on a steeply sloping site at the northeast corner of Colorado Blvd. and Rockland Avenue in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains north of Los Angeles, in the area of Occidental College and Griffith Park observatory.

The original building, designed by W.E. Kleinpell, was constructed with a $7500 Carnegie grant and opened in 1915. In 1923 Eagle Rock was annexed by Los Angeles. Newton and Murray were architects for its extensive remodeling in 1927, almost a total rebuilding on the old foundations. When a new library was constructed in 1981, the Carnegie was transferred to the Department of General Services whose plans to renovate it as a community center were long delayed by additional seismic safety standards. The building is now the Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, run by a partnership between the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and the Eagle Rock Community Cultural Association.