San Francisco/Mission, San Francisco County
San Francisco area, San Francisco Bay Area region
Mission Branch Library
3359 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
opened 1916
Public library from 1916-present
currently a public library
grant amount: $50,000
architectural style: Italian Renaissance
architect: G. Albert Lansburgh
In accordance with the 1901 letter from Andrew Carnegie to Mayor James
Phelan, promising $750,000 for a main library and branches, the Carnegie
funds were allocated more or less one half for a main library and the
remainder for branches. The city paid the difference between the main
library's Carnegie share and its $1,152,000 total cost. The branch share was
divided among seven libraries. No lots were donated and land costs ranged
from a high in densely populated Mission property to a city owned lot in less
developed Richmond; in at least one case the neighbors contributed to land
costs.
Most of the branches have been enlarged very slightly, all have been
retrofitted due to higher standards and varying degrees of earthquake damage,
and all are included in San Francisco's "List of Architecturally Significant
Buildings." And all of the branches still serve as libraries.
The first Mission branch had been established in 1888 and was still in rented
quarters when it was decided that the Mission should receive the second
Carnegie branch. Land was expensive in the highly developed district. A
117'x65' lot at the southwest corner of 24th and Bartlett streets was
purchased for $12,000; the building cost about $50,000. G. Albert
Lansburgh designed it as his first of four Carnegie commissions. The
Italian Renaissance building is tall and rectangular, immediately
adjacent to the sidewalk, and occupies virtually all of its lot in the
mostly residential area a block west of Mission Street.
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