Holgate Library | |
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![]() Front entrance in 2012 | |
General information | |
Location | Foster-Powell |
Address | 7905 S.E. Holgate Boulevard |
Town or city | Portland, Oregon |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 45°29′26″N122°34′56″W / 45.49056°N 122.58222°W |
Opened | May 19, 1971 |
Renovated | October 17, 2000, July 13, 2024 |
Owner | Multnomah County Library |
Technical details | |
Floor area | 6,060 square feet (563 m2) |
Lifts/elevators | 2 (1 staff only) |
Design and construction | |
Architecture firm | Allen, McMath, Hawkins Architects |
Renovating team | |
Architect(s) | Thomas Hacker and Associates |
Renovating firm | Andersen Construction Company |
Website | |
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The Holgate Library is a branch of the Multnomah County Library, in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1]
The branch offers the Multnomah County Library catalog of two million books, periodicals and other materials. [1] Opening on May 19, 1971, it replaced the Arleta and Lents branch libraries, though the area had been served as early as 1904 with a deposit station in a drug store in Lents. [2] Renovated in 2000, the building had 6,060 square feet (563 m2) of floor space and held up to 30,000 volumes. [2] [3] The renovations included seismic upgrades, a new roof, new windows, and a solar-powered electricity back-up system, among other items. [2] [4] In February 2008, the branch added the county's only teen and children's librarians. [5]
Holgate was cited, along with the Midland and Belmont branches, as one of several branches serving the Montavilla neighborhood, when that neighborhood's branch was sold by the county in 2005. [6] [7]