User:Auldhouse/sandbox/Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum

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Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum is a private library established in Seattle in 2014 and located at 314 Marion Street. Folio has a circulating collection and hosts cultural and civic program and also serves as a work space for writers.

Folio: The Athenaeum was founded by David Brewster as a private membership library in 2014 with an initial membership of 300.[1][2] The library initially contained a library of 15,000 books.[2]

There are several other private libraries in the metropolitan cities around the United States including Boston, San Francisco, New York, London, San Diego, Providence, Newport, Cincinnati and Philadelphia.[1]

It is currently located in Seattle at the historic Downtown Y just a few blocks from the Seattle public Library. [1]


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  1. ^ a b c "Subscription library to offer not just books -- quiet, too". The Seattle Times. 2015-05-24. Retrieved 2016-12-27.
  2. ^ a b "New Seattle Library Sets Aside Technology in Favor of Books". www.centerdigitaled.com. Retrieved 2016-12-27.

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