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La Jolla, CA 92037
(858) 454-5872
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History : Our history began in 1894, when a small group of pioneer La Jollans formed the La Jolla Reading Club. In 1898, a Reading Room was constructed at the corner
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History : Our history began in 1894, when a small group of pioneer La Jollans formed the La Jolla Reading Club. In 1898, a Reading Room was constructed at the corner
of
Girard
Avenue
and
Wall
Street,
thanks
to
a
generous
donation
from
Florence
Sawyer.
In
1899,
the
group
was
incorporated
as
the
Library
Association
of
La
Jolla,
fulfilling
the
function
of
a
membership
library,
and
Ellen
Browning
Scripps
was
elected
as
the
first
president
of
its
Board
of
Trustees.
By
the
1920s,
the
library
had
outgrown
its
space.
With
generous
support
from
Ellen
Browning
Scripps
and
others,
a
new
library
building
was
designed
by
William
Templeton
Johnson,
architect
of
many
of
San
Diegobs
most
important
civic
structures,
including
Balboa
Parkbs
San
Diego
Museum
of
Art
and
Museum
of
Natural
History.
The
gracious
Spanish
Renaissance-style
building
was
dedicated
and
opened
to
the
public
in
1921.
For
many
years,
the
Library
Association,
a
private
institution,
supported
a
general
library.
In
1955,
the
City
of
San
Diego
agreed
to
take
over
the
operation
of
the
library
as
one
of
its
public
library
branches,
and
rented
the
space
from
the
Athenaeum.
The
Association
donated
the
bulk
of
the
library
holdings
to
the
public
library,
retaining
certain
books
on
music
and
art
as
the
nucleus
of
a
collection
for
the
newly-named
Athenaeum
Music
&
Arts
Library.
That
same
year,
artist
and
architect
William
Lumpkins
was
hired
to
design
an
adjacent
building
that
would
complement
the
larger
library
structure.
This
is
the
building
that
houses
the
Joan
&
Irwin
Jacobs
Music
Room,
and
is
noted
for
its
striking
rotundabthe
Athenaeumbs
btrademarkb
image.
The
Athenaeum
was
dedicated
on
June
27,
1957.
By
1989,
with
the
Athenaeumbs
increasing
collections
and
larger
membership,
the
one-room
library
could
no
longer
serve
the
needs
of
the
organization
and
the
community.
When
the
general
library
moved
to
a
new
La
Jolla
branch
of
the
public
library
on
Draper
Avenue,
the
Athenaeum
was
able
to
expand
into
part
of
its
original
building.
La
Jolla
architect
David
Raphael
Singer
designed
the
expansion,
joining
the
Athenaeum
(Lumpkins)
building
with
the
1921
(Templeton)
library
building.
Since
the
expansion
in
July
1990,
under
the
directorship
of
Erika
Torri,
the
Athenaeum
has
taken
on
an
increasingly
active
role
in
the
cultural
life
of
San
Diego,
attracting
over
100,
000
visitors
each
year.
The
library
has
added
a
large
number
of
year-round
events
and
programs,
including
art
exhibitions,
concerts
(chamber,
jazz
and
new
music),
lectures,
and
art
classes
at
two
studio
locations.
During
this
time,
the
Librarybs
membership
has
doubled,
and
income
from
membership,
donations,
events,
and
admissions
has
increased
by
a
factor
of
10.
The
Athenaeum
Music
&
Arts
Librarybone
of
only
17
membership
libraries
remaining
in
the
United
States,
and
one
of
two
west
of
the
Mississippibcurrently
has
more
than
2,
200
members
who
pay
an
annual
membership
fee
for
privileges
to
the
library
and
other
programs.
In
1999,
the
Athenaeum
celebrated
its
100th
Anniversary
in
a
whirlwind
of
activities
and
publicity
that
celebrated,
as
well,
its
position
as
one
of
San
Diegobs
outstanding
cultural
institutions.
Now
in
its
106th
year,
the
library
has
recently
launched
an
ambitious
endowment
campaignbthe
first
in
its
historybto
allow
the
expansion
into
the
remaining
portion
of
the
original
building,
currently
leased
as
retail
space.
Given
the
previous
history
of
this
unique
organization,
it
should
come
as
no
surprise
to
learn
that
the
Athenaeum
Music
&
Arts
Library
has,
once
again,
outgrown
its
space.
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