George Peabody Library

"Peabody Institute Library" redirects here. For the public library of Danvers, Massachusetts, see Peabody Institute (Danvers, Massachusetts). For the public library of Peabody, Massachusetts, see Peabody Institute Library (Peabody, Massachusetts).

George Peabody Library
Interior of the George Peabody Library
Map
39°17′50.5″N 76°36′54″W / 39.297361°N 76.61500°W / 39.297361; -76.61500
Location17 E. Mount Vernon Place
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
TypeAcademic library
Established1878
Architect(s)Edmund George Lind
Collection
Size300,000
Other information
Parent organizationJohns Hopkins University
Websitewww.library.jhu.edu/library-hours/george-peabody-library/
Designated1975

The George Peabody Library is a library connected to the Johns Hopkins University,[1] focused on research into the 19th century. It was formerly the Library of the Peabody Institute of music in the City of Baltimore, and is located on the Peabody campus at West Mount Vernon Place in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere historic cultural neighborhood north of downtown Baltimore, Maryland. The collections are available for use by the general public, in keeping with the Baltimorean merchant and philanthropist George Peabody's goal to create a library "for the free use of all persons who desire to consult it".[2]

  1. ^ "Explore Peabody". Retrieved April 6, 2022.
  2. ^ Peabody, George (1857). "Founding Letter, February 12, 1857". American Journal of Education. 3: 226.