Enoch Pratt Free Library

Enoch Pratt Free Library
Location	400 Cathedral Street, (between West Franklin and Mulberry Streets) Baltimore, Maryland
Type	Free, (Municipal/State) Public Library
Established	1882/1886[1]
Branches	22[2]
Other information
Director	Chad Helton, President and CEO
Website	www.prattlibrary.org

Central Library
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Library building (second structure - built 1931-1933), Cathedral Street main entrance.
General information
Construction started	1931
Construction stopped	1933

The Enoch Pratt Free Library is the free public library system of Baltimore, Maryland. Its Central Library is located on 400 Cathedral Street (southbound) and occupies the northeastern three quarters of a city block bounded by West Franklin Street (U.S. Route 40 westbound) to the north, Cathedral Street to the east, West Mulberry Street (U.S. Route 40 eastbound) to the south, and Park Avenue (northbound) to the west. Located on historic Cathedral Hill, north of downtown, the library is also in the Mount Vernon-Belvedere-Mount Royal neighborhood and cultural and historic district.

The Cathedral Street Main Library is the flagship of the entire Enoch Pratt Free Library system, which includes twenty-one neighborhood branches, it was designated the "Maryland State Library Resource Center" by the General Assembly of Maryland in 1971.^[1][2] Central Library operates as the state library for Maryland.