George Peabody Library | |
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39°17′50.5″N 76°36′54″W / 39.297361°N 76.61500°W | |
Location | 17 E. Mount Vernon Place Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
Type | Academic library |
Established | 1878 |
Architect(s) | Edmund George Lind |
Collection | |
Size | 300,000 |
Other information | |
Parent organization | Johns Hopkins University |
Website | www |
Designated | 1975 |
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]