Hollywood Library, Public library in Portland, Oregon.
The Hollywood Library is a modern building at the corner of Northeast Tillamook Street and 41st Avenue featuring glass walls and sustainable design elements. It spans about 13,000 square feet and includes public computers, wireless internet, study rooms, and a dedicated children's section.
The branch opened in 1917 as Rose City Park Library at 1236 Sandy Road. A Jamieson Parker-designed building opened in August 1926 at 1170 NE Hancock Street, and a Stewart and Richardson building opened in April 1959 at 3960 NE Hancock Street; two months later the board renamed the branch Hollywood Library. The current mixed-use building at NE 41st Avenue and Tillamook Street, with 47 apartments above, opened on May 7, 2002.
The branch was renamed Hollywood Library in 1959, two months after its Hancock Street building opened, because the name matched the surrounding neighbourhood better than Rose City Park. After a 2025 renovation it gained a children's area and a mural celebrating Beverly Cleary, who grew up in the Hollywood district.
The library occupies the ground floor at the corner of NE 41st Avenue and Tillamook Street, with 47 apartments above it and a small retail space beside the entrance. Enter from the street-level corner; the children's area and technology space are inside on the same floor. The branch sits in the Hollywood District, served by bus lines along NE 41st and Sandy Boulevard.
The 2002 building is mixed-use: 47 mixed-income apartments sit above the 13,000-square-foot library, and the ground floor also holds 815 square feet of retail space. The branch it replaced, built in 1959 at NE 39th Avenue and Hancock Street, was expected to be sold in 2003 for its appraised price of $675,000.
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