Venice Branch

	Venice Branch
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Former Venice Branch, May 2008
Location	610 California Ave., Venice, Los Angeles, California
Built	1930
Architect	Witmer, David L.; Crosel, Joe
Architectural style	Mission Revival-Spanish Colonial Revival
MPS	Los Angeles Branch Library System TR
NRHP reference No.	87001020
Added to NRHP	May 19, 1987

Venice Branch is a former branch library of the Los Angeles Public Library located in the Venice section of Los Angeles, California. The old Venice Branch library was replaced in 1995 by a new branch now known as the Venice-Abott Kinney Memorial Branch. The Spanish Colonial Revival style building is now used as the Vera Davis McClendon Youth and Family Center.

The Venice Branch was designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission in June 1984. In 1987, the Venice Branch and several other branch libraries in Los Angeles were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic group submission.^[2] The application noted that the branch libraries had been constructed in a variety of period revival styles to house the initial branch library system of the City of Los Angeles. With respect to the Venice Branch, the application described the building as a building in the Spanish Colonial Revival style made of masonry construction. The front entry has oak double doors with diamond-shaped panes. Small wrought-iron lamps flank the entrance.^[2]

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^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ ^a ^b The Los Angeles Branch Library System TR Multiple Property Submission nomination explains 22 branch libraries but one, the University Branch, appears not to have been listed.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[Library-2] The Los Angeles Branch Library System TR Multiple Property Submission nomination explains 22 branch libraries but one, the University Branch, appears not to have been listed.

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