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Ocean View Branch Library was the 15th branch established in
the San Francisco Public Library system. On January 2, 1902,
the first “library deposit station” was opened in the Ocean
View district. The Ocean View Branch Library opened in 1903
on Broad Street near the corner of Capitol Avenue. Between
1903 and 1926 the branch was located first at 379 Capitol
Avenue and then at 11 Plymouth Avenue. From 1926 through the
spring of 2000, the Ocean View Branch Library was located in
a storefront at 11 Broad Street.
The new Ocean View Branch Library, at 345 Randolph Street, was
opened on June 7, 2000. It was the first branch building to be
built in San Francisco since 1969. The San Francisco Bureau of
Architecture designed the two-story building. The cost of the
building was $2.5 million. Private funds were raised for the
equipment and furniture within the branch.
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