Opened: July 9, 2011
Overview
- Rain garden
- Designed by Weinstein AU Architects
- 10,000 square feet
History
- 1930: KCLS bookmobile serves a Linwood Heights farmers market
- 1949: Bookmobile stops added in central Kenmore and at a Moorlands grocery store
- 1956: KCLS agrees to provide library services if the community provides a facility
- 1958: Library opens in a remodeled barn on 73rd Avenue NE, purchased with funds raised by Kenmore's Elementary PTA and Library Association
- 1961: Completion of 400-square-foot children's area expansion
- 1976: Library opens in a new, 2,112-square-foot government complex
- 1999: KCLS annexation
- 2011: Opening of new, 10,000-square-foot library
- 2012: Awarded: AIA Washington Council, Civic Design Honor
Kenmore Library Association
- Dues: Annual, $5; Contributing, $10; Sustaining, $25; Sponsor, $50; Lifetime, $100
- Book Sales: Ongoing sale in library
- Other Fundraisers: Book bags, $5
- Meetings: Third Tuesday of January, March, May, July, September, and November
