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District 9 · Block 6515, Lot 001 · ZIP 94110

Mission Branch Carnegie Library

300 Bartlett Street · Mission

  • 2 stories
  • 7,636 ft2 lot area
  • Zoned P
  • Historic resource
  • City landmark #234
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  1. 1900

    Assessor’s “built” date.

  2. 1915

    The Mission Branch, designed by G. Albert Lansburgh, was the second of the seven branch libraries built with a Carnegie grant — a grant fought over for twelve years in the city's politics — in the neighbourhood that had had the first branch library, in rented rooms. A children's room was added in 1923.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  3. 1916

    The Mission branch of the San Francisco Public Library, designed by G. Albert Lansburgh.

    Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
  4. Dec 1996
    Permit 9624191 $$$ $2,500,000

    Horizontal addition.

  5. May 1998
    Permit 9808730 $$$ $17,000

    Fire alarm system only.

  6. Feb 1999
    Permit 9903727 $$$ $68,442

    Reroofing.

  7. 2004

    Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 234, Mission Branch Carnegie Library.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
  8. Apr 2021
    Issued Permit 202104198808 $$$ $13,011,337

    Priority process: renovation & addition & selective demolition of library. update reading spaces, bookstacks, new community rm & children's library, add'l restrms, staff spaces & landscaped patio. new mechanical, electrical & fire protection systems. basement, penthouse & attic updates.

  9. Jun 2024
    Issued Permit 202406285460 $$$ $188,700

    Add fire sprinkler system to existing building. new system no old one underground by others.

  10. Sep 2025
    Issued Permit 202509054661 $$$ $50

    Install emergency responder radio coverage system.

  11. Oct 2025
    Issued Permit 202510097034 $$$ $3,150

    7 evacuation maps in the basement 1, 2, and roof reference bap#2021-0419-8808.

  12. Oct 2025
    Issued Permit 202510076884 $$$ $118,230

    Installation of fire alarm system including a celluar dialer, initiating and notification devices. ref permit application 202104198808.

  13. Nov 2025
    Issued Permit 202511048886 $$$ $30,000

    Ug fire waterline ref# 202406285460. all work outside of building. no interior work.

  14. October 9, 2026

    After 6 years and $37 million, historic Mission Branch Library to reopen — Mission Local

2 expired permits are omitted. The assessor dates the building to 1900; Planning's historic resource survey records 1916. This address is recorded as built 1916; the assessor's roll gives 1900, the year it files most of the city's nineteenth-century buildings under. The designation report dates the Mission Branch to 1915; the architects' biographies context statement gives 1916.

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