The Mercantile Library of Cincinnati is a membership library located in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The library provides its members with a circulating library, a reading room, and a series of lectures by prominent writers and thinkers.[1] The library was founded on April 18, 1835 by forty-five young merchants and clerks as the Young Men's Mercantile Library Association.[2] One of its founding members was William Henry Harrison.[3] The library has a renewable 10,000 year lease on its current location, the eleventh floor of 1414 Walnut Street, the only lease of its type in the world. [4]
Footnotes
- ^ Mercantile library. Retrieved on 2007-09-30.
- ^ Young Mens Mercantile Library Association. Ohio History Central. Retrieved on 2007-09-30.
- ^ Findsen, Owen. "Mercantile movin' on up", The Cincinnati Enquirer, 2000-01-19. Retrieved on 2007-09-30.
- ^ Mercantile library. Retrieved on 2007-09-30.
