“The Dryades Branch, ca. 1960"

ID: 5170 ~ Source: Image courtesy of New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana Division/City Archives and Special Collections.

This file appears in: Dryades Street Library and YMCA

This file appears in: Dryades Street Library and YMCA

Dryades Street Library and YMCA

By UNO History Department & Kathryn O'Dwyer, editor

Today home to the Dryades YMCA, this beautiful building, erected in 1915, was the first New Orleans Public Library created to serve black New Orleanians and had the capacity to hold 10,000 books.