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Gregory Heights Library

Library in Portland, Oregon, U.S.

Field	Value
name	Gregory Heights Library
image	Gregory Heights Library in Portland.jpg
caption	Front entrance
map_type	Portland
owner	Multnomah County Library
address	7921 NE Sandy Boulevard
location_town	Portland, Oregon
location_country	United States
coordinates
opened_date	February 23, 1966
renovation_date	March 2, 1999
floor_area	5997 ft2
architecture_firm	Farnham and Peck
main_contractor	Cloyd R. Watt
ren_architect	Thomas Hacker and Associates
ren_firm	Andersen Construction Company
website	[Gregory Heights Library](http://events.multcolib.org/venues/gregory-heights-library)

The Gregory Heights Library is a branch of the Multnomah County Library, in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. The branch offers the Multnomah County Library catalog of two million books, periodicals and other materials.

The library branch first opened in 1938. The current branch, located at N.E. 79th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard, opened in 1966. It cost $83,000 to build, and was designed by the architecture firm Farnham and Peck.

History

The library operated as a small reading room at 3448 N.E. 72nd Avenue from 1938 through 1956, when the Library Association of Portland replaced it with a bookmobile. By 1962, the association had approved construction of a branch in the Gregory Heights neighborhood. The new Gregory Heights Library, at N.E. 79th Avenue and N.E. Sandy Boulevard, opened on February 24, 1966. Its collection included 10,000 books.

In the 1980s, the library added computer terminals, more books, and southeast Asian materials in Vietnamese and Cambodian. After Multnomah County voters approved a bond measure in 1996 to repair branch libraries and improve library technology system-wide, Gregory Heights Library closed in July 1998 for renovation. It reopened on March 2, 1999.

The original architect of the building was Farnham and Peck. Thomas Hacker and Associates was the architect for the renovation. The library has a floor area of 5997 ft2 and a capacity of 20,000 volumes.

The library closed temporarily in 2023–2024 for renovations funded by a 2020 building bond.

References

"Gregory Heights Library". [[Multnomah County Library]].
"Gregory Heights Library History". Multnomah County Library.
(July 1, 1965). "Construction will begin next week". The Oregonian.
"Gregory Heights Library history {{!}} Multnomah County Library".

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