Young Men's Institute Library
Library in New Haven, CT
In August 1826, eight young working men from New Haven met at the home of Mr. Albert Wilcox and established the Apprentices Library Association, an educational society dedicated entirely to the intellectual improvement of its members. This meeting took place decades before the opening of New Haven's 1st free public library, and the association speedily set to establish its own collection of books for the use of its members, a model 1st developed by Benjamin Franklin in 1731.
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Young Men's Institute Library
read moreFounded in 1826, the Institute Library provides quiet reading areas, a large circulating collection of up-to-date literature, unique programming and rich opportunities to engage with members and the surrounding neighborhoods of downtown New Haven.
About Us
read moreThe Young Men's Institute Library building at 847 Chapel Street in New Haven is a four-story, brick and wood-frame building constructed in 1878. Our Chapel Street home, designed by architect Rufus G. Russell, a student of Henry Austin, and constructed in 1878, is a four-story masonry building located one block from the historic New Haven Green. The building's street level is a storefront rental space (owned by the Library), with separate access via stairs to the main library reading rooms and stack areas on the second floor.
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