Mount Rainier Renovated Library Reopens, Muralist Selected
The updated branch includes a brand new interior, new library books and a new computer system, along with other improvements.
The updated branch includes a brand new interior, new library books and a new computer system, along with other improvements.
After more than year closed, Mount Rainier’s little library branch has reopened to a standing-room-only crowd on Jan. 27, 2020. City officials hailed the library – officially named the Karl A. Young Library after a longtime local fire chief who died suddenly – as an essential, beloved public space for the community.
The library, which first opened in 1952, occupies a window storefront in a historic building from 1915 near the Mount Rainier Circle at 3409 Rhode Island Ave. It has long been a good example of a small neighborhood library, located near a busy intersection many residents walk past to catch a bus or take their children to school.