User:Auldhouse/sandbox/Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum

Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum is a private library established in Seattle in 2014 and located at 314 Marion Street. Folio has a circulating collection and hosts cultural and civic program and also serves as a work space for writers.

Folio: The Athenaeum was founded by David Brewster as a private membership library in 2014 with an initial membership of 300. The library initially contained a library of 15,000 books.

There are several other private libraries in the metropolitan cities around the United States including Boston, San Francisco, New York, London, San Diego, Providence, Newport, Cincinnati and Philadelphia.

It is currently located in Seattle at the historic Downtown Y just a few blocks from the Seattle public Library.