San Pedro Library

The Collection

• 50,810 volumes including videos, DVDs, music CDs, audiobooks, and Read-Alongs
• San Pedro has a small collection serving neighborhood adults, young people, and children with materials about San Antonio and local area history.
• Periodical Holdings

Facility

History

History

The San Pedro Branch Library opened on August 5, 1930. It was the first branch library built in San Antonio and the only one built in a public park, San Pedro Springs Park, the oldest municipal park in Texas and the second oldest in the USA after Boston Commons. Its architecture is Spanish in style with a vaulted ceiling complemented by architectural motifs. Two large archways open into separate wings housing adult and juvenile collections in a very intimate setting. Two back rooms were originally screened-in porches. Atlee & Robert B. Ayers were the architects. The block house, directly behind the library, probably dates from the early 1700s, while the bandstand and grotto were probably built in the 1890s.

Architect: Atlee Ayres, Robert Ayres, J.M. Marriott
Contractor: John Westerhoff

Community

Community Served

Served

Located in City Council District 1. Alta Vista neighborhood, surrounding parochial, private and public schools, children's daycare centers, two high rise senior centers and San Antonio College.

Updated: 11/10/2008