History:
Mark Twain Neighborhood Library officially opened on February 18, 1930 as the Central Branch Library. It was named due to its geographically central location at 1541 Rose Avenue. On November 15, 1937 the Central Branch Library was officially renamed Mark Twain Library. It moved four more times before moving to its present site on August 11, 2007.
Mark Twain Neighborhood Library is named after the famous writer, Mark Twain, also known as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain was famous for such stories as the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
