Editing Enoch Pratt Free Library (section)

{{Short description|Public library system in Baltimore, Maryland, US}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox library
| library_name = Enoch Pratt Free Library
| location = 400 Cathedral Street, (between West Franklin and Mulberry Streets)<br>[[Baltimore, Maryland]]
| type = Free, (Municipal/State) [[Public Library]]
| established = 1882/1886<ref name="epflhistory">{{cite web|url=http://www.prattlibrary.org/history/|title=History of the Library - Enoch Pratt Free Library|website=www.prattlibrary.org|access-date=26 January 2018}}</ref>
| num_branches = 22<ref name="epflbranchmap">{{cite web|url=http://www.prattlibrary.org/locations/map.aspx|title=Library Locations - Enoch Pratt Free Library|website=www.prattlibrary.org|access-date=26 January 2018}}</ref>
| director = Chad Helton, President and CEO
| website = {{Official URL}}
| logo = Enoch Pratt Free Library logo.svg
}}
{{Infobox building
| name = Central Library
| image = Enoch pratt library.jpg
| caption = Enoch Pratt Free Library, Central Library building (second structure - built 1931-1933), Cathedral Street main entrance.
| start_date = 1931
| stop_date = 1933
}}
The '''Enoch Pratt Free Library''' is the free [[public library]] system of [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]]. Its Central Library is located on 400 [[Cathedral Street (Baltimore)|Cathedral Street]] (southbound) and occupies the northeastern three quarters of a [[city block]] bounded by [[U.S. Route 40 in Maryland|West Franklin Street]] (U.S. Route 40 westbound) to the north, Cathedral Street to the east, [[U.S. Route 40 in Maryland|West Mulberry Street]] (U.S. Route 40 eastbound) to the south, and Park Avenue (northbound) to the west. Located on historic Cathedral Hill, north of downtown, the library is also in the [[Mount Vernon, Baltimore|Mount Vernon-Belvedere-Mount Royal]] neighborhood and cultural and historic district.

The Cathedral Street Main Library is the flagship of the entire Enoch Pratt Free Library system, which includes twenty-one neighborhood branches, it was designated the "Maryland State Library Resource Center" by the [[Maryland General Assembly|General Assembly of Maryland]] in 1971.<ref name="epflhistory"/><ref name="epflbranchmap"/> Central Library operates as the state library for Maryland.