Editing Manayunk, Philadelphia (section)

===Public libraries===
[[File:ELEVATION OF SOUTHEAST FRONT FACADE, LOOKING NORTHWEST - Free Library of Philadelphia, Manayunk Branch, Fleming and Dupont Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA HABS PA-6758-3.tif|thumb|Manayunk Branch Library at Fleming and Dupont Streets]]
[[Free Library of Philadelphia]] operates the Roxborough Branch, serving Manayunk, at 6245 Ridge Avenue at Hermitage Street.<ref>"[http://libwww.library.phila.gov/branches/branch.cfm?loc=ROX Roxborough Branch]." ''[[Free Library of Philadelphia]]''. Retrieved on November 7, 2008.</ref> A prior library, the Manayunk Branch, located at the corner of Fleming and Dupont Streets, opened in February 1909 and was built on land donated by John F. S. Morris, Esq. Designed in the Beaux-Arts style by the architect Benjamin Rush Stevens, it was the tenth [[Andrew Carnegie]]-funded Free Library branch and featured a main reading room, a children's room which also served as a lecture room seating 150, and a basement, which had two toilets, a staff room, kitchen, janitor's room, boiler room, and coal bins.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/48059|title=Manayunk Branch: Interior view of the Manayunk Branch, 1909|website=Free Library of Philadelphia Digital Collections|access-date=June 1, 2018}}</ref> The Manayunk Branch served the Manayunk neighborhood until it closed in 1969. The building was later used as a nursing home and is currently part of a condominium development.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/48052|title=Manayunk Branch: Exterior view of the Manayunk Branch, 1909|website=Free Library of Philadelphia Digital Collections|access-date=June 1, 2018}}</ref>