Allston Branch Library is established.

It begins as a delivery station in a drugstore at 26 Franklin Street. Succeeded by the Allston Reading Room (first) at 354 Cambridge Street in 1905, it becomes a full-service branch in 1924. The library moves to 161 Harvard Avenue (second) in 1929. Closed in 1981 due to budget cuts, a new library (third) opens on North Harvard Street in 2001.*