Cossitt Library
A small downtown branch where Memphis library history and contemporary audio creation meet.
- Create
- Bookable second-floor podcast studio
- Audio
- Two microphones, headphones, and RODECaster Pro
- History
- Original Memphis public-library institution, opened in 1893
- Scale
- Compact 5,800-square-foot branch
Location
33 South Front Street, Memphis, TN 38103
Downtown Memphis · Directions
The current branch page identifies Cossitt as Memphis’s first public library and documents its second-floor podcast studio with two microphones, headphones, and a RODECaster Pro.
MPL’s history record traces the institution from its 1893 opening through segregated branches, integration, and its changing downtown research role.