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.

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