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All locations closed September 4 - 6.

Hayden Heights Branch Library History and Photo Album

A Hayden Heights Library Group was organized in 1939 and opened a library in the Hayden Heights School.

To great fanfare on April 2, 1955, the Hayden Heights Branch was opened on the southwest corner of White Bear and Arlington Avenues. The building cost $85,000 to construct.

Read the April 1955 Souvenir Edition of the New Hayden Heights Branch Library (8M PDF file).

The building at the present location, 1456 White Bear Ave. N, was opened in 1979.

Photo Album

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Hayden Heights Library at White Bear and Arlington Avenues.	Interior of the original Hayden Heights Library. Charging desk is at left facing the children's section with an entrance into the workroom behind the librarian. Woodwork: natural finish Tops of the desks and tables: yellow mottled linoleum Far wall and front wall to the right: light yellow Short wall on the left: soft green Ceiling: off-white Wall behind charging desk: soft Pompeiian red
The present Hayden Heights Library, which opened in 1979.
Charging desk at Hayden Heights Library in 1981.