The Historian · Ethan · San Francisco
The Mechanics' Institute Library
I paid for a day pass the first time I visited ten years ago and I still think about that reading room. The chess club downstairs has been meeting since the 1880s.
A private membership library and chess club operating since the Gold Rush era. The reading room on the upper floors is one of the most serious interior spaces in the city.
— Ethan, The Historian
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