O'Neal Library

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The Emmet O'Neal Library is a public library owned and operated by the City of Mountain Brook and located at 50 Oak Street in Crestline Village. It is part of the Jefferson County Library Cooperative.

The library was founded in 1965 in a building on the same site as the present library. The building was donated by the Elizabeth and Kirkman O'Neal Foundation and the library was named after Kirkman's father, former Governor Emmet O'Neal, partly in recognition of his promotion of rural libraries during his term.

The first Emmet O'Neal Library, a one-story brick clad structure with Georgian style trim and a hipped roof, was one of the first public buildings to be heated and cooled by an electric heat pump. It originally housed 8,000 volumes, but was soon enlarged with an east wing in 1966.

The present building, designed by HKW Associates, opened in 2001.

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