Libraries
Aurora Hills Library
735 South 18th Street
Arlington, VA 22202
(703) 228-5715 (voice & TTY)
Branch Manager Cathy Robinson
Hours
Monday: 10:00am - 9:00pm
Tuesday & Wednesday: 1:00pm - 9:00pm
Thursday: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Friday & Saturday: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Directions
From Alexandria
Rt.1 North to left on S. 23rd Street. Turn right on S. Hayes Street to S. 18th Street. Library parking lot straight ahead.
From Fairfax
Rt. 66 East to Rt. 110 South. Go under 395. Turn right onto S. 15th Street. Left onto Hayes to parking lot for Library/Senior center on right.
From Maryland
From Takoma Park/Baltimore take 495 towards Richmond. Cross Wilson Bridge to North on Rt. 1. Left on 23rd Street. Right onto Hayes to Library/Senior Center parking lot.
From Bethesda take 495W, cross Cabin John Bridge, to I-395N towards Washington. Right onto South Glebe Road. Left onto Arlington Ridge Road. Right onto 20th Street. Left onto Hayes to Library/Senior Center.
Metrorail
Pentagon City station on the Yellow and Blue lines. From the station proceed south on Hayes Street, then cross 15th Street. Continue approximately one-half block to the Aurora Hills Center on your right. The library is in the same building with the Senior Center and Fire Station.
Materials 42,000
Building Size 8,700 square feet; opened 1977
History
Aurora Hills Branch Library was founded in 1926 by the Jefferson Women's Club, was then presented to Aurora Hills Garden Club and finally to the Nellie Custis School PTA. In 1930, the County Board of Supervisors purchased and remodeled a store at 23rd and Eads Street for the library and renamed it the Martha Morton Duncan Library in honor of County Supervisor Edward Duncan's mother. One of the library's earliest volunteers recalled that she moved to the neighborhood in 1935 when one joined the library by donating a book. A bond referendum for a new library was approved in 1969; in 1978 the current building opened as a shared facility with the neighborhood recreation center, the fire department, and the visitor's center.
Today, a newly renovated Aurora Hills branch is housed in a spacious, contemporary building in the Pentagon City/Crystal City region and serves a diverse community with a collection that highlights contemporary, popular fiction and nonfiction titles. Magazines and books-on-tape are also available for borrowing. Two book discussion groups meet regularly each month as so story programs for pre-schoolers every week.
