The Rockwell Branch Library will temporarily close at the end of business on Sunday, March 16 for interior remodeling. The transformed Rockwell Branch is anticipated to reopen in Fall 2025.
The nearby Angelou Branch will reopen from its remodeling with temporarily extended hours on Monday, March 17.
The Ford Rockwell Branch Library first opened on Monday, March 29, 1976, replacing a small storefront branch that had been located at Central & Oliver. This branch was originally planned to be called the Edgemoor Park Branch. About a week before it opened, the Library Board of Directors voted to name the branch in honor of the retiring Ford Aldrich Rockwell (1907-1997), Wichita's head librarian from 1948-76. The Barbara Rockwell Children's Room inside the branch is named in honor of Mr. Rockwell's first wife, former children's librarian Barbara Hosmer Rockwell (1914-1971). When it opened, Rockwell was the largest public library branch in Wichita, and the first of those branches not located within a rented space.
Route #25: Textron at Beech, Minneha Elem., E Central, Wesley Med Center, Towne East Mall
Stop at Central and Edgemoor, walk north on Edgemoor, then turn east on 9th.
