TX-14680 Swedish Consulate and Swante Palm Library

Marker text: SWEDISH CONSULATE AND SWANTE PALM LIBRARY

Swante Palm (1815-1899), Vice Consul for Sweden and Norway from 1866 until his death, built a small house on Ash Street (now 9th Street) in the 1850s. It was a repository for PalmÕs extensive book collection and served as the Swedish Consulate, where Palm gave assistance to many Swedish immigrants. To accommodate his ever-growing library, Palm enlarged the house in 1879. He donated his 10,000-volume collection to the University of Texas Library in 1897, increasing the schoolÕs holdings by more than sixty percent. PalmÕs house was razed in 1958.