19Four endemic human coronaviruses (HCoVs) are commonly associated with acute respiratory 20 infection in humans but immune responses to these "common cold" viruses remain 21 incompletely understood. Moreover, there is evidence emerging from independent studies 22 which suggests that endemic HCoVs can induce broadly cross-reactive T cell responses and 23 may thereby affect clinical outcomes of acute infections with the phylogenetically related 24 epidemic viruses, namely MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. Here we report a comprehensive 25 retrospective analysis of CoV-specific antibody specificities in a large number of samples from 26 children and adults using Phage-Immunoprecipitation Sequencing (PhIP-Seq). We estimate 27 the seroprevalence for endemic HCoVs to range from ~4% to ~27% depending on species and 28 cohort. Most importantly, we identified a large number of novel linear B cell epitopes of HCoV 29 proteins and demonstrate that antibody repertoires against endemic HCoVs are qualitatively 30 different in children in comparison to the general adult population and healthy adult blood 31 bank donors. We show that anti-HCoV IgG specificities more frequently found among children 32 target functionally important and structurally conserved regions of the HCoV spike and 33 nucleocapsid proteins and some antibody specificities are broadly cross-reactive with 34 peptides of epidemic human and non-human coronavirus isolates. Our findings shed light on 35 the humoral immune responses to natural infection with endemic HCoVs and may have 36 important implications for understanding of the highly variable clinical outcomes of human 37 coronavirus infections, for the development of prophylactic or therapeutic monoclonal 38 antibodies and vaccine design. 39 parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs), albeit with differences in seasonality and prevalence of the 48 viruses depending on the species [5-7]. In addition to the four endemic HCoV, three epidemic 49 coronaviruses (CoVs) have emerged in humans over the last two decades, including Severe 50 Acute Respiratory Syndrome-associated CoV (SARS-CoV) [8], Middle East Respiratory 51