diff --git a/src/libraries/System.Net.Http/src/System/Net/Http/HttpRuleParser.cs b/src/libraries/System.Net.Http/src/System/Net/Http/HttpRuleParser.cs
index c8e223ab7955b..b3fc802b3b84a 100644
--- a/src/libraries/System.Net.Http/src/System/Net/Http/HttpRuleParser.cs
+++ b/src/libraries/System.Net.Http/src/System/Net/Http/HttpRuleParser.cs
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ internal static class HttpRuleParser
         internal const int MaxInt64Digits = 19;
         internal const int MaxInt32Digits = 10;
 
-        // iso-8859-1, Western European (ISO)
-        internal static readonly Encoding DefaultHttpEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(28591);
+        internal static Encoding DefaultHttpEncoding => Encoding.Latin1;
 
         private static bool[] CreateTokenChars()
         {
diff --git a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Text/Encoding.cs b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Text/Encoding.cs
index 3f0d0350610ba..18d25839a3b66 100644
--- a/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Text/Encoding.cs
+++ b/src/libraries/System.Private.CoreLib/src/System/Text/Encoding.cs
@@ -491,11 +491,8 @@ public bool IsReadOnly
 
         public static Encoding ASCII => ASCIIEncoding.s_default;
 
-        // Returns an encoding for the Latin1 character set. The returned encoding
-        // will be an instance of the Latin1Encoding class.
-        //
-        // This is for our optimizations
-        private static Encoding Latin1 => Latin1Encoding.s_default;
+        /// <summary>Gets an encoding for the Latin1 character set (ISO-8859-1).</summary>
+        public static Encoding Latin1 => Latin1Encoding.s_default;
 
         // Returns the number of bytes required to encode the given character
         // array.
diff --git a/src/libraries/System.Runtime/ref/System.Runtime.cs b/src/libraries/System.Runtime/ref/System.Runtime.cs
index 3354c138715fa..f5430eb69355a 100644
--- a/src/libraries/System.Runtime/ref/System.Runtime.cs
+++ b/src/libraries/System.Runtime/ref/System.Runtime.cs
@@ -10201,6 +10201,7 @@ protected Encoding(int codePage, System.Text.EncoderFallback? encoderFallback, S
         public virtual bool IsMailNewsSave { get { throw null; } }
         public bool IsReadOnly { get { throw null; } }
         public virtual bool IsSingleByte { get { throw null; } }
+        public static System.Text.Encoding Latin1 { get { throw null; } }
         public virtual System.ReadOnlySpan<byte> Preamble { get { throw null; } }
         public static System.Text.Encoding Unicode { get { throw null; } }
         public static System.Text.Encoding UTF32 { get { throw null; } }
diff --git a/src/libraries/System.Text.Encoding/tests/Latin1Encoding/Latin1EncodingTests.cs b/src/libraries/System.Text.Encoding/tests/Latin1Encoding/Latin1EncodingTests.cs
index 5d80c31619063..2054bef9d2735 100644
--- a/src/libraries/System.Text.Encoding/tests/Latin1Encoding/Latin1EncodingTests.cs
+++ b/src/libraries/System.Text.Encoding/tests/Latin1Encoding/Latin1EncodingTests.cs
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ namespace System.Text.Tests
 {
     public class Latin1EncodingTests
     {
+        [Fact]
+        public void Encoding_Latin1_ExpectedObject()
+        {
+            Assert.NotNull(Encoding.Latin1);
+            Assert.Same(Encoding.Latin1, Encoding.Latin1);
+            Assert.Same(Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"), Encoding.Latin1);
+        }
+
         [Fact]
         public void Ctor()
         {
@@ -21,6 +29,7 @@ public void Ctor()
 
         public static IEnumerable<object[]> Encodings_TestData()
         {
+            yield return new object[] { Encoding.Latin1 };
             yield return new object[] { Encoding.GetEncoding("latin1") };
             yield return new object[] { Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1") };
         }
@@ -64,6 +73,7 @@ public void Clone(Encoding encoding)
 
         public static IEnumerable<object[]> Equals_TestData()
         {
+            yield return new object[] { Encoding.GetEncoding("latin1"), Encoding.Latin1, true };
             yield return new object[] { Encoding.GetEncoding("latin1"), Encoding.GetEncoding("latin1"), true };
             yield return new object[] { Encoding.GetEncoding("latin1"), Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1"), true };