1871 - St. Johnsbury Athenaeum - St. Johnsbury VT
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nomadwillie
N 44° 25.105 W 072° 01.260
18T E 737156 N 4922664
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Art Gallery and Free Public Library, is at 30 Main St at Eastern Ave in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The dated cornerstone is located right over the entrance
Waymark Code: WMT1VZ
Location: Vermont, United States
Date Posted: 09/11/2016
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Horace Fairbanks presented the St. Johnsbury Athenæum to the people of St. Johnsbury in 1871. Horace Fairbanks was a partner and later president of the E. and T. Fairbanks Company, the scale manufacturing company whose development influenced the history and growth of St. Johnsbury, and Vermont Governor from 1866-1868. New York architect John Davis Hatch III designed the Athenæum in French Second Empire style.
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