St. Johnsbury Athenaeum - St. Johnsbury VT
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St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Art Gallery and Free Public Library, is at 30 Main St at Eastern Ave in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Waymark Code: WMT1VY
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.
The library’s book collection, originally consisting of 8,000 finely bound volumes selected with the advice of the noted bibliographer W.F. Poole, has been expanded to include nearly 45,000 volumes. In addition to physical books, the library has magazines, newspapers, DVD movies, CD audio books, e-books and and audio books online, a complete set of the local newspaper on microfilm, pamphlets and paperbacks.
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