30 Main St., St. Johnsbury, Vermont. County/parish: Caledonia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 18, 1996. NRIS 96000970.
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The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum (often written St. Johnsbury Athenæum) is a combined library and art gallery, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. The building in which it is housed is architecturally and historically significant because of its construction. The Athenaeum is also noted for the American landscape paintings and books in its collection and its having been funded by Horace Fairbanks, manufacturer of the world's first platform scale. The art collection contains a number of Hudson River School paintings. This building retains a strong Victorian (French Second Empire) flavor of the 19th century.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84284866