St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

  • Main Street, Saint Johnsbury, Northeast Kingdom, Vermont
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The St. Johnsbury Athen�um, named for Athena, goddess of wisdom, is a free public library & art gallery. The Athenaeum was given to the town by Horace Fairbanks, whose family invented the platform scale. The gracious Victorian reading ... more on 1-800-vermont.com

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This museum has fine Hudson River School paintings by Jasper Cropsey,Asher Durand,Worthington Whittredge,Sanford Gifford,and the Harts. more on TripAdvisor

Located on Main Street, this magnificent Second Empire building was designed by John Davis Hatch for Horace Fairbanks in 1871 as a public library. more on igougo

Admission is free,but I gave the museum a small donation in support of the museum staff's wonderful work. more on TripAdvisor

This museum has fine nineteenth century European paintings by these relatively obscure,but adept painters-Eugene Verboeckhoeven (Sheep),Felix Ziem (Venice),Pierre Coomans (Aphasia),Andreas Asch ... more on TripAdvisor

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