Landmarks

St. Johnsbury Anthanaeum

The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum is a private, nonprofit public library and art gallery located in St. Johnsbury , Vermont . The Athenaeum fills two roles: it serves the people of St. Johnsbury by enriching their lives, and it stands as a regional and national treasure - a monument to the nineteenth-century belief in learning. The Athenaeum is a legacy of the Fairbanks Family of St. Johnsbury, inventors and manufacturers of the world's first platform scale, who gave the Athenaeum to the town of St. Johnsbury in 1871.