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This Day in Boston History
February 17th, 1807
Boston Athenæum
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On this day
one of the oldest and most distinguished independent libraries in the
United States was founded by fourteen Boston gentlemen. They sought to
create an establishment similar to that of the Athenæum and Lyceum
of Liverpool in Great Britain,
For nearly
half a century the Athenæum was the unchallenged center of intellectual
life in Boston, and by 1851 it had become one of the five largest libraries
in the United States. Both Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and
its public library trace their roots to the foundation of the Athenæum.
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