Redwood Library And Athenaeum
Boston, Greater Boston
The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is America's first purpose-built library, founded in 1747. It is the oldest continuously operating library in its original location. The library serves as a subscription library, museum, rare book repository, and research center. It is located at 50 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.
Reviews & write-ups
- New York Times ↗ — “Visitors to the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, the oldest lending library in America, can survey at close range the 755 titles in the ...”
- InCollect ↗ — “Whereas Abraham Redwood, Esquire, hath generously engaged to bestow five hundred pounds sterling, to be laid out in a collection of useful books for a Public Library in Newport.”
- Chris Wolak ↗ — “The staff was very friendly. The Reading Room at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island.”
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