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The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a subscription library, museum, rare book repository and research center founded in 1747, and located at 50 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The building, designed by Peter Harrison and completed in March 1750, was the first purposely built library in the United States, and the oldest neo-Classical ...
The Newport Reading Room was founded in 1854 by William Shepard Wetmore, a wealthy China trade merchant, and several other notable Newporters, including Yankee traders and Southern planters who summered in Newport. [2] Several of the managing stock holders were full-time Rhode Island residents while others were summer residents. [3]
Abraham Redwood (February 15, 1709 – March 7, 1788) was a West Indies merchant, slave trader, plantation owner, and philanthropist from Newport, Rhode Island. He is the namesake of the Redwood Library and Anthenaeum, one of the oldest libraries in the United States. Redwood was the President of the Redwood Library and Anthenaeum from 1747 to ...
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Location of Newport County in Rhode Island. ... Redwood Library. October 15, 1966 : 50 Bellevue Ave. Newport: 87: Rhode Island Red: Rhode Island Red. October 19, 2001 ...
Newport, Rhode Island. ... Continue the history-and-culture tour at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, the oldest continuously operating library in the U.S., which dates back to 1750. Need to work ...
Redwood Library and Athenaeum: Newport: Newport: Private library, oldest library building in the U.S. Rhode Island Historical Society: Providence: Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society library Robert Beverly Hale Library South Kingstown: Washington: Ocean State Libraries: Robert L. Carothers Library: Kingston: Washington
The school library fight comes to Rhode Island On Thursday, Feb. 29, Rep. Jennifer Stewart − a history teacher from Pawtucket who is no stranger to controversy − went to bat for a bill (H7386 ...