athenaeum

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In the 1800s, the Fairbanks brothers moved to town, earning their fortune through the invention and production of the platform scale; they founded a museum, athenaeum and academy, all operating to this day.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2020

The back of his state-issued S.U.V. is stacked with notebooks filled with ideas and data culled from books and articles and conversations with nearly four hundred experts; it’s a kind of rolling athenaeum.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018

But Dotty was not at the athenaeum that night.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 18, 2017

This was on April 20, 2016, the day after a book event at Folio, a brand-new athenaeum in downtown Seattle, where I had been expecting to see Dotty Guth, a former New Yorker colleague.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 18, 2017

He offered him a whole square next to that where the college, the courthouse, the church, the library, the athenaeum, and all the public buildings were situated….

From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Martin, Benj. N.