BOSTON ATHENAEUM
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- Age: 219 years
- ID: 15882584/133
10½ Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108
The Boston Athenaeum - a unique combination of library, museum, and cultural center in a magnificent landmark building...
The Boston Athenaeum is a member-supported not-for-profit institution that everyone is invited to join...
Founded in 1807, the Boston Athenaeum evolved out of an organization known as the Anthology Society, formed in 1805 by a group of Bostonians who produced a magazine called The Monthly Anthology and Boston Review. They created the Boston Athenaeum to form an establishment "combining the advantages of a public library [and] containing the great works of learning and science in all languages."