Barre Downtown Historic District
The Barre Downtown Historic District encompasses the historic commercial and civic heart of the city of Barre, Vermont. Extending along Main Street from City Park to Depot Square, this area was developed quite rapidly in the 1880s and 1890s, when the area experienced rapid growth due to the expansion of the nearby granite quarries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Aldrich Public Library and Barre Opera House.
Aldrich Public Library
Library
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The Aldrich Public Library is the public library serving the city of Barre, Vermont. It is located at 6 Washington Street in the city center, in an architecturally distinguished Classical Revival building constructed in 1907–08 with funds bequested by Leonard Frost Aldrich, a local businessman, and was substantially enlarged in 2000.
Barre Opera House
Theater building
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The Barre Opera House is an opera house in Barre, Vermont, USA. It is located in the Barre City Hall and Opera House, a historic government building at 6 North Main Street in downtown Barre, Vermont.
Socialist Labor Party Hall
Protected area
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The Socialist Labor Party Hall at 46 Granite Street, Barre, Vermont was constructed in 1900. It was a location for debates among anarchists, socialists, and union leaders over the future direction of the labor movement in the United States in the early 20th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barre and Currier Park Historic District.
Barre
Barre is a city in Central Vermont. It is well known for its granite quarries and is considered the "Granite Capital of the World".
Currier Park Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Currier Park Historic District encompasses a historic late 19th-century affluent residential area of the city of Barre, Vermont. Centered around Currier Park, a rectangular park laid out in 1883 just east of the city's downtown, are a collection of a high quality predominantly Italianate and Queen Anne Victorian residences.
Websterville
Hamlet
Websterville is a census-designated place in the town of Barre, Washington County, Vermont, United States. The population of the CDP was 550 at the 2010 census. Websterville is situated 3 miles southeast of Barre Downtown Historic District.
Barre Downtown Historic District
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: historic district in Vermont, United States
- Categories: historic district, historic site, and locality
- Location: Washington, Vermont, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
44.19792° or 44° 11′ 53″ northLongitude
-72.50191° or 72° 30′ 7″ westElevation
623 feet (190 metres)Open location code
87P95FXX+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 356556376OpenStreetMap feature
historic=districtOpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
5233507Wikidata ID
Q4863283
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