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Barre is a city in . It is well known for its granite quarries and is considered the "Granite Capital of the World".
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  • Type: City with 8,490 residents
  • Description: city in Washington County, Vermont, United States
  • Also known as: “Barre, Vermont” and “Barre, VT”
  • Postal code: 05641
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Aldrich Public Library and Socialist Labor Party Hall.

Library
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The 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.

Protected area
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The 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 in the early 20th century.

Theater building
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The is an opera house in Barre, , 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barre Downtown Historic District and Currier Park Historic District.

Neighborhood
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The 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.

Neighborhood
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The 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.

Barre

Latitude
44.1969° or 44° 11′ 49″ north
Longitude
-72.5007° or 72° 30′ 3″ west
Population
8,490
Elevation
636 feet (194 metres)
IATA airport code
MPV
Open location code
87P95FWX+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158826365
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5233500
Wiki­data ID
Q26071
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Barre” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Barre, Vermont”
  • Afrikaans: “Barre”
  • Arabic: “باري”
  • Basque: “Barre”
  • Breton: “Barre”
  • Catalan: “Barre”
  • Cebuano: “Barre”
  • Chechen: “Барр”
  • Chinese: “巴里”
  • Cornish: “Barre, Vermont”
  • Cornish: “Barre”
  • Czech: “Barre”
  • Dagbani: “Barre”
  • Danish: “Barre”
  • Dutch: “Barre”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بارى”
  • Esperanto: “Barre”
  • Finnish: “Barre”
  • French: “Barre”
  • German: “Barre”
  • Irish: “Barre, Vermont”
  • Irish: “Barre”
  • Italian: “Barre”
  • Japanese: “バリ”
  • Ladin: “Barre”
  • Malagasy: “Barre, Vermont”
  • Malagasy: “Barre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barre”
  • Norwegian: “Barre”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barre”
  • Persian: “باری، ورمانت”
  • Persian: “باری”
  • Polish: “Barre”
  • Portuguese: “Barre”
  • Russian: “Барр”
  • Russian: “Барре-сити”
  • Russian: “Барре”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Barre, Vermont”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Barre”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barre, Vermont”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barre”
  • Slovak: “Barre”
  • Slovenian: “Barre”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بار، ورمونت”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بارى”
  • Spanish: “Barre, Vermont”
  • Spanish: “Barre”
  • Swedish: “Barre City”
  • Swedish: “Barre, Vermont”
  • Swedish: “Barre”
  • Tatar: “Барр”
  • Turkish: “Barre, Vermont”
  • Turkish: “Barre”
  • Ukrainian: “Барр”
  • Urdu: “بارر، ورمونٹ”
  • Urdu: “بارر”
  • Volapük: “Barre”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barre, Vermont”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barre”
  • Welsh: “Barre, Vermont”
  • Welsh: “Barre”

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