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Bennington Seminary’s long decline and later rebirth as a library
The Bennington Center academy and seminary endured through a century of change. Its buildings housed church meetings and a famed John Fay choir, then fell victim to fires and a shifting population. By 1897 the district school left, the Old Academy became the Old Academy Library Association property, and a private library evolved with missing endowment. Today the brick academy houses a small library, with trustees and volunteers keeping it alive while the hill’s population relies on downtown resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swift
Hinsdell
Ballards
Michigan
Ballard
First Church
Academy
John Fay
Ethan Allen
Bennington Seminary
Connecticut
Gordon Hayes
Hayeses
George W. Yates
Hayes
Yates
Mount Anthony Seminary
Yateses
East Bennington
Bennington
Abraham Lincoln
Seminary
Banner
Marshall Carter Hall
Hiland
Hall
Williamstown
Vicksburg
Nashville
Bennington Center
Saratoga
John Wool Griswold
Troy
Griswold
Mount Anthony
James C. Colgate
Colgate
Clark
John G. McCullough
F. B. Jennings
George Worthington
Sayre McLeod
P. B. Jennings
Hall Park McCullough
James Eddy
Bennington College
North Bennington
Alfred Robinson
George W. Robinson
Mount Anthony Towers
Samuel Sanford
Daniel Robinson
Gen. Robinson
Old Academy Library Association
Mary Sanford
Bennington Free Library
Brick Academy
Seth Hunt
Trenor Park
Old Academy Association
Trustees of
Old Bennington