Posted in Vermont
August 31, 2017
We Guarantee You’ve Never Seen A Library Like This One In Vermont Before
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House (Otherwise known as Bibliothèque et salle d’opéra Haskell) is a Library and Opera House that is located directly on the USA/Canadian border. But this positioning was no mistake. It was built on the international border line so that Canadians and Americans would have equal access to the Library and Opera House and so they chose to build on the border. Let’s take a look at this fascinating building that is totally unique.
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No, not that Martha Stewart!
The opera house was rumored to be modeled after the old Boston Opera House in a scaled down fashion which seats 400 people, but the Boston Opera house was built afterwards.
Just outside the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in VT is a row of flower pots in a small Vermont town that means more than you realize.
