The Providence Athenaeum, founded in 1753 in Providence, Rhode Island, is the fourth oldest subscription library in the United States. Only the Library Company of Philadelphia, founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, Newport's Redwood Library and Athenaeum, founded in 1747, and the Charleston Library Society, founded in 1748, are older. The Providence Athenaeum predates the New York Society Library, founded in 1754, and the Boston Athenaeum, founded in 1807.
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