The Useless Digest A Free Weekly dose of Facts, Quotes, History and more - direct to your inbox. This unique experience takes place at the Haskell Free Library and Opera House that straddles the Vermont-Quebec border.
Officials say it's the only public institution in the world that straddles a border like that.
Not, was built between 1901 and 1904 and sits in the communities of Derby Line, Vermont and Rock Island, Quebec. When you walk into the building you even see a boundary line painted on the floor running through the reading room and the 400-seat opera house. The entrance to the library is in the U.S., but the 16,000 volumes of books in the stack room are wholly in Canada. And the stage and few seats of the opera house are in Canada while most of the seats are in America. The first show in the building, which was modelled on the old Boston Opera House, was in 1904 and featured The Columbian Minstrels.