The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-03-25
Historical Memorials and New
Buildings in Bennington
NUMBER or BOTH REMARKABLE
Town Figured Prominently in Early
History OF State and Has En-
joyed Building Boom.


expects to entertain large number
OF visitors on Good Roads Day next
Tuesday, it is perhaps fitting to cite
few of the attractions and to des-
cribe briefly some of the points OF in
terest in this immediate locality.
Without Boosting it can be said that
no town in the state figured so prom
inently in the early history OF Yer
mont as Bennington and to commem-
crate the most prominent event of
that period the Bennington battle mon
ument was erected at Old Benning-
ton The memorial is the highest bat
tie monument in the world Near it
stands the Seth Warner monument
erected to the memory of the captain
OF the Green Mountain boys and pre-
scented to the state by the late DIN
Scott OF this village Another inter
esting memorial at Old Bennington Is
the Garrison marker, in granite and
bronze, located near the site of lit
tie building in which the Great EN-
ancipator, William Lloyd Garrison,
when a young man published week
~ newspaper, the Vermont Gazette.
The Vermont Soldiers home is To-
Gated in Bennington and in the large
buildings in the northern section Of
the village there are at present nearly
a hundred OF the men who half cent
ury and NOR ago responded to the
call of President Lincoln to preserve
the best government on earth.
Bennington, during the past decade
has had a remarkable growth in the
way of public and semi-public bald
ings and some Of theSe structures
may perhaps be viewed for the first
time by portion of the citizens o.
the county who will be in town next
Tuesday. The most prominent OF
these structures, OF course, is the new
federal building in which the post
Office has recently been established.
It. is a beautiful structure, built Of
Vermont marble and its plan is one
that is being extensively followed in
the construction of public buildings
for small communities throughout the
country.
Bennington people just now take
more pride in their new high school
building on Main street than in any
other public structure. This buildins.
in which the meetings next Tuesday
will be held, is as thoroughly up to-
date as it is possible to construct
school house. Its heating and yentil
Ating arrangements are far in adyan
of the methods used in buildings other
than those of the most recent ICONS
truction and its interior appointments
are both practical and pleasing.
Two new churches have been blilt
in Bennington during the past decade
the Methodist and st. Peters Episco-
pal, and two, the Second Congregation
al and Baptist, have been thoroughly
remodeled as to interiors during that
space of time An exceptionally strik
ing work in church architecture is St
Francis de Sales church on Maia
street. Another prominent building
is the St. Francis parochial school on
North street.
This village is one of the few in the
state i (which the Y NJ. C. A. is
housed in its own building. The
home of the association at the corner
of Main and School streets is a mon
ument to the public spirit of the com
munity which raised the money by
subscription for its construction.
Bennington has two moving picture
theatres, one at Library theatre at the
corner of Main and Silver streets and
conducted by John B. Harte, and the
other on North street owned and OF.
Grated by James II. Whitney. Some
of the best films produced in the
country are used in the picture pro-
auctions at these houses of amuse-
ment.