Nantucket -- The upstairs "Great Hall" serves here as a utilitarian reading room but was built to seat 600 and has a stage at the rear. Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the first lecturers here in 1847. Each year a set of lectures would be offered as a course, costing $1. Other notables who taught these courses included Thoreau and Audubon. Ex-slave and leading abolitionist Frederick Douglass also spoke here.
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