184–88 The opera house block, built 1848
Two bookshops, a library and a cinema.
They sit a few hundred yards apart on the same street, with the library in an 1842 house between them, Barnum in bronze outside, and the cinema still running at the top.
On the avenue
Rainy Day Paperback Exchange
A used bookstore, the avenue's second bookshop.
178
Byrd's Books
The independent bookshop at 178, in an Italianate block the National Register dates to about 1860.
178-82 Greenwood Avenue: c.1860, Italianate. A contributing building in the Greenwood Avenue Historic District.
On the avenue
P.T. Barnum
189
Bethel Public Library
The library occupies the Seth Seelye House, built about 1842 and listed on the National Register in its own right.
189 Greenwood Avenue: 1842, Greek Revival. A contributing building in the Greenwood Avenue Historic District.
269
Bethel Cinema
An independent cinema at the upper end of the avenue.