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Facing east on North Street at the intersection of North Champlain Street. August 1930. (18T 0641700 UTM 4927234)
McAllister would take another image from nearly the same spot after much of the work was completed. This image offers very little in the way of views of buildings not shown in the previous two images, however we know are presented with a scene of very different North Street. The “old electric rails” are gone, replaced by the bus of the “Burlington Rapid Transit Company”, which has stopped in the middle of the intersection to have its picture taken. [1] The driver rested his elbow on the wheel and looks out though and open door at the photographer. The change from public transportation fueled by electricity to mass transit powered by gasoline has occurred in the Burlington in August of 1930. The nation's obsession with the automobile was running to catch up and the neighborhood would be changed forever; the loss of the electric rail line was only the beginning.
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Facing east on North Street at the intersection of North Champlain Street. October 2005. (18T 0641700 UTM 4927234) The current image of the commercial building at 146-148 North Champlain Street reveals a certain lose of its former grandeur. The first floor commercial space has been shifted from the North Champlain Street side to the North Street and stained clapboards have replaced the painted ones from the second story window line down. From that window line up, the building has been altered very little. The pilasters and bracketed cornice survive, as do the flat lintels above the windows and peaked lintel above the center window on the North Champlain street side. The two-story brick building at 144 North Champlain Street has changed very little with exception of the ornamental concrete work made to resemble stone that has been added to the first floor of the buildings brick surface. Currently Vantage Press operates in the buildings commercial space. Modern additions have been placed on the rear of the building facing North Street.
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North Street between North Champlain Street and Elmwood Avenue
Historic Burlington Project Burlington 1890 | Burlington 1877 | Burlington 1869 | Burlington 1853 | Burlington 1830 Produced by University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program graduate students in HP 206 Researching Historic Structures and Sites - Prof. Thomas Visser in collaboration with UVM Landscape Change Program Historic images courtesy of Louis L. McAllister Photograph Collection University of Vermont Library Special Collections |