Main Street: Northeast from South Willard Street Intersection UTM: 180642717E; 4926325N |
 Louis McAllister c. 1926-1936 |
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This Queen Anne-style house, 144 South Willard, is located on the northeast corner of Main and South Willard Streets, within the Main Street-College Street Historic District. The district’s National Register nomination states that it was built for Mrs. Horace Clapp in 1881. Edwin L. Ingalls, Director of the University of Vermont Boys and Girls Club, lived here throughout the era that this photo could have been taken, 1926-1936.[1] Behind 144 South Willard is #138 (circa 1926), with its 1-story, 6/6, glass-enclosed southern sun porch. The building appears on the 1926 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map but did not exist on the previous map, in 1919.[2] In the 1926 city directory, William H. Collins, Treasurer of the W. G. Reynolds Co., is listed as the first resident at this location. Judging by the Burlington directory, Collins died sometime in 1937, but his widow, Emma A. Collins, continued to live here through 1936, the last possible year the photo could have been taken. Glimpses of 360 Main Street can be spotted up the hill and to the right of the 144 South Willard. Please click here to see more about 360 Main Street.
[1] Burlington City Directory, 1926, 1936 (Burlington: H. A. Manning Co., 1916-1986) |
Today, with the exception of a wider street and fewer tall trees, this area of Willard Street remains largely the same. For one thing, people still enjoy riding bicycles.
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Historic Burlington Project Depression Era Streetscapes: Old North End | 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 University of Vermont Library Special Collections, Louis L. McAllister Photograph Collection |
