71 North Winooski Avenue
The Historic Sites and Structures Survey calls this building a "common Greek Revival house" but goes onto state that the elliptical arch in the gable end is a hold-over from the Federal period(15). The 1830 Young map shows a two, lone structures on White Street just to the west of the cemetery on Elmwood Avenue. In the subsequent years White Street, which later became Winooski Ave. and then North Winooski Ave. north of Pearl Street, became a fashionable professional district lined with the homes of doctors, lawyers and merchants; many of whom built in the Greek Revival style. Thus as a result this area proved very difficult to identify a building footprint over the years due to the proliferation of similar building footprints and styles. This uncertainty combined with the evidence could once again lead to the conclusion that this structure was built before 1850, 1840 or even 1830.
The first known resident of this building is James Brinsmaid a successful jeweler who lived here until his death in 1887; when he first moved there is a mystery(16). It is possible that he had this house built in the 1840s or even that he moved into a pre-existing 1830s structure.