United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
Continuation Sheet
Section number 7
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Women's Center, 34 South Williams St. 1928.
The Colonial Revival building is located at 34 South Williams Street in Burlington. The main building is a two and one-half story, 2 x 3 bay brick (common bond) block house with a garage to the rear. The hipped roof is marked by a shed dormer and a enclosed chimney, on each of the north and south facades. There are two additions consisting of an enclosed porch on the rear or east facade, and a shed roof extension at the southwest corner. A porch-like overhang supported at each end by a large bracket extends the full length of the first floor. Two wide steps topped with shale flagstones lead up to a gabled, brick projecting entrance door that interrupts the overhang at the second bay. The door is a wood frame, 3 x 5 paned door topped by a white tracery fanlight. It has a brick header lintel with a granite block at each bottom corner of the light, and a granite keystone. The door is flanked by two die cut black tin scenery coach lamps.
All windows are 6/1 double hung sash unless otherwise stated. The front façade's second floor left bays has one window and two side by side windows in the right bay. The first floor has two side by side window in the left bay, the entrance in the second bay, and a row of three windows on the extension. The first floor windows have white wooden flower boxes the length of the window openings.
On the north façade three basement windows with window one each floor. The center bay also has one window set into the lower half of a large opening with the same lintel and shape as the front entrance. The upper half is filled with a stucco/concrete like brown material. The third floor dormer has two small side by side windows and an enclosed white porch extends toward the east.
The east or rear façade, unlike the front, is two bays on the second floor filled with one window each. The shed roof addition has one small 1/1 window. An enclosed porch runs across the first floor with, vertical, rectangular, recessed panels marking the lower wall. The row of six windows on the porch are 2/2 sash and of varying sizes. One door with a small transom light above it is in the second bay from the left. A row of three windows marks the first floor of the shed roof extension.
The south facade facing the Fletcher Allen University Campus Hospital parking lot, consists of several different sizes and shapes of windows. The third floor matches the dormer from the north facade. In the center bay the second floor has one window with a traced fanlight and lintel matching the main entrance. One small 2/1 window sits between the second and third bays and one window sits in the last bay. The first floor starts at the shed roof addition with a row of four windows. The center bay holds a wooden entrance door with a 3 x 3 paned window in the upper half. Between the first and second story and second and third bays is one small 2/1 stairwell window and a wooden box mounted on the wall. The last bay on the main block is filled by one large pane window with a large splayed lintel. The enclosed porch has two 2/2 row windows filling.
The garage is a brick (common bond) with a gray slate hipped roof. The front (north) facade houses one large main entrance. The west facade facing the main building is four bays wide, the first bay is a 5 recessed panel pedestrian door. The third and fourth bays are filled with the same 6/1 windows as the main building. The south facade has a chimney that starts at the foundation. The east facade matches the facade of the west, without the pedestrian door. The bay that houses the pedestrian door has newer brick than the rest of the building.
This building was built in 1928 by an unknown architect. Mrs. Mary Murphy was the first owner of the building according to the 1928 Burlington Phone Directory. The building was bought by the University of Vermont in 1988 and now houses the University Women's Center.