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328 Pearl Street circa 1835-1845   By Eric L. Martin

This late Federal style house with a brick rear wing was constructed between 1835 and 1845 (1). "A large, brick structure," at north end of Willard Street, then Shelburne Street, on the 1830 Ammi B. Young map, housed Eleazer H. Demings' store and was purchased in 1828 by Sidney Barlow (2). According to the Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods, this store may have been dismantled between 1834 and 1836, and its bricks used to construct this house to the east of the original structure. Ellen Platt, daughter of Sidney Barlow and widow of the late George K. Platt, who died in 1857, is the first recorded resident (3). She lived here until her death in 1883, when Emory C. Mower, who later became president of the Burlington Grocery Company, purchased the property and replaced the front entrance door. He and his wife lived here until her death in 1925, when the Athena Club, a national women's social group, purchased the home to use as its Club House, which had been previously located at 187 Pearl Street (4). In 1935 the barn on the property was purchased by Francis H. Killery, who moved it to nearby 9 Adsit Court and converted it to a residence (5). By 1942 the small entrance portico had been added, and the second floor housed apartments by 1960. A small, wooden addition to the north of the brick wing was added after 1978.