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75 Hyde Street Building Name, circa 1840s   By Eric L. Martin

Although the origin of this building unknown, its footprint, gable front orientation and peaked wooden lintels suggest it may be the structure depicted on the 1853 Presdee & Edwards map at this location. The 1890 Hopkins map of Burlington lists E. H. Lane, a bookkeeper for Reed & Taylor, as the owner, although he lived at 28 Loomis Street, indicating this building has functioned as a rental property since at least the late nineteenth century (1). Upon E. H. Lane's death in 1896, control of the property passed to his son E. Frank Lane; a 1901 lot map lists E. Frank Lane as the owner of the home, which then contained two apartments occupied by Joseph Lepp, a laborer, and S. Levin, a book and shoe maker on Main Street (2). By 1905 Thomas Reeves had acquired the property for he sold it in July of that year to Harry and Ann Rosenthal, who then lived in one of the building's apartments; in 1907 the property was sold to Jacob, a peddler, and Rebecca Friedman, who also resided in part of the house (3). In 1910 Morris and Fannie Goldman, the last proprietor to live in a part of the residence, purchased the property and added the front porch and the second story sleeping porch by 1919 (4). For $6,500 Arthur and Beverly M. Veniri purchase the property in 1960, only to sell it in 1964 to the current owners, Lawrence J. and Joanne P. Parkard, for $7,500 (5).