129 North Champlain Street

c. 1850

 

By Eliot H. Lothrop

This house was listed on the Historic Sites and Structures Survey (HSSS) in 1978. It was built for Peter Reager around 1850. The HSSS claims that Mr. Reager may have also built the house. This is peculiar however, because Reager was a mason and the house is only a brick veneer a timber frame.1 The Presdee and Edwards map shows a house on the location and notes that it belonged to P. Reager.2 Reager's son, Philip, inherited the house when his father died in 1875. Phillip was a mason, like his father and lived in the house for ten years after his father died.3

It faces North Champlain Street with its gable end, in the back there is a small wing. Two Tuscan columns support the front entrance porch.

1 Historic Sites & Structures Survey, 1978. #78-A-147. 129 North Champlain St. Burlington, VT. Bailey-Howe Library Special Collections, UVM.
2 1853 Presdee and Edwards map. Burlington, VT. Bailey-Howe Library Special Collections, UVM.
3 Historic Sites & Structures Survey, 1978. #78-A-147. 129 North Champlain St. Burlington, VT. Bailey-Howe Library Special Collections, UVM.