222 North Street

This one-and-one-half story, cross-gable house sits midway along north side of North Street, between North Winooski and Intervale Avenues.  The house features two-over-two, double hung sash windows, aluminum siding, stone foundation, slate roof with raking eaves, balloon frame construction, and a small, central chimney.  There are two porches with battered, shingled half walls, each at intersection of the cross-gables on the northeast and southeast corners.  The entrance is found on the left side of the front facade, through the front porch, which is characterized by its Tuscan column posts.¹  There is an addition off the back end of the house. 

Aside from the aluminum siding, which replaced the original clapboards, little seems to have changed from the original structure.  The remaining features are very characteristic of the 1870s.

The current footprint of the house matches the 1885 footprint, showing little to no change over the past century.

No information could be found regarding the original occupant.  Eugene Chausse and his family inhabited the house from around 1886-1929.²  Eugene was a shoemaker at 180 Bank Street, his son Eugene jr., was a clerk at 195 North Street and later a grocer at 145 Elmwood Avenue, and his daughter Lydia, was a bookkeeper.³ 

See house on 1877 Birds-Eye Map