Looking west on North Street at the intersection of Elmwood Avenue, circa 1938, map cooridinate: 78m 18T 0642042 UTM 4927265

This image, facing west on North Street at the corner of Elwood Avenue, offers a slightly closer view of the business and buildings on North Street after the major construction of the 1930's. Here we see shoppers on the streets in front of the thriving business.  Two men stand outside the store on the right corner and in the distance is visible the seventy foot tower of the Lawrence Barnes School. [1]

Close inspection of the photograph reveals that the storefront windows of 202 North Street are lined with posters advertising a circus, and a three-foot tall cowboy boot sits at the entrance to Bloomberg’s Shoe Store on the left side of the street.

 

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[1] Sanborn-Perris Map. Burlington, Vermont 1926.

 

Looking west on North Street at the intersection of Elmwood Avenue, October 2005, map cooridinate: 78m 18T 0642042 UTM 4927265.

The image here, taken in October of 2005 reveals a very different street.  Again we see that the only buildings to survive the fires of the 1970’s are the 1904 Gosselin building at 194 North Street and the two-and-one-half-story, 19th century, gable-roofed building at 184 North Street.

  These images paired together offer a good comparison of the ornamental street poles installed during the 1930’s construction and those installed during recent street work.

 

North Street between North Champlain Street and Elmwood Avenue

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Produced by University of Vermont Historic Preservation Program graduate students
in HP 206 Researching Historic Structures and Sites - Prof. Thomas Visser
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