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©1996 UVM Historic Preservation Program Revised 4/96 by Gabrielle Bourgerie
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This flat roofed, 4x2 bay, two story, Queen Anne commercial building has an irregular plan with a rear ell. The foundation is stone and walls are covered with asphalt shingles. A modillion cornice divides the first and second stories on the front facade. The projecting cornice is embellished with seven small scrolled brackets placed between larger ones. The windows are 2/2 with plain surrounds and flat- arched lintels. The first story has two large store front windows with an aluminum, recessed door and transom light at the center bay and a single-light paneled door at the right corner. The picture windows and doors have plain surrounds. A steel rod sign post projects from the second story and is attached to the building with wires, although there is no sign currently hanging.
35a) Outbuilding, c. 1920
A four-bay garage features batten board double doors with cross braces, attached with hinges at the horizontal brace of each door. A long board separates the doors from openings above the doors which have been infilled. The garage has board and batten siding, a shed roof and parapet.
The building dates from the heyday of North Street's commercial activity. The flat- roofed, bracketed commercial building is typical of many such structures built in Burlington's Old North End at the end of the nineteenth century. The first record of its use was in 1900; it was a commercial space on the first floor used by Willis Vandewater for a creamery, and a laborer and a shoemaker rented residential apartments upstairs. It is a classic example of an inexpensive, multi-use property. The building is listed on the Burlington Register of Historic Resources.
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©1996 UVM Historic Preservation Program
Revised 4/96 by Gabrielle Bourgerie
histpres@moose.uvm.edu
URL: http://moose.uvm.edu/~histpres/nsg1.3.html