UVM National Register North Street Burlington Vermont
University of Vermont
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North Street Historic District
Burlington, Vermont
(#49) 132-136 North Street / c.1889 / Peters House
This building is two attached dwellings that command the corner of North and Rose Streets. The North Street oriented dwelling is a two-story, 4 x 4 bay south facing building. It has unusual massing and an altered gable roof line due to a full dormer built out on the north facade The canted corner double door entrance, window sash and the roof on the south facade appear historic. The first story wall construction is stucco and the second story vinyl clapboard. There is an exterior brick chimney on the east gable facade. Two doors on North Street serve walkup apartments as well as a single door on Rose Street. Attached to the north side and oriented to Rose Street is a second two-story 4 x 4 bay, vinyl clad flat-roofed east facing dwelling. It has a two-story central bay entrance and covered porch. It too is divided into apartments.
The 1889 Sanborn Map shows this building was a fish market and two dwellings. In 1898-99 Joseph Peters, Jr., an employee of W. & G. Crane Co. and Ed Lavallee, a tailor, lived here. The 1900 Sanborn Map shows this building at the corner of North Street and Rose Street was the center of three businesses - a tailor, fruit merchant and cobbler. In 1906 and 1912 there was a grocery store and cobbler. Then there was a lull in business until 1930 when Guy E. Hosmer opened a grocery store. By 1933 it was listed as the North Street Public Market. The Caise Children's Shop was one of the last businesses listed in business in 1946. It is a solid anchor on the north west corner of North Street and Rose and provided for the daily marketing needs of the neighborhood for over 35 years.
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Prepared by Elaine Park
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