text and photo by Gregory A. Tisher, fall 2004
A contributing structure within the South Union Street Historic District, 401-405 South Union Street is an east facing, hip roofed two story residential structure with prominent octagonal three story tower on the southeast corner of the front façade.
Both the South Union Street Historic District's National Register of Historic Places nomination [202] and Vermont Historic Sites & Structures Survey [203] indicate that Burlington architect A. B. Fisher designed 401-05 South Union Street for William W. Weaver in 1884. Historic Sites & Structures Survey [204] furthermore suggests Elmore Johnson as the structure's builder and an $8,000 construction cost.
Burlington's city directories list William W. Weaver, a bookkeeper with the local branch of the Albany, New York-headquartered lumber firm of Bronsons, Weston, Dunham & Company, residing at 44 Battery Place in 1884-85 [205] and at 401-05 South Union Street in the 1886-87 volume. [206] He resided at this address until 1892, when the city directory lists him having moved to Somerville, Massachusetts. [207] Weaver's household also included at least one hired hand as a Miss Malvina Shepard, with W.W. Weaver listed as employer, is found in the 1890 city directory. [208]
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