text and photo by Gregory A. Tisher, fall 2004
42 Hayward Street is a west facing, two-story, gable-roofed, modest residential structure. Vermont Historic Sites & Structures Survey [50] suggests a circa 1885 construction date, which is plausible as the City of Burlington approved Hayward Street as a city street in 1883, [51] and that the 1890 Hopkins map [52] of Burlington shows a structure existing in this lot of "Hayward's Plan". Visual similarity to other "Hayward's Plan worker housing" constructed in the mid 1880s to 1890 lends further support.
Like other "Hayward's Plan" structures, 42 Hayward Street's early history was probably that of a rental property, though the house might also have been owner occupied with rooms let out to boarders. Burlington's 1890 city directory lists a number of individuals living on Hayward Street, some with addresses, others without. An example of a person who could have possibly resided here or elsewhere along Hayward Street includes: John King, employed at Charles Hayward's Burlington Manufacturing Company, with his home listed as Hayward Street. [53] Suggestive of the then new neighborhood's rental character and transitory residents, King is not found in the directory even one year later.
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