This two story, wood frame, gable front building, with entrance porch, and side wing, was built ca. 1885.1 Charles R. Haywood, appears to have owned the building in 1890, and leased it as rental property for workers. Hayward came to Burlington from Rutland in 1873 to manage the marble mill of the Burlington Manufacturing Company.2 In the succeeding years, he became a prosperous industrialist who founded several businesses and built many homes on large tracts of land that he owned in the area between Pine and St. Paul Streets, south of Maple.3 The earliest known residents of this building were the family of William Fernette, in 1889.4
1 Cramer, Adele, Historic Sites and Structures Survey of 240 Pine Street, Burlington, prepared for the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, November 2, 1977.
2 Blow, David J., Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods (Burlington: Chittenden County Historical Society, 1991) 122-123.
3 Ibid.
4 Burlington City Directory 1889-1890, Including Directory of Winooski (Burlington, VT: Free Press Association, 1889).