This 2 1/2 story, two bay, wood frame, gable front building, which has a wood plank clad façade and shingle siding, a modern one-story side-wing on its south elevation, and a one-story brickface storefront projecting from its façade, was built ca. 1885 for Franklin White at a cost of $1500.1 White was a harness maker, and lived at the site with his family from ca. 1886 until his death ca. 1890.2 Thereafter, the building appears to have served for a time as rental real estate.3 The building was substantially remodeled with the addition of several wings by 1926, and since the 1930s, the building has served as commercial space.4 It was a restaurant from the 1930s until the mid 1940s, and a grocery store in the late 1940s.5 Since the mid 1950s, the building has been the home of an auto paint and supply business.6
1 Burlington City Directory 1886-1887, Including Directory of Winooski. (Burlington, VT: Free Press Association, 1886). See Cramer, Adele, Historic Sites and Structures Survey of 225/227 St. Paul Street, Burlington, prepared for the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, August 23, 1977.
2 Cramer, 225/227 St. Paul Street; Burlington City Directory 1886-1887, Including Directory of Winooski. (Burlington, VT: Free Press Association, 1886); Burlington City Directory for 1890, Including a Business Directory and Directory of Winooski (Burlington, VT: L.P. Waite & Co., 1890); Burlington City Directory for 1891, Including a Business Directory and Directory of Winooski (Burlington, VT: L.P. Waite & Co., 1891).
3 See Burlington City Directory for 1894, Including a Business Directory and Directory of Winooski (Burlington, VT: L.P. Waite & Co., 1894); Burlington City Directory for 1901, Including Winooski and South Burlington (Burlington, VT: L.P. Waite & Co., 1901).
4 See Insurance Maps of Burlington Vermont (New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1912); Insurance Maps of Burlington Vermont (New York: Sanborn Map Co., 1926).
5 See Manning’s Burlington, Winooski and Essex Junction (Vermont) Directory for Year Beginning November 1937 (Springfield, MA: H.A. Manning, 1937); Manning’s Burlington, Winooski and Essex Junction (Vermont) Directory for Year Beginning January 1943 (Springfield, MA: H.A. Manning, 1943); Manning’s Burlington, Winooski and Essex Junction (Vermont) Directory for Year Beginning January 1948 (Springfield, MA: H.A. Manning, 1948).
6 See Manning’s Burlington, Winooski, South Burlington and Essex Junction (Vermont) Directory for Year Beginning January 1956 (Springfield, MA: H.A. Manning, 1956); Manning’s Burlington and South Burlington, Winooski and Essex Junction (Chittenden County, Vermont) Directory 1974 (Greenfield, MA: H.A. Manning, 1974).