Bright Street

Bright Street is a single block running north-south from Riverside Avenue (formerly First Street) to Archibald Street.  Like the rest of the Old North End in Burlington, the 1880s and 1890s were a booming time for this area.  There was an influx of immigrant works, and the block was nearly full when the 1890 map was drawn.  The Queen City Soap Works, located on Riverside Avenue, employed many Russian immigrants, mainly Jewish, who lived in the area near the synagogue on Archibald Avenue.[1]

[1] Liebs, ed, The Burlington Book: Architecture, History, Future, 11.