North Winooski Avenue

Throughout the late nineteenth-century, North Winooski Avenue had been developing quickly, and soon became a major transportation route for the Burlington area.  By 1890, the northern end of the avenue was becoming filled with rows of housing for new immigrant workers.

As can be seen by the accompanying historical photographs,[1] the street car lines for the Winooski and Burlington Horse Railroad Company used to run up North Winooski Avenue.  While the company was created in 1872, the first horse railroad in the state, nothing “effectual” was done until 1885.[2]

Many of the buildings that had been put up during this period no longer exist on North Winooski Avenue, having been demolished to make room for newer commercial buildings.

[1] Preservation Vermont,http://www.homestead.com/preservationburlington/main.html.”  Burlington Vermont area Arts and Humanities History and Museums, http://clydemoore.org/arts-and-humanities/history-and-museums/.

[2] Rann, History of Chittenden County, Vermont, 489-490.

  

Photographs - Historic

(Left)North Winooski Avenue, Burlington, Vermont, 1928.  Found in drawer 2-19.89 in Special Collections, Bailey-Howe Library, University of Vermont.  Also found online at Preservation Burlington: http://www.homestead.com/preservationburlington/main.html.  Accessed 13 November 2004.

(Right)Burlington Trolley.  “Directory of Burlington, Vermont area web sites and Information.”  Burlington Vermont area Arts and Humanities History and Museums.  October 2003.  http://clydemoore.org/arts-and-humanities/history-and-museums/.  Accessed 13 November 2004. (No source attributed.)