Built c. 1890
This stone foundation, wood frame tenement is one of three tenement houses in the Shaw Block area. It is located halfway between the intersections of Willow St. and Oak Street onto Intervale Ave. Like the others, it is a two story structure with five over eight bays. There is rectangular block massing and a flat roof. The first story extension is bay window-like and stretches across half of the façade. The two over two sash appears throughout the building and has plain trim. As with the other tenements, there is a projecting bracketed box cornice where the only ornamentation appears with wood paneling beneath and in-between the brackets. A porch extends across the rear of building. [1]
Patrick Fournier is listed on the 1890 Hopkins Map on this property, though he lives at 374 Winooski Ave in 1889 and 1890 according to the Burlington City Directories.[2] As the structure is working class housing, it is likely that the owner would not live in that building. The 1902 directories list Adolphus Leblance, a worker in the Champlain Manufacturing Company’s furniture and cabinet factory, and Solomon Bissette, a retired laborer as residents at this address.[3]
[1] Vermont Historic Sites and Structures Survey. Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, 1978 and 1983. Found at University of Vermont Library, Special Collections, and also on CD at University of Vermont, vol. 43.
[2] G.M. Hopkins, C.E., Map of the city of Burlington Vermont from official Records, Private plans and Actual Surveys (Philadelphia: Hopkins, 1890).
Burlington City Directory 1889-1890, including Directory of Winooski. Burlington, VT: The Free Press Association, 1889.
Burlington City Directory for 1890, including a Business Directory and Directory of Winooski. L. P. Waite & Co, Publishers. Burlington, VT: The Free Press Association, 1890.
[3] Burlington City Directory for 1902, including Winooski and South Burlington. L. P Waite & Co, Publishers. Burlington, VT: The Free Press Association, 1902.