This four-story brick High Victorian Italianate building is one of several within the Wells-Richardson Complex Historic District, which is bordered by Main Street on the south, College Street on the north, Pine Street on the west, and St. Paul Street on the east. n 1883 the Wells-Richardson Building was built at 127 College Street as the main laboratory and offices of this drug and medicine manufacturing firm.2 In 1872 the Wells Richardson Company succeeded Henry & Company with Edward Wells, A.E. Richardson, and W.J. Van Patten as the first members of the firm. Later, Henry Wells and F.H. Wells, Edward’s brothers, joined the firm.3 Today the Wells-Richardson Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is occupied by Bennington Potters and other renters.
The gentlemen of the Wells-Richardson Company (excluding B.B. Smalley) Round About Burlington: Familiar Faces and Places 4
Burlington Directory 1881 – 1883
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1. Mary Ann DiSpirito and David Robinson, ed. Images of America, Burlington Vol. II (Charlestown: Acadia Publishing, 1999), 53.
2. Emma Jane Saxe, National Register of Historic Places: Wells-Richardson Complex Historic District (Montpelier, Vermont, 1978), 5.
3. Ibid, 1.
4. Charles S. Lord, Round About Burlington (Winooski, VT: Vermont Illustrating Co., 1900), 5.
