Lafayette Place

Researched By Todd Goff

 

21 Lafayette Place

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21 Lafayette Place looking southwest in 2004

The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies E.D Wright with this building. [1]The 1889-90 Burlington City Directory lists B.M. Lambkin, an employee of Wells and Richardson Co., as housed at 21 LafayettePlace.[2]  A historic site survey dates the building to1880. [3]

 

25 Lafayette Place


25 Lafayette Place looking west in 2004

The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies J.E. Gauvin with this building. [4]The 1889-90 Burlington City Directory lists J.E. Gauvin of the firm Gavin Bros. rooming on 73 Church Street. 1890 lists the same data showing 73 Church Street as his home and business address. [5] A historic site survey dates the building to 1890.[6]

35 Lafayette Place

35 Lafayette Place looking northwest in 2004

The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies Mrs. M. Page with this building. [7]The 1890 Burlington City Directory lists Mary A. Page as a widow of L.V. and living at 9 Lafayette Place. A historic site survey dates the building to1880.[8]

 

16-18 Lafayette Place

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16-18 Lafayette Place looking east in 2004

The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies H.E. Adams with this building. [9]The 1890 Burlington City Directory lists H.E. Adams living at 220 Pearl Street. The 1889-90 Burlington City Directory notes George E. Davis, secretary and treasurer of the Burlington Shade Roller Co. living at 18 Lafayette.[10] A historic site survey dates the building to 1889 and mentions, “This Vernacular late Queen Anne Style structure was the only multi family building on Lafayette Place until 1910.”[11]

 

 

22 Lafayette Place

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22 Lafayette Place looking northeast in 2004

 The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies R.G. Page with this building. [12]The 1888-89 Burlington City Directory lists R.G. Page as living at 22 Lafayette Place.[13]  He is pictured here from Round About Vermont. The 1890 Directory lists him as owning a sewing machine and supply business at 34 Church Street and still housed at 22 Lafayette Place. [14] A historic site survey dates the building to 1880. [15]

 

 

26 Lafayette Place

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Detail, 26 Lafayette Place (left)

26 Lafayette Place looking northeast in 2004 (right)


The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies Mrs. M. D. Adams with this building. [16]A historic site survey dates the building to 1880.[17] The 1889-90 Burlington City Directory lists Miss Mary O. and Charles Boynton, a chemist for Wells and Richardson Co, as housed at 26 Lafayette Place. [18]

 

30 Lafayette Place

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30 Lafayette Place looking northeast in 2004

The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies Wright & Burnham with this building. [19] The 1890 Burlington City Directory lists L.G. Burnham of Burnham and Grant Co. as Jewelers, opticians, and manufactures and dealers in picture moldings at 71 Church Street. The 1889-90 Burlington City Directory states Edward D., Miss Florence M., and John C. Farrar live at 30 Lafayette Place.  Edward and John were employed at Wells and Richardson and W.H.S. Whitcomb employed John. [20]

 

36 Lafayette Place


36 Lafayette Place looking southwest in 2004

The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies no name with this building. [21] The Burlington City Directories from this period are searched by name, not address.  A future deed search may yield names to search in these directories.


38 Lafayette Place


38 Lafayette Place looking northeast in 2004

The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies this is an outbuilding of a house owned by G.C. Briggs, inset on a parcel of North Union Street. [22] The 1890 Burlington City Directory lists George C. Briggs as a M.D. housed at 43 N. Union Street. [23] A historic site survey dates the building to 1880 and indicates this was the last house to be constructed on Lafayette Place. Karen Czaikowski writes,  “Clark C. Briggs, lawyer and resident of South Union St., is supposed to have used a path across Lafayette Place, to get to his office on Clark Street.  It is believed this encouraged the development of this quiet dead-end road off the middle of Pearl Street.” [24]   Sanborn Insurance maps from 1894 onward show upgrades to the building behind 43 North Union Street, until in 1906 the land is subdivided and this building receives the address of 38 Lafayette Place.

NOTES:

1. G. M. Hopkins, C.E., Map of the City of Burlington Vermont From official Records, Private plans and Actual Surveys (Philadelphia: Hopkins, 1890).

2. Burlington City Directory, 1889-1890.

3. Karen Czaikowski, Historic Sites and Structures Survey, 21 Lafayette Place, Burlington, Vermont. April 1983.

4. Hopkins.

5. Burlington City Directory 1889-90, 1890.

6. Karen Czaikowski, Historic Sites and Structures Survey, 25 Lafayette Place, Burlington, Vermont. April 1983.

7. Hopkins.

8. Karen Czaikowski, Historic Sites and Structures Survey, 35 Lafayette Place, Burlington, Vermont. June 17, 1983.

9. Hopkins.

10. Burlington City Directory, 1889-90, 1890.

11. Karen Czaikowski, Historic Sites and Structures Survey, 16-18 Lafayette Place, Burlington, Vermont. April 1983.

12. Hopkins.

13. Burlington City Directory, 1888-1889.

14. Burlington City Directory, 1890.

15. Karen Czaikowski, Historic Sites and Structures Survey, 22 Lafayette Place, Brlington, Vermont. April 1983.

16. Hopkins.

17. Karen Czaikowski, Historic Sites and Structures Survey, 26 Lafayette Place, Burlington, Vermont. April 1983.

18. Burlington City Directory, 1889-90.

19. Hopkins.

20. Burlington City Directory, 1889-90, 1890.

21. Hopkins.

22. Ibid.

23. Burlington City Directory, 1890.

24. Karen Czaikowski, Historic Sites and Structures Survey, 38 Lafayette Place, Burlington, Vermont. 17 June 1983.

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