North Union Street

Researched By Todd Goff

43 North Union Street

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43 North Union Street looking southwest in 2004


Site of schoolhouse#4 until it was discontinued in the 1870s,  The Free Press 17 July 1874 announced the near completion of a house by Messrs. Allen & Greene on this site.  In 1877 Dr. George Briggs bought the house and his name is annotated on the Hopkins Map. He practiced medicine there until his death in 1898.1  A structure behind the house on this lot and shown on the 1890 Hopkins Map was converted into a house at the head of what is now Lafayette Place. [2]

 

51 North Union Street

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51 North Union Street looking west in 2004

The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies P.W. Barney with this building. [3]   The 1890 Burlington City Directory indicates P.W. Barney was a General Superintendent of the Champlain Transportation Co. (CTC) and lived at this address.4 An historic site survey states, “F.W. Barney built this Italianate house with Eastlake details in 1885,” and that Drs. Frank C. Lewis and Edwin Lewis resided here from 1899-1913, publishing the Vermont Medical Monthly while there. 5 David Blow stated, “Barney died at the age of 45 in a tragic accident on Lake George on July 12, 1899.”  He indicated Barney started as a clerk on the Oak Ames steamboat with the Rutland Railroad Co. before it was purchased by the CTC, where he was then hired and worked his way to General Superintendent.6  

77 North Union Street

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77 North Union Street looking northwest in 2004

The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies Mrs. W. F. Ferguson with this building. [7] An historic street survey dates the building at 1880. It also adds that Willard F. Ferguson purchased it in 1886 and the Queen Anne Style changes to an Italianate house were made in the 1890s.8 The 1888-89 Burlington City Directory shows Ferguson residing at 11 Loomis Street and shows bank clerks Walter C. and E.S. Isham boarding at 77 North Union Street. 1889-90 shows the same data. 9

 

 

83 North Union Street


83 North Union Street looking west in 2004

The 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies C.C. Post with this building. [10] Charles Post, inventor of the “Eureka” spout for maple sugaring, produced over 15 million spouts by 1890.  Born in Hinnesburg, VT in 1832, he was a member of First Baptist Church of Burlington and donated stained glass windows to them.  He purchased the lot in 1871 and built the house in 1877.11  A historic site survey says C. C. Post lived there until his death in 1899.12

145-151 North Union Street

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145 North Union Street looking southwest in 2004


Situated on the corner of North Union and North Streets, the 1890 Hopkins Map indentifies O.C. Stacy with this building and two others adjacent to it on North Street. [13]   The 1888-89 Burlington City Directory lists Horace Lane, an employee of Wells & Richardson, as living at 145 North Union Street.14  Currently it is used for rental property.

 

NOTES:

1 David J. Blow. Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods v.3 (Burlington: Chittenden County Historical Society, 2003),48-49.

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

3. Ibid.

4 Burlington City Directory, 1888-89, 1890.

5 C. Richard Morsbach,  Historic Sites and Structures Survey,  51 North Union Street, Burlington, Vermont. June 07,  1977.

6 David J. Blow. Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods v.3 (Burlington: Chittenden County Historical Society, 2003), 49.

7. Hopkins.

8 C. Richard Morsbach, Historic Sites and Structures Survey, 77 North Union Street, Burlington, Vermont. June 12, 1978.

9 Burlington City Directory, 1888-89, 1889-1890.

10. Hopkins.

11 David J. Blow. Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods v.3 (Burlington: Chittenden County Historical Society, 2003), 53.

12 C. Richard Morsbach,  Historic Sites and Structures Survey,  83 North Union Street, Burlington, Vermont. June 07,  19778.

13. Hopkins.

14 Burlington City Directory, 1888-89.

 

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