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Dewey Garage
The Dewey Garage is located behind Dewey Hall adjacent to
the Quonset hut. The garage first appears as a brick veneered building on the
1906 Sanborn Insurance map as belonging to 34 North Prospect Street.
[1]
In 1926, the garage appears for the first time as a private garage.
[2]
It is marked in 1942 as a five-car garage now belonging to 32 North Prospect.
[3]
On the 1960 and 1978 Sanborn Insurance maps the garage is marked as storage.
[4]
Currently, the garage appears to be used as storage by the Outing Club.
Image and text by Robyn Sedgwick
[1] Sanborn Insurance Map, 1906 [2] Sanborn Insurance Map, 1926 [3] Sanborn Insurance Map, 1942 [4] Sanborn Insurance Map, 1960 Insurance Maps of Burlington Vermont, Chittenden County, (New York, Sanborn Map Company, 1978) |