North Union Street
North Union Street was originally named Maiden Lane until 1876 when it was switched over to North Union Street. North Union starts at Pearl Street and runs north to Winooski Ave.
43 North Union Street is a two-story Italianate style house with a stone foundation was built ca. 1870. The original owner is unknown. Dr. G.C. Briggs, who practiced medicine and lived here until his death in 1898, acquired the house in 1877.[1] His widow, son and daughter-in-law successively inherited it and kept the family home until it was converted into apartments in the 1950's.[2]
[1] Burlington City Directory and Business
Advertiser. (Burlington VT: Free Press Association, 1877), 15
[2] C. Richard Morsbach,Vermont Division for Historic Preservation.
Historic Sites and Structures Survey, Chittenden County, Burlington
VT, June 1977. CD-ROM Reference HP-002, Disk 8, created 7/22/02.
118-120 North Union Street is a two-and-a-half story Italianate
style house with a stone foundation was built ca. 1870. J. Roby
was the builder/contractor of this house. The original use of
this building was residence and is now used as apartments.[1]
The house was either a Late Greek Revival House or perhaps an
earlier house that was moved here in the 1870's. It's first known
use was as the office for the Roby Bros. Construction Company,
most of whose partners lived nearby.[2] The original door and
trim still remain.
No record of later residents exist until 1903, when John Pratt,
a marble cutter lived here.[3] An unusually high turnover of occupants
in subsequent years suggests that the house was a rental property.[4]
[1] C. Richard Morsbach,Vermont Division for
Historic Preservation. Historic Sites and Structures Survey, Chittenden
County, Burlington VT, June 1977.
[2] Map of the City of Burlington Vermont. C.M. Hopkins, CE, Philadelphia,
1890.
[3] Burlington City and Winooski Directory from 1903. (Burlington
VT: Free Press Association), 205.
[4] C. Richard Morsbach,Vermont Division for Historic Preservation.
Historic Sites and Structures Survey, Chittenden County, Burlington
VT, June 1977.
121 North Union Street is a one and a half story Italianate
Style house with a brick foundation. Little can be determined
of the early history of the structure. It was probably built in
the late 1870's. The original use of this building was residence,
and is now used as apartments.[1] No known date to when this house
was built, but is found on the 1877 Birds Eye View map of Burlington.
The first known resident was W.S. Badger, who operated a domestic
bakery in his home here in 1898 until his death in 1902.[2] The
house was converted to apartments ca. 1945.[3]
[1] C. Richard Morsbach,Vermont Division for Historic
Preservation. Historic Sites and Structures Survey, Chittenden
County, Burlington VT, June 1977.
[2] Burlington City and Winooski Directory for 1903. (Burlington
VT, Free Press Association), 60.
[3] C. Richard Morsbach,Vermont Division for Historic Preservation.
Historic Sites and Structures Survey, Chittenden County, Burlington
VT, June 1977.