This is the best survivor from this section of Burlington for the structures built during the period of 1869 to 1877.  This building faces east and stands on the corner of North Champlain Street and Manhattan Drive.  The structure appears to be very similar to other buildings built during the same period in the neighborhood.

            The property lot appears empty on the 1869 Beers Atlas Map with no listed property owner.  The first owner known for the structure was David Dufresne, an employee of Taft & Morgan Company.  He had previously lived on Chase Street [1] in 1877-1879, on Archibald Street [2] between Bright and Interval Avenue in 1879-1881, and at 189 North Street before moving to this house along with Arthur Dufresne, who also worked at Taft & Morgan, in 1884-85 [3] .

            Despite not knowing who lived in this structure before 1884, the building appears on the 1877 Birds Eye View Map of Burlington and, as suggested by the footprint, is clearly the same structure that appears on subsequent maps of the area dating from 1884 to 1978 Sandborn Insurance Maps.  The current structure is a two-story, gable front house, with a shed roof addition on the rear that replaced a one-story wing [4] that appeared to be offset the main block on the south facing facade.

            On the 1890 Hopkins Map lists the owner as Miss J. Stacy, but there was no information in the city directories of anyone by that name.  The next known owner was Alexander Hall, an employee of the Champlain Shops, in 1902 [5] .  The subsequent years the tenants of the house changed often, but usually housed laborers like much of the houses in this area.