The Vermont Mattress Company, although no longer operational, was a large business at the intersection between North Winooski and Riverside Avenues for most of the 20th century. Originally located in a building just past the right edge of the photograph on the south side of the intersection, in 1954, Vermont Mattress tore down the building at 617 Riverside Avenue formerly housing the Riverside Avenue Garage, and constructed a large mattress factory.[1] There they remained until the early 1990s, when a local developer, Scott Mansfield, purchased the building and completely refurbished it for commercial and office space.[2] The current tenants, Burlington community health center, originally leased the second floor, while Jasper’s supermarket occupied the first floor[3], but after several years the health center expanded its operations into the entire building.

Number 603 remains much the same from when McAllister set his lens upon it in 1932. The building has stayed a residential home while undergoing some physical alterations, such as the expansion and enclosure of the front porch, the removal of the brick chimney, and the slight movement of the second-floor gable window to the front of the house.