United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
Continuation Sheet
Section number 7
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Englesby House, 112 South Williams St., 1914.
The main block is flanked by attached, symmetrical, trellised, flat-roofed porches with the one on the south end enclosed primarily with glass and the north end fenced with wrought iron. Each porch features eight wooden Corinthian columns and cornices similar to those below the eaves. The entry of the rear of the ell consists of a half glass raised panel wood door with aluminum storm door. A third porch shelters this area and has four Doric columns and two pilasters with balustrades and a north facing trellis. A fifth chimney is situated in the southwest corner of the ell. An arch-topped dormer is located on each side of the ell at the west end. There are string courses between the first and second story and broken corbelled brick belt courses on each gabled end directly above the bays on the second story.
The two-car, flat roofed, detached garage is perpendicular to the rear entrance and faces north. It has matching brick construction and a raised panel, single, wooden overhead door. On each side, the garage has two bays with an entry door toward the rear on the east side. The cornice over the front matches that of the house.
Surrounded by cedar hedges and lattice screens, the formal garden on the south portion of the lot is one of the few such remaining in Burlington and dates from the construction of the house.
Designed in 1914 by Wilder and White, Architects, of New York City, the original owner was Dr. William Englesby. The Englesby's were an old Burlington family. William practiced medicine in Burlington from 1899 until his death in 1933. When his widow died in 1956, the house was willed to UVM. For the next two years it served as a dormitory for twenty-seven women students. When the new president of UVM, John Fey, arrived in 1958, the university remodeled the house and it has since been occupied by succeeding UVM presidents.