16 S. Winooski Avenue

This two-and-one-half story, three-by-six bay, cross-gable house sits along the east side of South Winooski Avenue, near Pearl Street.  The house features two-over-two, double hung sash windows, brick veneer, stone foundation, imbricated slate roof with boxed eaves and cornice return, and a small central chimney.  The main entrance is accessible beneath a porch on the left side of the front facade.  One porch wraps the northwest corner of the building and two other porches extend along the southerly facade on either side of the side gable.  This Italianate structure boasts decorative door and window hoods, cornice brackets, turned posts, and verge boards.  The Italianate style was popular in the mid-to-late 1800s 

This building dates from 1871, when it was erected as the parsonage for the First Congregational Church, which had been situated on the lawn on the south side of the building.¹  This building replaced the old parsonage on Bank Street.  The original First Congregational Church, of 1812, known as the “White Street Church”, for its white frame, burned down in 1839.²  The house is used today as the Ronald McDonald House.

See house on 1877 Birds-Eye Map