179 N. Winooski Avenue

This one-and-one-half story, gable front, ell plan house sits along the west side of North Winooski Avenue, near Crombie Street.  The house features one-over-one, double hung sash windows, vinyl siding, stone foundation, patterned slate roof with raking eaves, and small, central chimney.  An enclosed porch joins the two ells and houses the entrance at the southeast corner.  Two additions protrude from the rear.  The house is noted for its vernacular Italianate style, demonstrated in the paired brackets and arching lintels. 

The two additions are visible on the 1894 Sanborn map, as well as a porch along the southerly facade, behind the side ell.  The front porch was also still open on the 1894 map.  The 1900 Sanborn map reveals the enclosure of the back porch.  The front porch was enclosed after 1978.

The first occupant was most likely A.V. Spaulding, in 1877.¹  He was an attorney, in an office over the Merchant National Bank.²  A later Spaulding relative was a partner in the wholesale grocer, Spaulding and Kimball.³  The Spaulding family remained at this address until around 1913.⁴  During the late 1900s, the house was on the edge of a fashionable neighborhood.⁵

Show house on 1877 Birds-Eye Map