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94-106 Maple St (1885) - mansard slate roof detail
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94-106 Maple Street, Burlington, Vermont USA • SO much to like! ∞ French Second Empire; seven row houses each 2-1/2 stories, 3 bays with side hall entrances and entrance porches, double leaf doors with transom lights and covered by an elaborated patterned imbricated slate mansard roof which is not continued on the rear elevation. Each section has a central shed dormer and rear ell. Slate sidewalks are laid in front of the block, Number 94 Maple Street having a marble slab in front of the steps as well. The slate roof and sidewalks reflect the fact that the owner and builder of the block was Loomis P. Smith, son of Horace W. Smith builder and slater. Loomis was involved in the father's business as well as being Burlington's Constable in 1889, and a reputedly rich gambler. – From the Nomination Form for the NRHP, by Gina Campoli and Karen Czaikowski, December 1983.
☞ This building is one of 120 contributing structures (and one object) of the 350 acre Battery Street Historic District, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (#77000098), since November 2, 1977.
The total number of row houses in Burlington (not counting modern condos) can be reckoned on the fingers of one hand. This large building with its 16 apartments is one of the more interesting examples. Built in 1885 by Horace W. Smith & Son, the mansard slate roof is worthy of note, as Smith, a slater, used this roof as a permanent outdoor billboard to advertise the varied patterns, colors and designs available from his firm.
☞ For the paragraph above, I am indebted to the Chittenden County Historical Society, and their fine, three volume set: Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods: Vol. I, 1991; Vol. II, 1997;Vol. III, 2003. David J. Blow, author; Lillian Baker Carlisle, Editor; Sarah L. Dopp, photographs.
∞ Slate Survey.
☞ Ah, Burlington: one of the true outposts of optimism, on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain (the 6th Great Lake) … [sic].
• More Info: GeoHack: 44°28′29″N 73°13′05″W.
James Dolan House (1894) – porch stained glass
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96 South Union Street, Burlington, Vermont USA • Now operating as offices with a third-floor apartment, I'm told it was once a brothel.
This single-family Queen Anne style, eaves-front house, dominated by a large round tower filling the right half of the front facade, faces west on South Union Street. The 2 x 4 bay shingle and clapboard sided wood frame structure rises from the redstone foundation to the steeply pitched gable roof.
While the roof was originally all covered by slate, the main eaves-front gable has been covered by asphalt shingles. The area with slate remaining has gray slate laid with a band of clipped shingles. The large tower is covered with plain wood shingles except for the first course on on second floor, which has sawtooth shingles. The finial-capped tower has a hip roof dormer extending from the front (west) side of its conical roof. The window in this dorrner and in the dormer protruding west from the main gable (which has cheeks which round into half circles before ending at the recessed sash) have multi-light windows. Most of the building is 1/1 windows, some of the exceptions being two fixed-sash stained glass windows and a set of replacement windows toward the back of the budding. One stained glass, a small elaborate window located on the right (south) side year beyond the tower, is a more recent (1987) sash designed with mountains and a sunset. The right (south) gable has a slate hood and a projecting gable toward the rear of the main gable which, contains a bow window below it. The gable of this bow window has fishscale shingles in the lower corners and a 3/1 window in the rear. A bay window on the left (north) side gable wall rises two stories and ends in a hip roof.
The porch on the left front facade has a full-width pediment filled with floral carvings which is held up by steel cornerposts. The front door consists of a large rectangular pane above two vertical panels. The two round arch openings above the porch look as if they originally enclosed a small sunporch. Now these two openings are filled with large fixed panes of glass.
The double-flue chimney is made of brick and has a corbelled top. The back (east) side of the building retains in basic shape of a 2-1/2 story building but has been altered with skylights, additional construction and at least one window replacement. The lot is flat and sits a few feet above the sidewalk. This house was built for James Dolan, who had a grocery business at 203-205 College Street called Dolan Bros. – From the NRHP application.
☞ This building is one of 136 contributing structures of the 280 acre Buell Street - Bradley Street Historic District, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (#95001260), since November 13, 1995.
• More Info: GeoHack: 44°28′45″N 73°12′31″W.
94-106 Maple St (1885) - mansard slate roof detail
Image by origamidon
94-106 Maple Street, Burlington, Vermont USA • SO much to like! ∞ French Second Empire; seven row houses each 2-1/2 stories, 3 bays with side hall entrances and entrance porches, double leaf doors with transom lights and covered by an elaborated patterned imbricated slate mansard roof which is not continued on the rear elevation. Each section has a central shed dormer and rear ell. Slate sidewalks are laid in front of the block, Number 94 Maple Street having a marble slab in front of the steps as well. The slate roof and sidewalks reflect the fact that the owner and builder of the block was Loomis P. Smith, son of Horace W. Smith builder and slater. Loomis was involved in the father's business as well as being Burlington's Constable in 1889, and a reputedly rich gambler. – From the Nomination Form for the NRHP, by Gina Campoli and Karen Czaikowski, December 1983.
☞ This building is one of 120 contributing structures (and one object) of the 350 acre Battery Street Historic District, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (#77000098), since November 2, 1977.
The total number of row houses in Burlington (not counting modern condos) can be reckoned on the fingers of one hand. This large building with its 16 apartments is one of the more interesting examples. Built in 1885 by Horace W. Smith & Son, the mansard slate roof is worthy of note, as Smith, a slater, used this roof as a permanent outdoor billboard to advertise the varied patterns, colors and designs available from his firm.
☞ For the paragraph above, I am indebted to the Chittenden County Historical Society, and their fine, three volume set: Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods: Vol. I, 1991; Vol. II, 1997;Vol. III, 2003. David J. Blow, author; Lillian Baker Carlisle, Editor; Sarah L. Dopp, photographs.
∞ Slate Survey.
☞ Ah, Burlington: one of the true outposts of optimism, on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain (the 6th Great Lake) … [sic].
• More Info: GeoHack: 44°28′29″N 73°13′05″W.
