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"Frog spit" in the Stone Bridge Brook. (Royce Nitrate V-53b)

"Frog spit" in the Stone Bridge Brook. (Royce Nitrate V-53a)

Two photographs of the center of Barre taken forty years apart in 1881 and 1921 from the same spot behind the Congregational Church, accompanied by a description of the buildings in the earlier photograph. Note that the steeple of the church was…

When National Life Insurance Company opened their seventh headquarters building on a hill overlooking Montpelier in 1960 it made a bold statement. They built a sleek, International style building with landscaped grounds, a sweeping driveway, and a…

The Washington County sheriff’s office at 10 Elm Street was ordered by mail from the Pauly Jail Company of St. Louis, Missouri, for $23,000 in 1900. A local crew constructed the building that featured a Queen Anne style home for the jailer in the…

When Montpelier’s Heaton Hospital was founded in 1896, it was only the third hospital in Vermont. The original quaint structure has been altered numerous times. The last large renovation was in 1952, when a large, blocky wing was added to the south…

For much of Montpelier’s history this home has had a commanding view of Montpelier from a ridge on “Seminary Hill” accessed by East State Street. Successful farmer and land owner Morton Marvin purchased it from carriage maker and horse breeder F. C.…

The hotel we know as the Capitol Plaza was built as the Montpelier Tavern in 1932, a three-story hotel replacing an 1826 wood-frame hotel on the same site. A fourth story was added above the cornice line in the 1940s as seen in the top photograph.…

The building at 107 State Street, formerly known as the Thrush Tavern and now housing Pho Capital, is the youngest of four Federal style residential buildings in a short section of the north side of State Street. Silas C. French, a boot and shoe…

The Central Vermont Railroad bypassed Montpelier, but for portions of the 19th and 20th centuries a busy spur line connected a
station across the street from the Statehouse to the economic lifeline
of its time. In 1880 the original 1850 station was…

In 1868 the Bethany Congregational Society built an impressive Gothic-revival church on the site of the first church building in the city. Designed by Boston architect Charles Edward Parker, the new edifice was unusually ornate for a New England…

The property at 12 Main Street has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past 90 years. A Texaco Station was built there in 1932. At first it was called Sequin’s Service Station; later and longer it was known as Nun’s Service Station. In the…