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Gifford Woods State Park

Gifford Woods State Park is a state park located at the base of Pico Peak in Killington, Vermont. The wooded park provides camping, picnic, and fishing facilities, and has hiking trails, including a portion of the Appalachian Trail. It preserves an area of old-growth forest that has been designated a National Natural Landmark, and is accessible via an interpretive trail. The park was established in 1931. Part of it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, for facilities developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s. Setting Gifford Woods State Park is located on the east side of the Green Mountains, in the northern part of the town of Killington. It is bounded on the south by United States Route 4, and is bounded on the east by Vermont Route 100, except for a few acres between that road and Kent Pond to the east. The park consists of about 285 acres (115 ha) set on the northeastern slope of Pico Peak. Features Most of the park is wooded. An access road on the east side of VT 100 provides access to a boat launch and fishing area on Kent Pond, while the main access road is located on the west side, providing access to the park's other facilities. It leads to a contact station and ranger house, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s, with a parking area for day-use hikers. The road then leads past the contact station to the picnic area and campground, which offers 22 campsites, 21 leantos, and 4 rental cabins. Part of the campground loop, including one of the comfort stations, were built by the CCC in the 1930s. North of the contact station is an interpretive hiking trail, which passes through the park's old growth forest area. The Appalachian Trail, which branches from the Long Trail on the mountain ridge above the park, runs east–west through the campground and around Kent Pond. Park history The park was established in 1931 with the purchase by the state of 13 acres (5.3 ha) of land. In 1933 and 1934, a CCC crew built the main access road (including its stone gates), contact station, ranger house, picnic area, and the upper section of the campground loop. The park grew with additional land acquisitions over the years, reaching its present size of 285 acres in 2003. The campground was enlarged in 1959, after the acquisition of Kent Farm. Most of its leantos and picnic facilities date to the 1960s. A 40-acre (16 ha) area of the park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, for its association with the CCC, and 13 acres (5.3 ha) of old-growth forest were designated a National Natural Landmark in 1980 by the United States Department of the Interior. The Gifford Woods Natural Area (7 acres) is designated as a State Natural Area. See also List of Vermont state parks National Register of Historic Places listings in Rutland County, Vermont List of National Natural Landmarks in Vermont References External links Gifford Woods State Park web site
Aiken Stand Complex

The Aiken Stand Complex is a historic pair of buildings at the junction of Royalton Turnpike and Sayer Road in rural Barnard, Vermont. Built c. 1805 and 1835, they were the centerpiece of a small village that flourished in the first half of the 19th century, when the Turnpike was the principal north–south route through the region. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Description and history The Aiken Stand Complex stands in what is now a comparatively remote and rural area of eastern Barnard. At the southeast corner of Royalton Turnpike and Sayer Road stands the main building, a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a side gable roof, large central chimney, clapboarded exterior, five-bay front facade, and rubblestone foundation. Its interior and exterior are predominantly Federal in their style. Across the turnpike to the west stands a 1+1⁄2-story Cape style structure, with a similar exterior, but with Greek Revival features, including sidelight windows flanking the entrance. The location was the site of a tavern from at least 1781, when Solomon Aiken was documented to be operating one. His business benefited from the establishment of the Woodstock and Royalton Turnpike, a toll road, in 1800, and he built the main tavern building about 1805 to handle increased business. The Cape was added in 1835 to handle overflow traffic and provide more space for the Aiken family. Notable visitors to the tavern included President James Madison in 1817, and the Marquis de Lafayette in 1824. At its height, the tavern was the center of a small village, with a blacksmith's shop and school. The turnpike declined in importance after the construction of railroads in the state, and the tavern ended as a business in the 1870s. The buildings were used as private residences until the mid-20th century, and were then abandoned. They underwent restoration in the early 1980s. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor County, Vermont References External links Media related to Aiken Stand Complex at Wikimedia Commons
Gov. Jonas Galusha Homestead

The Governor Jonas Galusha Homestead is a historic homestead at 3871 Vermont Route 7A in Shaftsbury Center, Vermont. Built in 1783 and enlarged in 1805, it is a well-preserved example of Federal period architecture. It was built by Jonas Galusha, Vermont's fifth governor and a leading politician and military figure of southern Vermont for many years. It is now home to the Shaftsbury Historical Society, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Description and history The Governor Joseph Galusha Homestead is located near the northern end of the dispersed rural village of Shaftsbury Center, which is strung along Vermont Route 7A, the former alignment of United States Route 7 and historically the major north–south route through the area. The homestead includes 174 acres (70 ha), much of which is either in agricultural use or wooded. Its building complex is located near the property's southeastern corner, on the west side of the road, at one of its highest points. The main house is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame I-house, with a side-gable roof, end chimneys, clapboard siding, and a marble block foundation. Extending to its rear are a 1+1⁄2-story ell. The main facade is five bays wide, with a central entry with marble floor sheltered by a gabled porch, and a Palladian window above. The interior retains original features from the early 19th century, including hand-forged hinges and latches made by the building's most prominent resident, Jonas Galusha. The oldest portion of the house is the small rear ell, which was built by Galusha in 1783. The front part of the house was built in 1805, supposedly to a design suggested by local master builder Lavius Fillmore. The house was home to Galusha until his death in 1834. He was a major force in the politics and military of southwestern Vermont for many years, serving in American Revolutionary War at the Battle of Hubbardton and the Battle of Bennington. He was sheriff of Bennington County in the 1780s, and the fifth Governor of Vermont. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Bennington County, Vermont References External links Media related to Gov. Jonas Galusha Homestead at Wikimedia Commons Shaftsbury Historical Society web site
Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, also known as the Sheldon Museum, is a history museum in Middlebury, Vermont created by Henry Sheldon in 1882 focusing on his private collections and the history of the state of Vermont, United States. It is located in the 1829 Judd-Harris House, a three-story brick Federal house, which showcases much of the museum's collections, including furniture, art, and artifacts. The museum's Stewart-Swift Research Center houses and provides access to over two centuries of primary source materials documenting the history of Addison County, Vermont and other Vermont places. References
Wells Village School

The Wells Village School is a public school serving grades K through 6 in Wells, Vermont. Built about 1899, it is a fine and imposing local example of Colonial Revival architecture, designed to meet the latest school standards of the time. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. Description and history The Wells Village School is located on the west side of the main village of Wells, on the north side of Main Street (Vermont Route 30). It is a long rectangular two-story wood frame building, with hip-roofed end sections at either end of a central gabled section. The front-facing hipped section is fronted by a two-story gabled vestibule, with the main entrance set in a round-arch opening at its base. The front hip section is topped by a square turret with a pyramidal roof and an open belfry. The school was built by the town in about 1899, in order to improve the town's school facilities and merge two district schools. It originally had two classrooms on the ground floor, and an open meeting space with stage on the upper floor, which could be used for town meetings. The building has undergone several alterations over the years, due to changing state requirements for schools. Additional windows and fire exits were added in the early decades of the 20th century. In 1987 the rear addition was added to the building, and the upstairs space was converted into two classrooms. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Rutland County, Vermont References External links Wells Village School town web page
Escuela Wells Village

La Escuela Wells Village es una escuela pública que enseña desde el grado K hasta el 6 en Wells, Vermont. Construido alrededor de 1899, es un bello e imponente ejemplo local de arquitectura colonial, diseñado para cumplir con los últimos estándares escolares de la época. Fue incluido en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos en 1993. Descripción e historia La Escuela Wells Village está ubicada en el lado oeste de la villa principal de Wells, en el lado norte de la Calle Principal (Vermont Route 30). Es un edificio de madera de dos pisos, largo y rectangular, con secciones extremas con techo de cadera en cada extremo de una sección central con hastiales. La sección de cadera frontal está frente a un vestíbulo de dos pisos a dos aguas, con la entrada principal en una abertura de arco redondo en su base. La parte frontal de la cadera está coronada por una torreta cuadrada con techo piramidal y una espadaña abierta..​ La escuela fue construida por la ciudad alrededor de 1899, con el fin de mejorar las instalaciones escolares de la ciudad y fusionar dos escuelas del distrito. Originalmente tenía dos aulas en la planta baja y un espacio abierto para reuniones con un escenario en la planta superior, que podría usarse para reuniones municipales. El edificio ha sufrido varias modificaciones a lo largo de los años, debido a los requisitos estatales cambiantes para las escuelas. Se agregaron ventanas adicionales y salidas de incendios en las primeras décadas del siglo XX. En 1987, se añadió la parte trasera al edificio y el espacio del piso de arriba se convirtió en dos aulas. Referencias Enlaces externos Página Web de la Escuela Wells Village.
Beaver Meadow School

The Beaver Meadow School is a historic school building at 246 Chapel Hill Road in Norwich, Vermont. Built in 1922, it is a rare late example of a one-room schoolhouse, made further distinctive by the survival of its original schoolroom interior. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. Description and history The Beaver Meadow School stands in the rural crossroads village of West Norwich, on the east side of Chapel Hill Road, a short way north of its junction with Beaver Meadow Road. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and a foundation of stone and concrete. Shed-roof additions extend across the full length of the western side, and part of the northern side. The building faces south, facing a gravel parking lot near the road. The facade has sash windows on either side of its entrance, which is handsomely decorated with flanking engaged Tuscan columns rising to an entablature and gabled pediment. A semicircular window is set in the gable end above. The roof is topped by a square, square open belfry. The interior has a narrow vestibule, which opens into the main chamber. It has a stage at one end, and retains original wood flooring, wainscoting, and a woodstove with an unusual safety enclosure. The school was built in 1922, a fairly late period for the construction of these types of district school buildings. It was used until 1946 for educational purposes, and has been used since then as a community clubhouse. It is unusual among one-room schoolhouses for retaining most of its original interior, which is often lost when such buildings are converted to other uses. This school, along with the Root School, was among the last of the town's district schools to close. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor County, Vermont References
Augustus and Laura Blaisdell House

The Augustus and Laura Blaisdell House is a historic house at 517 Depot Street in Chester, Vermont. Built in 1868 for a local businessman, it is a fine local example of transitional Greek Revival-Italianate architecture. It has historically served both commercial and residential functions, and now contains apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. Description and history The Blaisdell House stands in the village of Chester Depot, at the southwest corner of Depot Street and Railroad Avenue. It is prominently sited on a rise overlooking the village. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a foundation of stone and concrete blocks. The main facade faces east, and is five bays wide, with three bays in the attic level. A single-story porch extends across the front, its posts set on pedestals and joined at the top by a valence. Windows on the front and sides are sash, topped by distinctive low gabled caps. Near the peak of the gable is a round-arch opening that has been enclosed. A two-story ell extends to the rear of the main block. The interior of the building, now divided into multiple residential units, still retains a significant amount of period styling. The house was built in 1868 for Augustus and Laura Blaisdell, natives of New Hampshire who moved here in 1860. The Blaisdells operated a company that manufactured fireproof roofing and paint at their home base in New Hampshire, and built this building on a prominent site in the village to promote sales, which were conducted from a storefront on its ground floor. The land and building were both owned by Laura Blaisdell, and were willed to Augustus upon her death in 1888. He closed the company store and sold the property in 1891. The building saw a variety of uses, at times exclusively residential, but often with a business component, for most of the 20th century. The house is architecturally distinctive in the village for its unique combination of Italianate and Greek Revival features. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Windsor County, Vermont References
Rutland Jewish Center

The Rutland Jewish Center is a non-denominational Jewish synagogue and religious community center located at 96 Grove Street in Rutland, Vermont, in the United States. The synagogue, owned by the Congregation Adath Israel, is located in the former H. H. Baxter Memorial Library building, a Richardsonian Romanesque structure that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Programs and services The Rutland Jewish Center (RJC) provides a variety of cultural and educational services to the Jewish community of the Rutland area. It offers both adult and children's classes, the latter including Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah training. Architecture and building history The RJC building is a cruciform structure, built out of grey marble quarried in West Rutland and laid in irregular courses. Prominent features include the arched entrance portico at the corner of Grove and Library Streets, and the multi-stage square tower that has an open top stage, each side featuring a pair of round-arched openings separated by a round column. The building was constructed as a library in 1889 by Mary E. Roberts Baxter in honor of her husband, Horace Henry Baxter, a New York City financier and part-owner of the Rutland Marble Company. The building was designed by Brunner & Tryon, and was opened to the public in 1895. In 1927, the building was purchased by Congregation Adath Israel, which had been formed in Rutland in 1911. The domed section of the library was repurposed for use as the main synagogue. The building has since been sympathetically enlarged. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Rutland County, Vermont References External links Official website
Boardman Hill Solar Farm

The Boardman Hill Solar Farm (BHSF) is a 150 kW AC community solar farm project. The Farm is the first community solar array in Vermont that fulfills the “Vermont Grown, Vermont Green” Archived 2019-01-24 at the Wayback Machine mission: complete member-ownership, democratic management of ongoing operations, and retirement of the RECs generated by the solar farm. It is located on the Boardman Hill Farm in West Rutland, Vermont. In 2015 BHSF was awarded the Vermont Energy and Climate Action Network Best Project of 2015 Archived 2018-01-27 at the Wayback Machine It received the Vermont Governor's Environmental Excellence Award in 2016. See also Solar power in Vermont References External links Boardman Farm Solar Farm Case Study Vermont Group Net Metering: Information & Guidelines for 150 kW (AC) Community Solar Projects
Bennington station

Bennington station is a historic former railroad depot at 150 Depot Street in downtown Bennington, Vermont. Built in 1897-98 by the Bennington and Rutland Railroad, it is the only Richardsonian Romanesque railroad station in the state of Vermont. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as Bennington Railroad Station, and since then housed a restaurant, which closed in 2018. It now is an office space for MSK Engineering and Design and Goldstone Architecture. Description and history The former station stands just northwest of Bennington's downtown, at the southwest corner of Depot and River Streets. The building is oriented at an angle to the intersection, paralleling the former route of the tracks, which formed a triangle with the two roads. It is a rectangular single-story stone structure, with an apse at its southern end, and a projecting rectangular entry section (formerly a porte-cochere) on the longer easterly facade. Unused railroad tracks lie just to the west, and a modern addition extends to the south, providing additional restaurant seating capacity. The former agent's office projects on the track side of the building. Bennington's early railroad service was limited to the village of North Bennington, about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the downtown. In 1854 a branch line was run from North Bennington to serve the town center, and a wood frame depot was erected by the Bennington and Rutland. In 1897, its depot in decline, the railroad commissioned local architect William C. Bull to design a replacement. The present building was completed the following year. Its design bears significant resemblance to the station designed by H.H. Richardson for Wellesley, Massachusetts (now demolished), and is the state's only instance of a Richardsonian railroad station. Passenger service to downtown Bennington was discontinued in the early 1930s, and it is not known how long freight service continued. The station building was sold into private hands in 1966, and it was converted into a restaurant in 1970. The modern extensions to the south were made in 1986. The restaurant closed in 2018. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Bennington County, Vermont References External links Bennington Station restaurant web site
North Bennington station

North Bennington station is a historic railroad station at Depot Street and Buckley Road in North Bennington, Vermont. Built in 1880 as a passenger station, this Second Empire brick building is a surviving reminder of North Bennington's former importance as a major railroad hub in southwestern Vermont. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 as North Bennington Depot. History The Bennington and Rutland Railroad opened between its namesake cities in 1853. A branch from North Bennington to White Creek on the New York border opened at the same time. It connected to the Troy and Boston Railroad at White Creek, connecting the railroad to New York. The short branch was operated by the Troy and Boston and its descendants, the Fitchburg Railroad and later the Boston and Maine Railroad, with interchange made at North Bennington. The Bennington and Rutland was merged into the Rutland Railroad in 1867. The Lebanon Springs Railroad was built in 1869 south from Bennington to Chatham, New York, where it connected with the Boston and Albany Railroad and the New York and Harlem Railroad. This put North Bennington at the junction of two through routes. The line was acquired by the Rutland in 1899. A new station building was constructed in 1880. The depot is a two-story brick structure, with a mansard roof and a foundation of cut marble. The roof has a cornice studded with brackets, and is composed of multicolored slate. Its mansard section is lined with gabled dormers housing round-arch windows, and there is a mansarded tower rising near the center of the street-facing facade. The ground floor exterior of the building is sheltered by flared canopies supported by large carved knee brackets. The interior is functionally divided into two waiting areas, with an octagonal ticket office between them on the track side. A small single-storage luggage area extends from one end of the building. Passenger service between North Bennington and Bennington ended in the early 1930s, with buses operating over that segment; passenger service south of Bennington ended not long after. The line was abandoned south of Bennington in 1953. Passenger service to North Bennington by the Green Mountain Flyer and Mount Royal lasted until 1953. The railroad attempted to abandon its entire system in 1961; most lines, including the mainline through North Bennington and the short branch to Bennington, resumed freight service in 1964 under the Vermont Railway. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Bennington County, Vermont References