Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-08
RECORD OF ONE YEAR.
EW BUILDINGS ERECTED IN BUR
LlNGrON IN 1885.
lver "a Quarter of IL Million Dollars Eek
pended-How Homes are Made IN
the Queen City-A Credit
able Record.


|aratively small amount of building in
his city during the past year, and the
eason for this is obvious. With few
RECEPTIONS there have been no new build
ngs erected in the busy part of the city
Ind no towering public building that
would catch the eye has been begun or
completed except the Billings library,
II spite of the fact, however, that no
large sum has been expended in any one
place the city has made satisfactory pro
sress during the past year and its growth
turing that period will without doubt be
ound to compare tavOrably with the av-
rage of former years, especially rs re
cards business blocks of which several
ne specimens have been erected. 1t
will undoubtedly surprise most OF our
|esidents to learn that about one hundred
Ind twenty new buildings have been
|rected or practically completed in Bur
ington during the past year, but investi-
cation shows that such is the fact 1t is
Encouraging to note also that rs II rule
building operations have been generally
konfined to residences so that the real
krowth of the city is larger than
II some years when there was APP
he business portion The pride of il city
in the number and beauty OF its homes
Is well Us IN its fine buildings and it is an
additional matter for graduation as
3Well as IL favorable augur for the future
growth and permanent prosperity of Bur
that the majority OF new homes
Lmade during the past year are those of
| the laboring class.
During the year 1854 there were I'M
doubleday more fine structures begun
than in any single year previous i'll our
history, but the past year has I'M
doubtedly witnessed the completion of
more handsome buildings than did last
year. \ glance at the list Of those the
erection of which spans the two years,
and IN several instances three years Will
be of interest First and above all OF
course is the magnificent Billings library
which was completed early III the sum
mer at Il total cost of SllU,OOO, over SIS,
600 having been expended On it since the
first of January last. Next in import
ance is the new st. Joseph's church which
is nowhere near completion, but upon
which nearly $4,000 has been expended
during 1850. Tnen follow the completion
of the handsome residences of HOratlO
Loomis ON Williams street, costing So, 900,
that of +. G. Kennedy, corner of sum
nit and Maple streets, which cost SID,
600, Ri. Rev. Bishop DrGoesbrland' 5 resi-
dence on Cherry street, representing an
not entirely completed, the new resi-
dences of A. b. Fisher and W. > Vincent
on Main street, costing respectively $500
and 5000 the residences of Messrs. Dun
hams corner of Willard and Maple streets,
costing $4,000, and the new St Paul's
rectory corner of Bank and Pine streets
which cost $1,000 and which was the last
monument erected III this city to the gen
erOuS spirit OF the late John r. Howard
There are others which might be named
but the list given above is sufficient to
show that 1850 Is not without its laurelS III
the erection OF handsome structures iii
Burlington.
Other new buildings were erected
as follows: w. w Wood, store on Church
street. 5000 Bereau Baptist chapel,
$1,000 :; w. II. Livingston, house on wi
nooski avenue $500 Dr. q. c. Briggs,
Winooski avenue, $1,000 +. Il. Fletcher,
Winooskl avenue, $1,000 Obadiah Walls
ton, three houses III process of erection on
Crombie street a. &. Hail house on Elm
street, $1,000 DO ID. Hatch, house on Elm
street, $500 Franklin White, house on
St Paul street, $1,000 f.. b. Johnson, tea
ement block ON Peru street, $1,000 {. d..
HaineS, store ON WinOOskl avenue, $1,000 ;
j. II. McCuen, house on South Union
street, $500 John Ready, double house
on St Paul street, $500 f.. b aud A. &.
Whiting addition 10 brush factory on
Battery street, 5000; &. f. Macombel
house on Maple street, 5000 John Cook,
house on North Battery, $1,000 Michael
Kelly house on Battery street, $1,000
Frederick Bernard, house on North Cham
plain, $500: Leon Beaupre, house on
corner North Champlan and Poplar
streets, $1,000 NJ. Paxton, house on Lex
fountain street, 500 II. A. Jones, houst
on IafOuntaln street, 5000 john Nc
Keough, block on corner Cedar and Rost
streets, $1,000 j. b. Michaud, house o.
Elmwood avenue. $1,000 Commons Hall Oh
Colchester avenue, SGOUU {. H. COty nous,
on Decatur street, $1,000; Patrick -Four
nier, house on north W nOoski avenue, $500
Geolge Rogers, two houses on WinOosk
avenue, $1,000 each w. q ID. G.. Crane, wv,
hou, es ON Bank street $1,000 each Candi
de Leclair, house on Hyde street, $500
Napoleon Wilma, house Hyde street, 500
F. l.. Washburn, house on North Willard
street, 5000 +. +. Gill, house on Willard
street. 5000: James +. Morgan, house cor
ner Willard and Pomeroy streets, 800
Paul Bonnette, house on North Willard
street $500; Wylie b. Jones, tenemen
house ON Adams, $1,000; &. f. McCueu
house corner Union and Howard streets
$1,000; Patrick Foley, house on Colcheste
avenue, $3.50; Vital AsSilin, house ON In
tenement on South Union street, 5000
A. b. Fisher q Co., shop Winoosi
avenue, 5000; ). Beach, new front an,
repairs on block on College street, $500
Alex Barrett, house ON Interval avenue
800: d. w Robinson, Queen Anne resi-
dence on Main street, $4,000; Mary \
Collision, two houses on George and Mum
roe streets, $500: Jas. BUl-er, tenemen
house on MunruC street, $1,000: j. W
Kelley, house on Peru street, $1,000; Geo
b. Rand, block corner Peru ard Champ
lain streets, 5000; Moses Duruut, hOus
on Convent square S4OO; 10 Gokey, hons
on North avenue in process of cOnstruc
tion Venetian Blind company, factory OF