The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-01-06

We begin with the Northeast quarter,
that east of North and north of Main
streets. In this locality first Of all is the
Opera House and block, erected this year
by Henry w. Putnam at an estimated
cost of $4,000 The Opera House is 200
x64 feet, and is beyond question the fin
est in the State 1t has already been
fully described in our columns. Tht
block in front has frontage of 1877 feet
and varying depth, the longest distances
being so feet. 1t is three stories high
and the center is surmounted by a tower
on the top of which is delineator of the
points of the compass, and weather
vane crowns the whole. The first floor
is soon to be occupied-the west store by
Chas. G. Cole; the next east by e. Il.
Hudson. Two of the four other stores
are rented-to l.. s. Frost as meat mar
ket and to Miss Grace Eddy as book
store and news room. We are not in
formed as to the two remaining stores
of the block. The second (west half,
floor is occupied by the Improved Order
of Red Men. and other orders are nego-
tiating for the accommodations remain
ing on both the secOdd and third HOors.
The whole is heated by steam and lighted
by electricity. We hope this will prove
SO good an investment that Mr.. Putnam
another year will purchase the balance
of the square and build it up.
The dwellings erected for two years in
this section, counting in those by Messrs
Putnam and Hawks, would make quite
II respectable village themselves, but we
confine ourselves to 1892. The dwellings
are; The Nolan sisters, daughters of
| Chas. Nolan, Gage street; Martin Coyle,
Division; E. L. Norton and Jas, j. New
lis (twol Division; Jas s. Liudley,
| County; Gilbert Robinson IL. .parO Brad.
ford extension; William Perham, RrAd-
ford extension; Lawrence Riley, County;
Joseph Langdon, Grove; Chas. H. Davis,
Bradford extension; Miss Emma Austin,
Branch; Mrs w. A. Peart Branch; n:';. -.
Rockwood, repairs, Branch; Patrick Nc
Guire (house and barn), Division street;
John Hackott, Grove; NJ. Snow, Brad
ford extension; Adelbert Quackenbush
Il. part) Branch; Sidney Burt (near Tiff
fany's); F. G. Day double tenemsnt),
Adams Miss A. NJ. Newton (repairs and
rebuilding homestead), North; Mrs. EN-
ma Cone double tenemenD corner of
Pleasant and School streets; barn for
VIM. r. Morgan, Maple street. Thus it
will be seen that in this quarter of the
village there have been erected nineteen
dwellings, not including a number upon
which repairs have been made, with a
capacity for twenty-five families. The
expenditures on these dwellings vary
from 81, 900 to S3,000-the greater num-
ber of which cost from 81 800 to $1,000
each.
At the Soldiers Home the Chapel has
been bull and dedicated, the buildings re-
painted and new building erected 20x
36. The chapel, built by the Eagle
Square Manufacturing Company, w. O.
Bull, architect, has been so recently de-
scribed in our columns that we emit it
here. Did we go back into. 1891, we
should add the fine residence of Prof.
| Fred. n. Squire, erected on the site Of
the Squire's homestead and completed
during the wiRter of 1892 alse the
dwelling built by the daughters of Jas.
Burns, and possibly one or two more. A
barn has been built on the Town Farm.
The quarter situated south of Main
and east of South streets shows an
equally gratifying increase of property.
In this section three of the better class
of residences have gone up-cOsting
from 5000 to $4,000 each, besides re-
pairs to others already built and respe :
table list of dwellings. the cost of which
will average 81 500. We will give the
Pratt, South street, has remodelled the
homestead at an expense of several
thousand dollars. Early in the season
w. D. Newton made quite extensive re-
pairs on the Richie store, adding con-
siderably to its capacity. The Y. NJ. A.
have put in u new front to the east half
of Library building, added bow window
to the east side and have moved the
library down stairs. Col. Edward l..
Bates has improved his residence, the
DIR. Scranton place, building barn, etc.
Fred Winslow has raised up the back
part of his home dwelling on Union
street, making it two stories. S. H..
Rock wood, Union, has put up large ad-
dition to his residence, raised the whole
one-half story and built bow window
and tower on the front. He has also
moved one of the barns to the street and
finished it off for tenement house.
Nathan F. Smith, Union, has built quite
a good sized l. to the east side of his
dwelling. j. Oliver Burt, on the same
street. has built barn ON his premises,
formerly the Kennedy property. An
engine house and carriage barn has been
built by X. b. Godfrey for the box shop
of II. S. Bingham, Main street. Mr.. God
frey has also repaired the dwelling next
east and between that and the box shop
has bull large laundry building
for Remick Thompson. In all some
50, 900 has been the cost of Mr. Godfrey S
improvements. The laundry attached to
the home dwelling of John G. Harwood,
Beech street, having been burned, he has
moved the barn to the vacant lot north
and model laundry place will be fin
ished soon, the house meanwhile being
repaired. The Cooper mills extension is
already noted.
Should we include two years. resume of
the new dwellings in this south east part
of the village, like the preceding quarter
north, there would be about fifty in num-
ber in this quarter alone, the whole OF
Grand View street and tributaries of the
newer part having been built up in 1890
91-92, but we contine our remarks to last
year. NJ b. Houghton & Co., have built
livery barn at the foot of Union street.
A Buel Sibley, corner of Union and Sill
yer, has moved back the Gordon Squires
house, fronting on Silver and has trans
formed it into a nice dwelling. On the
corner site he has erected the fine resi-
dence we spoke of earlier in the season.
1t Is one of the three better class
of dwellings referred to above. That OF
Chas. N. Powers on Grand View street
and Il. A. Booths, on Upper Hillside
street, being the others. Mr.. Powers &
new residence occupies very command
ing site, and next year J. Ed. Walbridge
will erect two dwellings and barn just