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Thursday, December 8, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Emma Willard House, 
Middleburg

Home of Emma Willard (1787-1870), a pioneer in the development of women's education in the United States.


Friday, December 2, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Vermont State House, Montpelier


The Vermont State House is the state capitol of Vermont. The current Greek Revival structure, which was first occupied in 1859, is the third building on the same site to be used as the State House.


Tuesday, November 29, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Ticonderoga (steamboat), Shelburne

Built in 1906 in Shelburne, the Ticonderoga is one of two remaining side-paddle-wheel passenger steamers with a vertical beam engine of the type that provided freight and passenger service on bays, lakes and rivers from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. 


Saturday, November 26, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Stellafane Observatory, North Springfield

The observatory includes the original clubhouse of the Springfield Telescope Makers, Inc., an amateur society, and the first large optical telescope (1930) built and owned by such a society.


Sunday, November 20, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Socialist Labor Party Hall, Barre


The Socialist Labor Party Hall was constructed in 1900. It was Barre's leading place for debates among anarchists, socialists and union leaders over the future direction of the labor movement in the early 20th century.


Monday, November 14, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, St. Johnsbury

The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum is significant because of its landscape paintings and books from its original role as a public library and free art gallery. The building retains a strong Victorian flavor of the 19th century.


Tuesday, November 8, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Shelburne Farms, Shelburne


Shelburne Farms is a nonprofit education center for sustainability and a 1,400-acre working farm. The property is nationally significant as a well-preserved example of a Gilded Age "ornamental farm."


Wednesday, November 2, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Round Church, Richmond

The Round Church, built in 1812-13, is a rare example of a sixteen-sided meetinghouse.


Thursday, October 27, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Rokeby, Ferrisburgh

This property has been designated a National Historic Landmark for its association with Rowland T. Robinson (1796-1879), a Quaker and ardent abolitionist who openly sheltered escaped slaves here as part of the Underground Railroad.


Friday, October 21, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Rockingham Meeting House, Rockingham

The Rockingham Meeting House was built between 1787 and 1801 and was originally used for both Congregational church meetings and governmental meetings. Church services ceased in 1839 but town meetings continued to be held there until 1869.


Saturday, October 15, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Robbins and Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop, Windsor

This building is said to be the first U.S. factory at which precision interchangeable parts were made, giving birth to the precision machine tool industry.


Sunday, October 9, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Naulakha (Rudyard Kipling House), Dummerston

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) had this Shingle Style house built in 1893 and made it his home until 1896. It is in this house that Kipling wrote Captains Courageous, The Jungle Book and other works.


Monday, October 3, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Mount Independence, Orwell


Site of Fort Independence, a Revolutionary War fortification built opposite Fort Ticonderoga.



Tuesday, September 27, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Justin S. Morrill Homestead, Strafford

The Justin Smith Morrill Homestead is the historic Carpenter Gothic home of U.S. Sen. Justin Smith Morrill (1810–98).


Wednesday, September 21, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
George Perkins Marsh Boyhood Home, Woodstock

This Queen Anne house, built in 1805 and enlarged several times, is significant as the boyhood home of conservationist George Perkins Marsh (1801–82), and as the home later in the 19th century of Frederick H. Billings (1823–90), a businessman and philanthropist.


Thursday, September 15, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Robert Frost Farm, Ripton


The Robert Frost Farm is a 150-acre property where poet Robert Frost (1874-1963) lived and wrote in the summer and fall months from 1939 until his death in 1963.


Friday, September 9, 2022

New England's National Historic Landmarks: Vermont


The National Register of Historic Places contains more than 85,000 sites, but only some 2,500 of them have been listed as National Historic Landmarks. New England is home to hundreds of these particularly significant structures, objects and places.

Above:
The Great Seal of the State of Vermont

VERMONT
Calvin Coolidge Homestead District, Plymouth Notch

The Calvin Coolidge Homestead District includes a childhood home of the thirtieth president of the United States, where Coolidge later took the presidential oath of office. Coolidge (1872-1933) lived there from 1876 to 1887.