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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.…

American Legion Post #3 at 21 Main Street is housed in one of the few wood frame buildings remaining downtown. It probably dates from just after the Montpelier Fire of 1875 that flattened this area of the city. In this 1915 photograph P.J.…

Picnic of granite workers 50 years of age and older. The man wearing a light-colored hat, dark suit, and holding a cane in the front row is Severino Rossi (1848-1902), who was born in Bisuschio, Italy, and who came to Barre in 1896. Several of the…

Photograph of a large group of Barre residents, presumably from Bisuschio, Italy, celebrating in a wooded setting. Several men hold mugs of a beverage. One has an accordion, one has a cello, one has an open doctor's bag, one has a carved watermelon,…

Photograph of a group of Barre men, presumably from Bisuschio, Italy, celebrating in a wooded setting. Several men hold mugs of a beverage. One has a rifle, one has an accordion, one has a cello, one has a doctor's bag, and one is sitting on a…

A group of 11 men and a boy, members of the Italian Athletic Club Lumpers pose for a photograph with shovel, broom, rake, pickaxe, and baseball bat. One man wears a sweater with the IAC logo on it. The men are dressed well and all but one are wearing…

A group of ten baseball players from the Italian Independent Club of Barre, Vermont, pose for a picture in a field. The men are all wearing baseball uniforms. The IIC was formed in 1908. This may be a team that competed with the Italian Athletic Club…

Photograph of the dining room of the Hotel Barre, 30 Washington Street, Barre, Vermont.

Photograph of the Hotel Barre, 30 Washington Street, Barre, Vermont. Building is located between the Aldrich Public Library and Hedding Methodist Church.

This house at the corner of Church and Washington Streets, in Barre, Vermont, was the home of Dr. Orlando G. Stickney (1857-1944). Dr. Stickney moved to Barre in 1893. In 1904, he joined with fourteen other physicians to advocate for a hospital in…

Drama performed by the Knights of Pythias, Barre. Antonio M. Rossi (the man writing in a notebook) portrays a reporter investigating a shooting incident.

Drama performed by the Knights of Pythias, Barre. Antonio M. Rossi (the man writing in a notebook) portrays a reporter investigating a shooting incident.