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Fig. 22. Steam Plant #3, c. 1903

Consolidated Lighting Company Steam Plant #3 reserve power on the outskirts or Pioneer section of Montpelier, c. 1903.

Fig. 23. Interior of Consolidated Lighting Company Stream Plant, c. 1903

Interior of Consolidated Lighting Company Stream Plant, c. 1903.

Fig. 24. Harry J. Bertoli and sculptors, c. 1892.

Adjacent to the Pioneer Mills and across the Central Vermont Railroad tracks was a cluster of buildings that housed the granite operation of Harry J. Bertoli.

Fig. 25. Inside of Bertoli statuary shop, no date.

The granite operation of Harry J. Bertoli employed approximately fifteen people, six of whom were shaping statues and involved in carving work

Fig. 26. Margaret Pitkin Monument, "Little Margaret"

The monument to Margaret Pitkin, known as "Little Margaret," was created at the Bertoli shed in Montpelier in 1902.

Fig. 27. Bertoli Home on Taplin Street, c. 1905.

Harry and Maria Bertoli resided on Taplin Street in the Pioneer Mill neighborhood that was home to many Italian families, c. 1905.

Fig. 28. Harry and Maria Bertoli, 1888.

Harry and Maria Bertoli on their wedding day, 1888. After Harry's death at age 47, Maria, like many widows of granite workers, continued to take in boarders on Taplin Street to help make up for the loss of her husband's income.

Fig. 29. National Clothes Pin Company, c. 2000.

The National Clothespin Company moved into this building on Granite Street in 1918.

Fig. 30. Woman employees at the National Clothes Pin Company, c. 1938.

Woman employees outside the National Clothes Pin Company on Granite Street, c. 1938.

Fig. 31. Socony Filling Station, c. 1937.

This Socony filling station was one of Montpelier's first modern service stations, employing a canopy over the gas pumps?an architectural concept that became the standard throughout the area. Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) was a common…