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Is this the same house? It is, but this house at 61 College Street now has a different facade. This was the home of Rooney M. Harvey who represented Topsham in the state legislature and Orange County in the state senate before moving to Montpelier…

110 years ago, the entrance to Montpelier’s downtown was filled with vertical structures, a stark contrast to today’s spare appearance. Cars traversed a wide 1898 Pratt Truss bridge over the Winooski. The E. W. Bailey grain elevator stood sentinel…

The eastern end of what we now call Memorial Drive was a hub of industrial activity in the late nineteenth century. Winooski Avenue, as it was known, was part of Berlin until 1899 when the area was annexed by Montpelier. It was a dirt road lined…

State Street has housed many hotels and guest houses over the years. One of them was the Riverside Inn at 128 State Street. This impressive French Second Empire-style building was constructed in 1869 out of the remains of the smaller episcopal…

When the State of Vermont needed to build more office space in the late 1930s, it looked no further than across the street from the State House. That stretch of street was occupied by four residential buildings that would have to be removed to make…

When Edward Dewey, vice president of National Life Insurance Company, in 1889 decided that he wanted to build a large, ornate Queen Anne-style house across the street from the State House (see “Then & Now,” The Bridge, September 7, 2022), he didn’t…

Stereoview of the porch of the second Pavilion Hotel, showing guests seated on chairs, 1879

Across River Street from the Garcia house was a wrecking garage used to repair and service vehicles of all shapes and sizes at all hours of the day and night.

Rock of Ages Eureka Plant #6 was diagonally across the street from the Garcia house on River Street in Montpelier.

Portion of E. W. Bailey building on west side of Main Street, damaged by the 1927 flood. The State House dome can be seen in the distance.

Railroad Yards of the Montpelier & Wells River and Central Vermont Railroads, as seen from the top of the E. W. Bailey Grain elevator, 1929. The number of tracks here has been reduced to one and the area is now known as Stone Cutters Way.

Nine people standing on the porch of a house that today has the address of 77 Berlin Street, Montpelier, Vermont. This area was part of Berlin, Vermont, when this photo was taken, probably in the summer of 1898.

Craig Durham, on 12/19/2020, wrote:…