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  • Collection: Montpelier Photographs

Pavilion building, 2005

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Color photograph of the Pavilion Office Building, Montpelier, Vermont, 2005.

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

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

Four men on porch

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Four men stand on the porch of a house, perhaps in Montpelier or Berlin, Vermont.

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

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

Family on veranda, 77 Berlin Street

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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:…

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

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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.

Family on Bridge over Stream

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A family including two women, one man, and a child stand on a wooden bridge over a bubbling stream in the woods. Location is unknown, but it might be Great Brook in Middlesex (off of Brook Road).

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

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

Stone House Shell

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Gutted shell of a stone house, probably in the Lake Champlain valley.

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

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

Two Men on Bicycles

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Two men sit on their bicycles near a house, probably at 51 Berlin Street in Montpelier, Vermont. Based on another photograph in our collection, the man on the left is probably "Mr. Hammond."

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

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