71 College Street, Arsenal Cottage

71 College Street, Arsenal Cottage

Carnahan, Paul

The small brick cottage at the corner of College and Arsenal Streets is a small portion of a much larger three-building complex that once stood there. A substantial brick arsenal was constructed here during the Civil War, just down the street from the U.S. Army’s Sloan General Hospital, to hold the state’s munitions. A fire caused by lightning in September 1945 destroyed the main building and many of the state’s military records, leaving this small cottage and a granite-post fence surrounding the property that were divided up into private building lots.

ca. 1880; 2021; 2015

Vermont Historical Society Picture Collection (F-TO-Montpelier, College Street)

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Leahy Library, Vermont Historical Society, 60 Washington Street, Suite 1, Barre, Vermont 05641