 Hi, welcome to CCTV channel 17 live at 525 the preservation Burlington show Preservation Burlington is a non-profit 501 c3 organization Our mission is to preserve and protect the historic architecture and livability of Burlington through education and advocacy I think I need to raise the cue card. So I'm looking at the screen when I'm talking Thanks again for tuning in I know it's been quite a hiatus, but we've had a couple of good shows in a row now and Yep, and Preservation Burlington has been staying busy with webinars. We've been doing virtual walking tours All through the past couple of years Of course, we've done some live stuff and we have a full schedule set up for this summer of neighborhood walking tours and in an effort to Compensate for the last couple of years and not doing the the homes tour. So all of that's going to be pretty Fun and exciting stuff. I'm really pleased to say that past president Preservation Burlington Karen Norwood is here who's been spearheading a lot of our our virtual offerings with I think Not surprising in the content, but surprising in that we don't do that normally how popular they've been Yeah, it's really really exciting to see a lot of people just excited to learn about We've been focusing on the last couple webinars We've done on architectural styles and Burlington and that's something that people have been really excited about because one of the great things about Burlington is it's such an awesome place to go for walks and To go out and to be able to identify architecture and learn a little bit about what you're seeing around you is just really fun And it's been something that I think a lot of people are really interested in so it's great to see turns out they are So a little bit about you because you're obviously really good at this You teach right? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I graduated from the UBM historic preservation program in 2013, but I also am a teacher as well. So I really really love to educate people about the past and really fortunate to be able to still be with Preservation Burlington and be able to Help and participate with our educational activities like webinars and I just think there's nothing more exciting than teaching people about What we have all around you us our historical surroundings Education committee member of course, and yeah, it's great. Obviously having you still be a part of the group How about the Ramble? The Ramble. Yes, the Ramble was so much fun. We did it was so exciting to be able to it must have been like a hundred people I don't know right two megaphones I think people so we did a In-person walking tour at the Ramble this past summer and we had a huge turnout through the Old North End learning a little bit about The past we had an amazing intern with us Nick Agresta who did a lot of great research with us to put together that tour and a lot of people showed up I think everyone was just really excited to be able to get out to Be with other people to walk around a community and learn so I'm hoping we'll be able to this summer We're hoping to have a bunch of walking tours available for the public to get people back out because Because they want us the best way to do it the best way to do it the virtual stuff is Interesting can be I've been doing all kinds of like webinars and different things But you know, there's definitely like a zoom burnout Where it's like the nice thing is you miss it like I missed our webinar because I had a conflict and I was so upset hence, thank you for coming in and doing it over again for me personally right here, but um Yeah, but a lot of times, you know, they're available later so you can rewatch them or watch Definitely and we don't have a whole lot of time for the program today, so I definitely can't go into every single The full length of the webinar that I did a few weeks ago on Burlington's Architecture by neighborhood, but we will have that posted on our website So if you do want to watch the whole thing and go through all of those Slides and learn about the different neighborhoods that's definitely gonna be available for you. It's great. Yeah, there's a lot of slides I know we won't get through all of it today But so you you said earlier and it is true walking around Burlington is a lot of fun But the thing I like about the way you've put the slides together and of course broke this down by neighborhood So it's architectural style, but it's also pretty easily Broken down by neighborhoods, right? Yeah Yes, and I didn't get to every single neighborhood that would have been like a 200 slide presentation But we can certainly I can give you a little sneak preview of of what we we started to talk with so The first neighborhood we really were focusing on was in the downtown area and so what you're gonna see in a moment is First of all that burnt buildings and their styles provide clues to our neighborhoods are developed So when you look around in Burlington, you're going to see a Whole bunch of different styles and neighborhoods and they're often times grouped together because that's when that neighborhood was developed So I kind of went through oldest up to modern so the The webinar went through downtown looking at Pearl to King, which is kind of the earliest area settled by Europeans And then I went into the Hill section the Old North End the five sisters Prospect Park that area and then the New North End So looking through the 1800s all the way up to the mid 20th century or later And you know now the mid 20th century that's considered historic architecture right 60 years or older Yeah, and if Washington slept there Two strikes for making it historic. I know so for all of you who? 40 what was it now? 1950 years 60 60 years ago right is it 50 years? It's 50. It's 50 so 1970 1972 anyone around that age you're historic so those split levels from my childhood are all historic They're getting up there. Yes, they are and they tell a really interesting story about the United States at that time So right now on this you can see There is an image from 1830 this is the plan of Burlington Village by Amy B. Young all these images are available And I really recommend going to UVM Center for Digital Initiatives. It's an online incredible collection of maps photographs of Burlington, so if you Really want to do some more research about your community your neighborhood in Burlington check those maps out It's a fabulous resource you can zoom in and out and there's just so much to see about how Burlington's changed over time It's so cool to see those big blank areas where now there's all streets and houses You know you compare that map to the bird's-eye map of 77 1877 yeah, yeah, yeah, and even then the development was really taken off Crazy, and I mean that really we see so much growth in Burlington with like the historic architecture from the mid 1800s up until the early 1900s because this was a period where Burlington had its biggest boom in population With the lumber industry really thriving and Burlington was just really growing at this time So a lot of the architecture we see mirrors that time period Yep, you live in a gorgeous old house I do. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and I think you know, it's funny So it's not federal style the massing is federal style, but it's an Italian ate it lost its cupola But it's funny. It was built on the redstone quarry land that Daniel Dyer Howard Purchased the land from the quarry and he had so there's an attachment to my deed that I'm not allowed to Quarry the land so nobody since has been allowed to quarry the land Non-competition clause. It's fascinating So let's start talking a little bit about the downtown area So that's the earliest area where Europeans were settling and that's where we see one of our earliest styles So the federal style of architecture All of these earliest styles are really borrowed from Europe So what was trendy over there was brought over here? federal's considered the national the first national style of our new country and It was really modeled off of Roman architecture Wasn't it before we hated the king wasn't it called Georgian? Yeah, you could even Georgian was before federal So Georgian was this time. Yeah, we're like, haha George. He's great But yeah, federal came in and that was like this is our new colony. This is our new nation and We had a new style. We left King George behind with a Georgian architecture. That's right. Yeah, so you'll see federal's all along Pearl Street, so there's a great example up there with our wonderful 1860 Federal-style church right along Pearl Street at the top of church. You can always tell federal by the Fan shape so there's a fan light. So when you look for the round arches above windows or doors That's a dead giveaway of the federal style of architecture. I think a couple more examples. Yeah, so this is right on pearl Covered in ivy, but you can see that fan light above the door and it's such a distinct giveaway of that style Yeah, so when you see the fan light usually and you're in an area that was developed in you know the early 1800s It's probably a federal and that massing is very symmetrical. Yeah There's two windows on each side of a door two windows above that very order Yeah, and there's another style we see often that goes right along with that and that's the Greek revival style So you'll see this all throughout the the downtown as well And we have high-style examples of it and we have more vernacular Less ornate examples of this style. So Greek revival style happened in the 1830s up until the 1850s or so This was a really popular style that you guessed it. That looks like after Greek temples So you can see this one is the Timfold house and this is a really great high-style example That's the fallot, right? You see that from the waterfront Yep, you had big parties there in the 1840s and Then he lost all his money and died. I think in an insane asylum. I think so. Yeah It's interesting story, but not a happy story. Not a happy story beautiful house though. Yeah, absolutely So this is an example of a more simple Greek revival and I like to use this one as an example of a building that's changed over time There's an addition to the front of it a one-story edition that kind of wraps around and Coins on the corner. So is that Italian eight technically or I mean it has yeah The coins are definitely an indication of Italian a however. I think this is probably you know 1980s and I wouldn't say Ron Would you say this is a good addition to this Greek revival or not? I I would say it's less than sympathetic Yes, the original design you do you can still make out the pedimented gable bow. Yeah so in the 1850s we have a Boom in Burlington you can see it's a lot more developed as you think about that 1830s map We're looking in the 1850s Burlington starting to build up lumber industry starting to get going and you can see more people are settling There's more buildings And more more houses. So these two You see the JW Hickok building this I think is owned by UBM and I think it's a sorority. Okay, Delta Delta Delta and Yes, the other building is owned by Champlain College now And again, so there's a lot of these wealthy people who have really great high-style examples of styles The JW Hickok is actually one of the earliest Italianates in Burlington that we have I think it's like 1852 or so Yeah, and speaking of Italianates, I think we have an image up here. So there it is today Yep, and then I think I have another yep. Perfect. So the Italianate style Super super popular in the United States. You see this throughout And you'll see a lot of examples again in Burlington's downtown area Really distinct with the overhanging eaves and the bracketed cornice Yep, usually like a flat or low-lying hip to roof tall windows And then they often have crowns on top of them, which that's such a such a beautiful version Yeah, that's a really great. That's on Union Street. Yeah. Yep. I think do we have them on the homeless tour a few years ago? We or maybe it's the Queen Anne next door. Yeah, I think it's the Queen Anne next door I think this one is condominium eyes So there's like a couple units in the front and then they built off of the back You know and they built well because everything off the back is sort of hidden so the house still stands alone as an example of its its architecture Love it. It's a great example. There's another example of an Italianate and it has the The Coupel on the top or the Belvedere. So that's another kind of distinct giveaway of that style You can stay at that one. Yeah, I know right so gorgeous Second Empire this was on the Holmes tour one year. Oh, yeah, I just remembered that Yeah, and another style you're gonna see is the second Empire style super distinct and fun it comes out of France actually and The the roof is a man's hard roof and so that's dead giveaway It's like a double-hipped roof and it has that really distinct shape and whenever you see one of those buildings You can almost guess it's from the 1870s. Yeah, because that was like the heyday of it You know, I it's don't tell my house, but it's one of my favorites The second Empire style too, it's so wonderful the Adams family Every it's anonymous now with like spooky houses Yep, I do too. It's like it's definitely my favorite Italianate being my second favorite Queen Anne's are fun. Yeah, they are. All right 1890 Burlington. Let's get into Queen Anne's getting so developed Yes, you know by that time period is the Queen Anne style. This one's super fun. It's really eclectic And we have a lot of really great examples of Queen Anne's builders and architects went wild They went wild you can see them throughout Burlington. There's the pattern shingle work, and there's different colors They have usually a tower on them They're usually pretty asymmetrical in shape And you know, you'll see many streets of Burlington like this where you have just kind of rows of Queen Anne's that are now Kind of all chopped up into apartment buildings. Yeah, because they were so big. Yeah Time little doors everywhere. I know it's so fun I think a friend of mine has a Queen Anne up on off of Mansfield and I think they've got Seven doors on the first floor heading out It's crazy. No front door back door, you know, there's side doors. There's a couple of side doors There's door off of them off of the bay window. They're definitely fun fun house yeah, so um, I'm gonna go through the hill section and then I Love to I don't know much how much more time we have. Oh, we've got plenty of time plenty of time awesome All right, so I'm gonna touch upon the hill section and then it's really cool We'll see a lot of More folk examples or more vernacular examples of these same styles in the the old north end So the hill section this is generally a more well-to-do neighborhood area And it's still more of a well-to-do area in Burlington and there's generally because that's where my house Yeah, exactly This is a great high-style example of a tutor revival right by Champlain College and tutor revivals you guessed it It's like thinking medieval turn of like renaissance period where you have like the really steep shaped Roof pitches the front-facing gable and you have usually sometimes a stucco sidings kind of mimicking like if you think of like Old English streets with like the tall skinny gable roofs and sometimes timber Yeah, the Waddle and Dove and stucco in between. Yeah, and they do that with tutor revivals, too They'll have like the the fake wooden timbers on there to kind of mimic that that time period, right, right Here's another really awesome high-style example of a Queen Anne One of the very best at UBM. You really can't beat that building. That's the alumni house, right? 61 Summit Street everybody can go take a look at it. We've had events there. Yeah, and this one has really incredible Woodworking, too, which I think you were involved Albert Whitikin with restoring. Yep We got to take all those panels off of that building take them to our shop fill them and pitch them and paint them and put them back So yeah, there it is gorgeous create those little pieces everywhere It's great because that port-co-sher when you pull in in the direction you're supposed to pull in There's a happy Greek face there, and as you pull out it's angry and sad because you're leaving They don't build them like they used to. They don't build them like they used to. No, sir. That's why we got to save them That's right each and every one. That's right Colonial revivals. So this is a really broad Style it's so diverse and the examples that you'll see you'll see Dutch Colonials with like the gambrel roof. You'll see Georgian revivals. They're all over And it spans from the late 19th century up to the mid 20th so long so popular so long so popular Yeah, in the hill section, you'll see a lot of really great examples of the style Gorgeous one there. There's another one. This one is a little bit later, and you can tell it was really done I almost feel like sometimes the later that you get in like the 40s 50s I feel like the house has almost become even more accurate to their colonial They were trying harder to be really trying harder. It was less eclectic. Yep. Yep No, they're this one's actually a neoclassical Building so it has that tall two-story Entry and then the one-story porch that wraps around it and that's pretty much a hallmark of the neoclassical Again neoclassical me what era would that be so that's pretty much kind of the same spectrum as colonial revival Yep, but the distinguishing feature is the full height entry porch And that kind of makes a difference with with capitals and everything Yeah, that's a way to distinguish it from the colonial revival. Okay. Yeah. Now. This is an interesting house, right? Shingle style runs a gamut, but I know this is in the neighborhood I mean and there's I think four at least four of them that are identical to and then the other street to back-to-back sort of You know and then actually this one I think is right on Willard. So yeah Yeah, shingle styles really fun again, and this was considered one of our early first American like true architectural styles and Really the way to identify this one is it usually will have like a gambrel roof line. It's sometimes a regular, but then it also has Clotting that really just wraps around it like a second a second skin. That's a distinctive way about it There's an amazing high-style example. I think there's one right on the next. Yeah, this one's a great example of a shingle style I think they won a preservation award from us a few years ago this Squinting I want to see where it's hanging up. I think you're right though. They did. Yeah, it's gorgeous Nice shingle style. This one's fun. I haven't seen any other examples of this, but this is also in the hill section French eclectic again, this is part of that whole period of revival architecture and Yeah, see the little diamond pane windows. Yeah, the diamond pane windows absolutely Yeah, the roof line is outrageous But yeah, that's an only example of a French eclectic style Inset dormer So fun pretty pretty neat stuff. Absolutely. How long do you have to walk around town to find that one? I've taken so many photos of so many houses Ron It's really crazy. So we're gonna get to my neighborhood, which is awesome. I'm glad we get to talk about it It's the Old North End and the Old North End this area was Really settled by a lot of immigrants today. It is still a very diverse place, which is amazing I love the Old North End for its diversity and culture and Old North End really was an area that had a lot more vernacular Or simple houses just because it was more of an area that was more for like the working class Versus the Hill section. So you'll see a lot of houses like this one, which are really don't have a style In that case, they're just kind of called a folk house. My own house is a folk house. It's simple gable gable front You'll see them all through It's actually very common profile if you walk down a street in the Old North End You'll just see kind of rows of gable front Yeah, with like a yep. Yeah, it's super common. There's another example of one the vernacular the vernacular I Love them. Yeah, this is a vernacular Greek revival. You can just tell it is it's from that time period instead of having that elaborate Temple front like we saw on Tim Follett's house full at its house. We have just like a little cornice Yeah, that indicate that it's Greek revival So it has a little bit of the style but obviously the people that owned that house couldn't afford all of it Little more humble a little more humble. Yep. No, I mean the colors obviously I'm You know because the colors, you know, you think Queen Anne because of the way they painted the Queen Anne's in San Francisco Which isn't necessarily accurate, but what's this? This is an Italian eight. Yeah, so heavy bracketed flat roof line You can see the brackets on it and this one is an Old North End and unlike, you know That big fancy one we saw was kind of standalone all in brick. This one was a duplex So it was made for people multiple families to live there and indicative of the socioeconomic level in this community and then you know with these with these simpler Examples of styles it shows like everyone wanted to have the fashion of the time period You could do it with just a little bit of embellishment And it's really cool to see that in the Old North End just compared to the hill section Sometimes you can see that's a fun thing about working on older houses, too Like you'll see You know a pretty a vernacular house, but I'll have all these like added on Embellishments from a different period so if it was built in the early 1800s or something then all of a sudden it's got a talent Yeah, you can see those changes. It's so fun because yeah, they're like I want to update and modernize it And so you added in like the next thing This is a Queen Anne duplex you can see it's asymmetrical. There's like a tower on one side Just a really nice example of this style For the Old North End. Yeah, and pretty big in France. Here's some more examples of the Queen Anne You'll see in the neighborhood in the Old North End Again very diverse architectural style. Ah These ones are so great. You're gonna tell a story. Do you want to tell the story? Yeah, because you know it better than I do but John Roberts, right? We see them all over town You see them all over town John Roberts So John Roberts was a builder in the area and like around the 1890s or so and he built these houses these simple Gable front houses with a bay window With the Queen Anne embellishment in the the Gable As a way for people to have the style of the time the Queen Anne style of the time But also at a very affordable price and they're so fun. You'll see them. It's like a scavenger hunt You walk around Burlington neighborhoods. You're like, there's a John Roberts house There's a John Roberts house and they're so distinctive because see they were built really like the plan of the houses is very much the same Yeah, yeah, once you see one you see them everywhere, right? It's like when you buy a new car and then you see that car everywhere same thing You're like, oh John Roberts house all of a sudden every time you turn around there's one there Have you ever been in a John Roberts house? I have. Is it amazing? They are pretty neat Yeah, we'll stairwells and a nice trim work inside and you know, and then he just disappeared, right? Yeah Yeah, I kind of like fades away. I don't really know too much Oh Maybe bankruptcy maybe murdered maybe there's like a whole bunch of different stories out there that I smell a Needs to research that Uncover the mystery. I you'll also see a lot of Dutch Well, you'll see a lot of colonial revivals especially the further up in the old north end You get kind of going towards when you ski you'll see more colonial revivals And so this is an example of a Dutch colonial revival With the flared ease and it's really it's actually I think it's on a street called like colonial lane or something like that Yeah, and there's a ton of really great examples of the style there You'll also see in the old north end. I love these two. Yeah American four squares So this is a shape not a style. So it might have had styles applied to it. This one has some craftsmen embellishments to it But it's kind of how it sounds. It's a square shape two story It has a front dormer almost always it has a full-width one story front porch hip to roof very distinctive Early 20th century. We'll see those Mm-hmm, and then you'll see also craftsmen right which kind of borrow that same, you know Like those four squares can lean craftsmity because the difference the change of siding and So passion was a response to industrialization and it really is focusing actually was borrowed from like arts and crafts movement in England then it was brought over starting in California with the green and green Brothers and then it kind of became super widespread and prevalent in the United States You'll see many many examples of a craftsman something that knows it industrialization. Yes. Yes Yes, we don't have a whole lot of time left, but the five sisters neighborhood is a really fascinating part of Burlington. So the streets are named after five sisters and these were sisters of Maria Buell Hungerford, so they were her children and they were named the streets were named after them So she's just like a wealthy family from the Buell estate They kind of chopped up several big estates to form the five sisters neighborhoods in the 1920s. Yeah, and this is one of the Estates that was broken up. This is the Hick Hock estate And so in the 1920s all this land was sold up to developers and they created the five sisters And the five sisters is just an amazing distinct neighborhood in Burlington It gets like in magazines all the time best place to live and it's amazing. It's a fabulous neighborhood. I walk through the five Walkable Houses are cute Yeah, this whole neighborhood was developed for for working-class families and made in the latest styles of the day So you'll see lots of really great examples of colonial revivals Tudor revivals craftsmen Throughout the neighborhood Walk there today don't drive because the rotary is being done over. Yes. It's a hot mess there So you'll see Tudor revivals in that neighborhood. It's again the steep pitch. You'll see craftsmen As you walk through You'll also see kid houses Yeah, we did a home store on kid houses that one year. So And got a lot of them in that neighborhood. Yeah, kid houses are the best They're so fun and then you'll see colonial revivals as well So kid houses is really cool and might be not a bad way to end. So kid houses were developed. Oh, perfect Yeah, kid houses was in the early 20th century and basically there are tons of big companies like sears and roebuck laden And basically they created Catalogs and families could like look through these catalogs and pick out a house that they wanted Pieces would all be shipped to them by the train Builder would pick those parts up and build the house just like in the picture Yeah, it's also a fun scavenger hunt. So there's tons of people who are like kid house enthusiasts And they'll go through neighborhoods and they're like, uh, like I think that could be sears like the lucerne And so it's just a really awesome Cool development in american architecture. Just so you know, um, even so if we go over The picture goes away, but we could talk the rest of the night if you want because we could just say You know on and on and on because it's such a fun topic hours I think that um, I think we've given everybody a good they can go deeper on our website, but they you know Very obviously there's amazing places to um walk all over town and and just once you start, you know Field guide to american houses Great book if you get a used copy of it and just walk around look for them. It's so much fun You know so much fun and and the maps so thanks. Thanks for sharing that Yeah, absolutely. I hope you guys people can join us this summer for some walking tours I hope you check out. We will be posting the webinar So you want to hear about the other more modern neighborhoods? You can find it on our website Yep, and we'll be and the schedule will be posted up there too. So Yeah, because I know we planned a lot of stuff so I can't remember it off my head when things are hitting but Um, I do want to thank everybody for tuning in to cctv live at 5 25 in preservation burlington For more interest for more information on burlington history Or our tours and events like we just said to where to get a marker for your house go to preservation burlington dot org And we'll see you next month. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks. Karen. Hey, it's fun