Locust Creek House Complex

Coordinates: 43°48′32″N 72°39′4″W / 43.80889°N 72.65111°W

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Locust Creek House Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	VT 12, Bethel, Vermont
Coordinates	43°48′32″N 72°39′4″W / 43.80889°N 72.65111°W / 43.80889; -72.65111
Area	1.3 acres (0.53 ha)
Built	1837 (1837)
Built by	Putnam, Daniel
NRHP reference No.	82001766^[1]
Added to NRHP	December 10, 1982

The Locust Creek House Complex is a historic former tavern turned farmstead at 4 Creek Road (Vermont Route 12) in Bethel, Vermont. Built in 1837 and enlarged in 1860, it is a rare surviving example of a rural tavern in the state, with an added complex of agriculture-related outbuildings following its transition to a new role. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1] It now houses residences.

Description and history

The Locust Creek House Complex stands on the east side of Vermont Route 12, just south of its junction with Vermont Route 107. It is a rambling complex of wood-frame structures, one or two stories in height, with most of them connected together. Stretching along the road are a five-bay I-house and a four-bay carriage barn with open ground-floor bays. Projecting from the rear of the I-house is a 1+1⁄2-story ell, while a barn is joined to the northeast corner of the carriage barn, and a gabled shed extends further north from the side of the barn.^[2] The southern sections of this structure have been covered in a modern metal roof, and adapted for residential use, with the open carriage barn bays used as vehicle parking.

The house is the oldest portion of the building, and was constructed as a tavern in 1837. It was apparently not very successful financially, going through a number of lessee and ownership changes in its early years. The carriage barn was added in 1860, also including a large ballroom with a sprung floor on the second floor. Then billed as a hotel, it became a favored local social venue for dances and other events. Because the railroad did not pass nearby, it eventually declined and closed permanently in 1899. For the first half of the 20th century it was the centerpiece of a small dairy farm.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Hugh Henry (1981). "NRHP nomination for Locust Creek House Complex". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-07-23. with photos from 1981

National Register of Historic Places in Windsor County, Vermont

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Commercial	Aiken Stand Complex Fox Stand F. H. Gillingham & Sons Locust Creek House Complex Charles Marsh Law Office Pollard Block Progressive Market Simons' Inn Windsor House
Educational	Abbott Memorial Library Beaver Meadow School Black River Academy Eureka Schoolhouse Hartford Library Ludlow Graded School Park Street School Root School South Reading Schoolhouse Spencer Hollow School
Government	Damon Hall Fire District No. 2 Firehouse Reading Town Hall
Industrial	Bridgewater Woolen Mill Royalton Mill Complex
Religious	Beaver Meadow Union Chapel Cavendish Universalist Church Congregational Church of Ludlow Old Christ Church St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Residential	Atherton Farmstead Augustus and Laura Blaisdell House Twing Buckman House Rev. George Daman House Dewey House Wentworth and Diana Eldredge House Ezekiel Emerson Farm Farrar-Mansur House Joseph Fessenden House Reverend Dan Foster House Fowler-Steele House Gate of the Hills Daniel Gay House Glimmerstone Greenwood House Harrington House Hartness House Jeffrey House Wales N. Johnson House Juniper Hill Farm-Maxwell Evarts House Lockwood-Boynton House Luce Farm Maple Hill Farm Joseph and Daniel Marsh House McKenstry Manor Meeting House Farm Owen Moon Farm NAMCO Block Old Constitution House Aaron Jr. and Susan Parker Farm Zachariah Spaulding Farm Walter and Sylvia Stockmayer House Jedediah Strong II House David Sumner House John Wilder House

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‡This historic property also has portions in an adjacent state.

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