Old Stone House (Winooski, Vermont)

Coordinates: 44°29′28″N 73°11′1″W / 44.49111°N 73.18361°W

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Old Stone House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	73 E. Allen St., Winooski, Vermont
Coordinates	44°29′28″N 73°11′1″W / 44.49111°N 73.18361°W / 44.49111; -73.18361
Area	less than one acre
Built	1789 (1789)
NRHP reference No.	73000271^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 8, 1973

The Old Stone House is a historic house at 73 East Allen Street in central Winooski, Vermont. Built around 1790, it is the city's oldest building. It has served as a tavern, as a residence, and now supports professional offices. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

Description and history

The Old Stone House stands a short way east of Winooski's central Rotary Park, on the north side of East Allen Street between Cascade Way and Abenaki Way. It is a 2+1⁄2-story structure, built out of rough-cut stone and capped by a side gable roof. It has a five-bay front facade, with sash windows in the outer bays set in rectangular openings. The front entrance is at the center, flanked by wide sidelight windows, and there is a second doorway above on the second level, set at a recess with an iron balustrade across the lower part of the opening. A wood-frame addition, nearly as old as the main block, extends to the rear.^[2]

The house was supposedly built around 1790 by Roswell Butler, and is the city's only surviving building from the period immediately following the American Revolutionary War. It served as a public accommodation (at times a tavern, but also for some time as a hotel) until 1826, with the rear addition added in 1793. It was then converted into a multi-unit residential apartment house, a use that was abandoned in the 1960s.^[2] It now houses professional offices.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Chester Liebs (1972). "NRHP nomination for Old Stone House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-11-13. with photos from 1972

National Register of Historic Places in Chittenden County, Vermont

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Commercial/ Industrial	Burlington Montgomery Ward Building Burlington Traction Company Ethan Allen Engine Company No. 4 William Fitzgerald Block Moquin's Bakery Moran Municipal Generation Station Old Red Mill and Mill House Porter Screen Company Richmond Underwear Company Building Saltus Grocery Store Tavern on Mutton Hill Winooski Block
Government	Chittenden County Courthouse † U.S. Post Office and Custom House
Educational	Carnegie Building of the Fletcher Free Library Champlain School Converse Hall District No. 5 Schoolhouse Jonesville Academy Proctor Maple Research Farm
Religious	First Baptist Church First Methodist Church Howard Mortuary Chapel Huntington Lower Village Church Methodist Episcopal Church of Winooski Old Ohavi Zedek Synagogue Richmond Congregational Church Williston Congregational Church
Residential	Ethan Allen Homestead Apartment Building at 27 and 31 Peru Street and 29 Johnson Street Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley House Roswell Butler House Martin Chittenden House Dumas Tenements Duplex at 22-26 Johnson Street Duplex at 73-75 Sherman Street Follett House Galusha House Grasse Mount House at 44 Front Street Martin L. Kelsey House LeFerriere House McNeil Homestead Mintzer House Normand House Old Stone House Charles R. Palmer House Cicero Goddard Peck House John B. Robarge Duplex Roberge-Desautels Apartment House Daniel Webster Robinson House Lucy Ruggles House Stannard House Lee Tracy House Edward Wells House Wells-Jackson Carriage House Complex Winterbotham Estate

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† This entry has been removed from the registry.
‡ This historic property also has portions in an adjacent county.

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