Roswell Butler House

Coordinates: 44°30′34″N 73°5′5″W / 44.50944°N 73.08472°W

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Roswell Butler House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	Upper Main St., Essex, Vermont
Coordinates	44°30′34″N 73°5′5″W / 44.50944°N 73.08472°W / 44.50944; -73.08472
Area	less than one acre
Built	1822 (1822)
NRHP reference No.	01001226^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 08, 2001

The Roswell Butler House is a historic house on Upper Main Street in Essex, Vermont. Built about 1822 with later alterations, it is a good local example of Federal period architecture. It was built for Roswell Butler, a prominent local businessman from whom the surrounding Butler's Corner neighborhood takes its name. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.^[1] It is also known as the 1820 Coffee House and the Kilmoyer House on the Essex Vermont town list of historic sites.^[2]^[3]

Description and history

The Roswell Butler House stands facing Upper Main Street (Vermont Route 15), roughly midway between the town's current downtown and its historic town center. It is on the south side of the road, a short way west of its junction with Commonwealth Avenue. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick building, with a gabled roof, interior end chimneys, and a stone foundation. It is five bays wide, with a late 19th-century porch extending across three bays and around to the left side. Windows have splayed stone lintels, and the roof cornice is modillioned. The main entrance is at the center of the front facade, topped by a semicircular fanlight. The porch has Queen Anne style turned posts, decorative brackets, and latticework skirting. The interior retains many original period features, including woodwork and plaster walls.^[4]

The Butler's Corner area was purchased in 1822 by Roswell Butler, who soon thereafter built this house and a store. His brother also built a house here, giving the area its name. It was until 1830 a center of civic activity, until it was supplanted by Essex Center, where the town hall, school, and churches were built. Butler was involved in a variety of businesses, lumber being the primary good, which was shipped to communities on the Hudson River via the Champlain Canal. He also established a hemp mill at Essex Junction, which was destroyed by a spring freshet in 1830.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
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^ ^a ^b Michael T. McQuillen (1999). "NRHP nomination for Roswell Butler House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-10-01. with photos from 1999

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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