Roberge-Desautels Apartment House
Robarge-Desautels Apartment House | |
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44°28′55″N 73°13′2″W / 44.48194°N 73.21722°W / 44.48194; -73.21722 | |
Area | less than one acre |
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Built | 1900 (1900) |
Architectural style | Queen Anne |
NRHP reference No. | 13001120[1] |
Added to NRHP | January 22, 2014 |
The Robarge-Desautels Apartment House is a historic multi-unit residence at 54 North Champlain Street in Burlington, Vermont. Built about 1900, it is a well-preserved example of a Queen Anne style apartment house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.[1]
Description and history
The Robarge-Desautels Apartment House stands on the east side of North Champlain Street in Burlington's Old North End neighborhood, a short way south of its junction with North Street. It is a long rectangular 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof augmented by long shed-roof dormers to provide a full living space in the attic level. Its vernacular Queen Anne features include gabled bracketed hoods over two of its entrances, which flank a central projecting polygonal bay. That bay is capped by a gable that projects beyond the corners of the bay. Along the right side there are two porches, one set above the entrance to the third-floor unit, the other two stories at the rear. In between is a polygonal bay.[2]
The apartment house was built about 1900, during a building boom caused by Burlington's rapidly increasing demand for workers in its burgeoning lumber-related industries. It was built by John Robarge, a blacksmith who built several properties on North Champlain and nearby streets in an area that had formerly been a private estate. He used the building as a rental property, and in 1921 his widow sold it to Wilfred and Clara Desautels, who occupied one of its units for thirty years.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Liz Pritchett (2013). "NRHP nomination for Robarge-Desautels Apartment House" (PDF). State of Vermont. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
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