Roberge-Desautels Apartment House

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Robarge-Desautels Apartment House
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Location54 N. Champlain St., Burlington, Vermont
Coordinates 44°28′55″N73°13′2″W / 44.48194°N 73.21722°W / 44.48194; -73.21722 Coordinates: 44°28′55″N73°13′2″W / 44.48194°N 73.21722°W / 44.48194; -73.21722
Arealess than one acre
Built1900 (1900)
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No. 13001120 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 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]

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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+12-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]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Liz Pritchett (2013). "NRHP nomination for Robarge-Desautels Apartment House" (PDF). State of Vermont. Retrieved 2016-11-27.