Building date: 1848
Original use:
Corner structures: Brick quoins.
Mortar application and content:
Types and uses of stones: Quartzite "hard heads". Walls 22 inches thick. Cobblestones all through basement and attic. Four courses to the quoin.
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: Builder - Dutcher.
Unique features: Gothic style. Late verge board on gable end of the roof.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°55'52.23"N 73°14'32.58"W. Current owner of record, 29 Main Street NB LLC as of the 2019 Tax Roll. 2 unit residence.
City of Bennington and Bennington County Maps.
This house at 29 Main Street in North Bennington, Vt. was built in 1848 by Warren Whitney Dutcher, co-inventor of the "Dutcher Temple," a mechanism used in the manufacture of textiles. The house was auctioned off for $1 a chance. Dutcher never lived there. He and his family moved to Hopedale, Mass. in 1856. At that time the Colvin family lived there. This is of "Gothic Cottage" architecture popularized in the late 1840s and the 1850s. The looping verge board is a decorative tradition that comes out of late mediaeval southeastern England, a tradition that was much enhanced in the U.S. after the 1840s. (P. 9, History of North Bennington, Vermont by Herbert. Stebbins Walbridge, 1937). ¹ Richard Palmer blog.
Letter, written by Mrs. Randolph Lorom, North Bennington, Vermont.
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Pierce or Lorom
- Page 216
¹ Photography courtesy Martin and Sheila Wolfish.
² Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
³ Imagery and information courtesy Jane Griswold Radocchia, Richard Palmer blog.
