Building date: Circa 1850
Original use:
Corner structures: Granite quoins.
Mortar application and content:
Types and uses of stones: White quartzite stones from brook. Course spacing varies resulting in 2 to 3 courses per quoin
Types and choice of windows:
Structures with similar masonry details:
Masons who worked on building: Builder - Stone.
Unique features: Cobblestone facing on eaves.
Map views courtesy Google Maps. Address is Google Earth confirmed; 42°50'58.66"N 72°33'31.72"W. Current owner of record, PE 1 Housing LP as of the 2019 Tax Roll. Apartments
Editor's Note: Apparently the street number changed at some point in time. Earlier documentation and references state 12 Canal Street, whereas, current verified documentation states 34 Canal Street.
City of Brattleboro and Windham County Maps.
The Winslow-Ward House at 34 Canal Street, Brattleboro, dates to about 1860. It has been an apartment house owned by the Windham Housing Trust since 1995 and is part of the Canal Street-Clark Street Neighborhood Historic District. It is a very plain vernacular Neo-Classic architecture. It was built about 1850 of quartzite cobbles apparently collected from nearby Whetstone Brook. In the 1960s it was owned by Linus Edmunds.
Cobblestones vary from 1-1/2 to 2-1/2" high and the courses are 2-1/2 to 3-1/2" high from center to center of joints. Quoins are roughly cut gray granite blocks about 3-5" high, 10" long and 4 or 5" thick. Sometimes a course of large cobblestones correspond to one quoin height, and sometimes two courses of small cobblestones take up one quoin height. The 5" thick window sills and 8" high lintels are also of gray granite.
On both the front and rear gable ends the builder enclosed in a thin wood frame two courses of cobblestones that extend diagonally up to the roof line to the ridge to resemble verde boards. Projecting cornices on the gables are covered with two rows of cobbles, an unusual feature. Sills, lintels and quoins are rough granite. Richard Palmer blog.
"The Cobblestone Houses of Upstate New York", compiled by Dorothy Wells Pease. Research done in collaboration with Hazed B. Jeffery, supplemented with material furnished by Carl F. Schmidt, 1941. Reference the first paragraph on page 43.
Preservation Trust of Vermont Cobblestone House, Brattleboro.
Winslow Ward House, courtesy the Tom The Backroads Traveller blog.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration
- "Cobblestone Masonry", 1966, Carl Schmidt: Name reference, Ward - Edmunds House
- Page 216
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¹ Photography courtesy Gerda Peterich. Cobblestone Museum.
Image courtesy Richard Palmer. Attribution not provided.
