NEB&W Guide to North Bennington, VT - The Houses

Last Update: 2009-09-26

North Bennington Table of Contents
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• No. 605 Main St.
• No. 66 Main St.
• No. 611 Main St.
• No. 623 Main St.
• No. 63 Main St.
• No. 67 Main St.
• No. 632 Main St.
• No. 23/25 Greenwich St.
• No. 112 Greenwich St.

The Houses

• The houses up from the depot will be included in the model.
  • [Insurance map.]
  • [Prototype view c. 1981 of the row on the right side of Main Street.]

West Side

No. 605 Main St.

• No. 605 Main Street, an ornate house on the left side of the road.
  • [Insurance map. No. 605 is depicted in purple.]
  • [From the station, c. 1970's. (Note all the stately elms.)]
  • [Same angle, bare trees, c. late 1970's.]
  • [From the tracks, c. 2002. Elms all gone.]
  • [Front c. 1981.]
  • [Front c. 2002.]
  • [From the other side, c. 1981, also showing the carriage house/garage.]
  • [From the other side, c. 2002.]
  • [The garage, ex-carriage house c. 1981.]

No. 66 Main St.

• No. 66 Main Street, the next house up from no. 605. (Strange numbering system!)
  • [Insurance map. No. 66 is depicted in green.]
  • [Trackside c. 1973.]
  • [Photo c. 1980.]
  • [Photo c. 2002.]
  • [Ornate carriage house behind no. 66, c. 1981.]
  • [Carriage house, 2002.]

No. 611 Main St.

• No. 611 Main Street, the third house up, was very simple.
  • [Insurance map. No. 611 is depicted in yellow.]
  • [No. 611 is just visible past no. 66, c. 1973.]
  • [Photo c. 1981.]

East Side

No. 623 Main St.

• No. 623 was a very low house, particularly the second floor.
  • [Insurance map. No. 623 is depicted in green.]
  • [Photo c. 1981 (white house on the far right).]
  • [Photo c. 2002 of the side facing the track.]
  • [Front c. 1981. It is 25 feet wide.]
  • [Other side c. 1981.]
  • [Other side c. 2002.]
  • [Rear view c. 1981.]

No. 63 Main St.

• The next house on this side was no. 63.
  • [Insurance map. No. 63 is depicted in orange.]
  • [Prototype view c. 1981 with the house in the background.]
  • [Photo c. 1981 of the other side.]
  • [Another photo c. 1981. The depot is visible in the background.]
  • [Photo c. 2002, with the porch removed.]
  • [Rear view c. 1981. (There don't appear to be any windows on the back of the main building - weird!)]

No. 67 Main St.

• The third house back was no. 67.
  • [Insurance map. No. 67 is depicted in purple.]
  • [Prototype view c. 1981. If I was to try and classify this, I'd label it Queen Anne, simply from the bay window on the side, where the bottom is octagonal and the upper overhangs it at the corners.]
  • [Another view c. 1981.]
  • [Other side and rear c. 1981.]

No. 632 Main St.

• There was a two car garage in the middle of the field.
  • [Insurance map. What I think is this building is depicted in blue.]
  • [Insurance map (rotated). Again the garage is depicted in blue, way at the bottom of the map.]
  • [Prototype view c. 1981.]
  • [Prototype view c. 1981. Note Whitman way over on the right in the background.]

• No. 632, a single story house, was also in the middle of the field.
  • [Sanborn Map (rotated). This house is depicted in orange.]
  • [Photo c. 1970's. (The back of No. 15-17 Greenwich is in the background.)]
  • [Another photo c. 1980's.]
  • [Photo c. 1980's. (Whitman in the background.)]
  • [Prototype view c. 1981 of the garage. A corner of no. 632 is just barely visible on the right side of the garage.]

No. 23/25 Greenwich St.

• The house right behind the feed store was a duplex, no. 23 and 25 Greenwich St.
  • [Sanborn map of this section. The duplex is red.]
  • [Panoramic view, c. 1981. The house is the one partially obscured by the grain bins.]
  • [Another view , c. 1981. The house on the left.]
  • [Side view , c. 1981.]
  • [Three-quarter view of the side and front, c. 1981.]
  • [Three-quarter view of the other side and front, c. 1981.]
  • [Side view , c. 1984.]
  • [Rear view, c. 1984.]

No. 112 Greenwich St.

• The house across the street from Whitman's was 112 Greenwich St.
  • [Sanborn map of this section. The house is green. At this time, it had an open porch across the entire front.]
  • [Panoramic view , c. 1981. The house on the far right.]
  • [Another view , c. 1981. The house on the far right.]
  • [Photo, c. 1981. Note the asbestos shingles. (The shingles were a pale green.) The front porch has been removed.]
  • [Photo, c. 1984.]
  • [Another view, c. 1984.]

See our Layout Guide for North Bennington.

Also see The Fund for North Bennington, Inc. - Information about past and present North Bennington.

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