Lamoille County Courthouse

United States historic place

Lamoille County Courthouse

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location| 154 Main St., Hyde Park, Vermont
Coordinates| 44°35′35″N 72°37′4″W﻿ / ﻿44.59306°N 72.61778°W﻿ / 44.59306; -72.61778
Area| less than one acre
Built| 1912 (1912)
Built by| Nichols and Parker
Architect| Austin, Zachary Taylor
Architectural style| Romanesque, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.| 95001497[1]
Added to NRHP| January 11, 1996

The Lamoille County Courthouse is located at 154 Main Street in Hyde Park, the shire town of Lamoille County, Vermont. Built in 1912 to a design by Burlington architect Zachary Taylor Austin (1850–1910), it is a good example of Romanesque and Colonial Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]

## Description and history

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The Lamoille County Courthouse is centrally located in the village of Hyde Park, amid a cluster of other government buildings set back from the south side of Main Street. It is an imposing 2+1⁄2-story brick building, with 3+1⁄2-story pyramid-roofed tower rising from the front left corner. The main roof is hipped, with dormers projecting from each side, and a low pyramidal roof at the front right corner. The tower has a square belfry stage below the roof, which is pierced by dormered clock faces and topped by a weathervane. The front facade is five bays wide, with a single-story porch extending across the center three bays. It is supported by round columns, and has Union Jack balustrade both on the ground floor, and encircling its roof. Second-floor windows are set in round-arch openings, with the outer and central bays housing doubled windows.[2]

The county's first courthouse was built in Hyde Park in 1836, not long after the county was created by the state legislature, and Hyde Park was chosen as its shire town. That courthouse and 17 other buildings were destroyed by Hyde Park's "Great Fire" in 1910; county records were preserved in fireproof safes. The present building was built in 1911–12 to a design by Burlington architect Zachary Taylor Austin. It is stylistically a distinctive blend of the Colonial Revival and Romanesque Revival, a combination not seen in the state's other county courthouses. The interior, which includes a large courtroom spanning the second floor, has seen little alteration since its construction. It is believed that this building's fire vaults may be those from the 1836 courthouse.[2]

## See also

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* National Register of Historic Places listings in Lamoille County, Vermont

## References

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1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. ^ a b Scott Gurley (1995). "NRHP nomination for Lamoille County Courthouse". National Park Service. Retrieved December 16, 2016. with photos from 1995

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National Register of Historic Places in Lamoille County, Vermont

Districts|

* Elmore State Park
* Jeffersonville Historic District
* Morrisville Historic District
* Moscow Village Historic District
* Stowe Village Historic District
* Waterville Village Historic District

Buildings|

* Cambridge Meetinghouse
* Green Mountain Inn
* Johnson Railroad Depot
* Lamoille County Courthouse
* Morrisville Depot
* Nye Block
* Peoples Academy-Copley Building, Grout Observatory and Community Bandshell
* Stowe CCC Side Camp

Structures|

* Bridge 6
* Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge
* Gates Farm Covered Bridge
* Gold Brook Covered Bridge
* Grist Mill Covered Bridge
* Jaynes Covered Bridge
* Jeffersonville Bridge
* Lamoille River Route 15-A Bridge
* Mill Covered Bridge
* Montgomery Covered Bridge
* Morgan Covered Bridge
* Poland Covered Bridge
* Power House Covered Bridge
* Red Covered Bridge
* Scribner Covered Bridge
* Village Covered Bridge
* Waterman Covered Bridge

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Lamoille County, Vermont and List of National Historic Landmarks in Vermont
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