Lind Houses

Historic house in Vermont, United States

United States historic place

Lind Houses

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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Location| Pleasant St., South Ryegate, Vermont
Coordinates| 44°11′7″N 72°8′19″W﻿ / ﻿44.18528°N 72.13861°W﻿ / 44.18528; -72.13861
Area| 2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built| 1905 (1905)
Architectural style| Colonial Revival, Queen Anne
NRHP reference No.| 88001589[1]
Added to NRHP| September 27, 1988

The Lind Houses are a series of seven nearly identical houses on Pleasant Street in South Ryegate, Vermont. Built about 1905, they form one of the best-preserved examples of period worker housing in the state. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

## Description and history

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The Lind Houses are located on the south side of the village of South Ryegate, on the south side of Pleasant Street, a side street connecting Church Street with United States Route 302. The seven houses are all nearly identical free-standing 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structures, with front-facing gabled roofs and clapboarded exteriors. Each has a single-story hip-roof porch extending across the front, supported by bracketed Victorian turned posts, with square balusters. Their facades are three bays wide, with the main entrance in the left bay. A shedroof single-story ell extends to the rear of each house, which originally housed privies. The two houses at the eastern end of the row each have a small carriage barn attached to the rear of the ell.[2]

The houses were built about 1905 by George E. Lind, specifically to provide housing to immigrant workers in the area's granite-related businesses. Lind had come to the United States from Germany in the 1851, and was known for his support of the working and living conditions of immigrants. It is notable that these houses were more substantial than Lind's own modest house, which stood nearby. Lind died in 1909, and ownership of the houses was taken over by the owners of the South Ryegate Granite Works. They have since then gone through a succession of landlords, and were rehabilitated in the 1980s after a period of decline in the 1960s.[2]

## See also

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* National Register of Historic Places listings in Caledonia 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 Deborah Noble (1988). "NRHP nomination for Lind Houses". National Park Service. Retrieved December 27, 2016. with photos from 1988

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National Register of Historic Places in Caledonia County, Vermont

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* St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

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* Barnet Center Historic District
* Darling Estate Historic District
* Downtown Hardwick Village Historic District
* William and Agnes Gilkerson Farm
* Hardwick Street Historic District
* Maple Street–Clarks Avenue Historic District
* New Discovery State Park
* Peacham Corner Historic District
* Railroad Street Historic District
* Ricker Pond State Park
* St. Johnsbury Federal Fish Culture Station
* St. Johnsbury Historic District
* St. Johnsbury Main Street Historic District
* Stillwater State Park
* Thresher Mill
* West View Farm
* Wheelock Common Historic District

Buildings|

* Benoit Apartments
* Building at 143 Highland Avenue
* Burklyn Hall
* Caledonia No. 9 Grange Hall
* Christian Union Society Meetinghouse
* Cobb School
* Cote Apartment House
* Darling Inn
* J. R. Darling Store
* District 6 School House
* Elkins Tavern
* Fairbanks Museum
* Franklin Fairbanks House
* Alice Lord Goodine House
* Grouselands
* Lee Farm
* Lind Houses
* Lower Waterford Congregational Church
* Caleb H. Marshall House
* Mathewson Block
* McIndoes Academy
* Methodist Episcopal Church
* Morency Paint Shop and Apartment Building
* Riverside
* Shearer and Corser Double House
* Josiah and Lydia Shedd Farmstead
* Stannard Schoolhouse
* Phineas Thurston House
* Toll House
* Union Meeting House
* Whitehill House
* Whittier House

Structures|

* Bradley Covered Bridge
* Burrington Covered Bridge
* Centre Covered Bridge
* Chamberlin Mill Covered Bridge
* Greenbanks Hollow Covered Bridge
* Old Schoolhouse Bridge

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