Wheelock Law Office

United States historic place

Wheelock Law Office

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Wheelock Law Office was home to the "Barre Partnership" from 2019 to 2023[2][3]

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Location| 135 N. Main St., Barre, Vermont
Coordinates| 44°11′53″N 72°30′13″W﻿ / ﻿44.19806°N 72.50361°W﻿ / 44.19806; -72.50361
Area| 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built| 1871 (1871)
Architectural style| Second Empire
NRHP reference No.| 75000148[1]
Added to NRHP| June 18, 1975

The Wheelock Law Office is a historic commercial building at 135 North Main Street in the city of Barre, Vermont. Built in 1871 for a prominent local lawyer, it is a fine example of Second Empire architecture, and a rare surviving domestically scaled building in an area now primarily filled with larger commercial buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

## Description and history

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The Wheelock Law Office building stands in the central business district of Barre, on the north side of North Main Street between Keith Avenue and Pearl Street. It is sandwiched on a narrow lot between a 20th-century single-story commercial block and a three-story late 19th-century commercial building. It is a 1-1/2 story brick building, with a bell cast mansard roof providing a full second story. The right side of the front consists of a 2-1/2 story tower, with the building entrance at the base in a round-arch opening. A round-arch window is set above it in the second story, and the tower is capped by a bell cast roof with oculus window dormers. The left side of the front has a large display window on the first floor, and gabled dormers flanking an oculus window dormer in the steep portion of the mansard. A modern single-story addition projects to the rear. The interior of the building retains no historic elements, having been repeatedly remodeled for varying commercial uses.[4]

The building was erected in 1871 for Langdon Wheelock, then one of the city's leading attorneys. The area was at the time a tree-lined residential street, with Wheelock's house, a Federal period brick building demolished in 1946, located next door. Since Wheelock's death in 1873, the building has seen a variety of commercial uses, including as a bank and a senior center. It is a rare reminder of the once-domestic scale of the surrounding streetscape.[4]

The Granite Savings Bank and Trust Company was located in the building for over fifty years, starting in April 1885.[5] In 1920 the building was renovated.[5]

The building was later owned by the City of Barre.[6] In 2019 the building became home to a welcome center operated by the Barre Partnership.[3] The Barre Partnership is Barre's officially designated community revitalization community organization.[7]

The city sold the building in 2023 to a restaurant and community store, which promised to preserve the historic nature of the building.[2]

## See also

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* Charles Marsh Law Office: NRHP listing in Woodstock (village), Vermont
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington 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 Petenko, Erin (12 April 2023). "Fox Market wins battle for historic Barre building". Washington County: VT Digger. p. Vermont. Archived from the original on 7 June 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
3. ^ a b Delcore, David (17 July 2019). "Council to team up with Partnership on Wheelock Building 'welcome center'". Times Argus. Archived from the original on 16 October 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
4. ^ a b Courtney Fisher (1975). "NRHP nomination for Wheelock Law Office". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-11-26. with photos from 1975
5. ^ a b "Fifty Years of the Granite Savings Bank and Trust Company". The Barre Daily Times. 13 April 1935. p. 3. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
6. ^ Delcore2, David (30 October 2019). "Council backs teen center". Times Argus. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2021. "an iconic city-owned building"`{{cite news}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
7. ^ "About Us". Barre Partnership. Retrieved 16 October 2021.

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National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Vermont

National
Historic
Landmark|

* Socialist Labor Party Hall
* Vermont State House

Districts|

* Barre Downtown Historic District
* Beck and Beck Granite Shed
* Currier Park Historic District
* East Calais Historic District
* Goddard College Greatwood Campus
* Kents Corner Historic District
* Mad River Glen Ski Area Historic District ‡
* Mad River Valley Rural Historic District
* McLaughlin Farm
* Mill Village Historic District
* Montpelier Historic District
* North Calais Village Historic District
* Plainfield Village Historic District
* Roxbury Fish Hatchery
* Vermont State Hospital Historic District
* Waitsfield Common Historic District
* Waitsfield Village Historic District
* Warren Village Historic District
* Waterbury Village Historic District

Buildings|

* Aldrich Public Library
* Allenwood Farm
* Athenwood and the Thomas W. Wood Studio
* Barre City Hall and Opera House
* Central Vermont Railway Depot
* Colby Mansion
* College Hall
* Parley Davis House
* East Village Meetinghouse
* Gale-Bancroft House
* Green Mountain Seminary
* Italian Baptist Church
* Jones Brothers Granite Shed
* Jones–Pestle Farmstead
* Joslin Farm
* Lareau Farmstead
* Chauncey B. Leonard House
* Martin Covered Bridge
* Mayo Building
* National Clothespin Factory
* Nichols House
* Old Red Mill
* Old West Church
* Reynolds House
* Scampini Block
* E. L. Smith Roundhouse Granite Shed
* Joshua Twing Gristmill
* Union Co-operative Store Bakery
* Union Meetinghouse
* Waterbury Center Methodist Church
* Wheelock Law Office
* Theodore Wood House
* Woodbury Graded School
* Woodbury Town Hall
* Worcester Town Hall
* Worcester Village School

Structures|

* Bridge 31
* Bridge No. 27
* Center Road Culvert
* Coburn Covered Bridge
* Great Eddy Covered Bridge
* Lower Cox Brook Covered Bridge
* Middlesex–Winooski River Bridge
* Northfield Falls Covered Bridge
* Pine Brook Covered Bridge
* Slaughter House Covered Bridge
* Stony Brook Covered Bridge
* Upper Cox Brook Covered Bridge
* Warren Covered Bridge

Footnotes|

‡ This historic property also has portions in an adjacent county.

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