The c.1800 Noadiah Granger House isn’t your ordinary house museum. In the geographic center of the Castelton University campus, the Granger House is a living laboratory where university students will be able to do hands-on work designing and curating exhibitions,…
Built in 1892 by the founder of Kendall’s Spavin Cure, a successful horse liniment company, the Enosburg Opera House was gifted to the town and village and has been the cultural center of this farming community for well over a…
In the fall of 2020, the tall iron fence that separated the parking lot from the courtyard of the Bennington Museum was taken down. “We want to project a sense of welcoming and inclusivity,” says director Martin Mahoney. “Removing this…
There was a time around the turn of the 20th century when German immigrants built social halls and support systems all over the country. Burlington’s “Goethe Lodge #592” was constructed on a dead-end street in Burlington’s Old North End in…
“We used to do nothing but lend books,” says librarian Gail Trede, “Today we are an electronic world, and this place is always busy.” Located between an affordable housing community and the center of town, the Woods Library Building is…
The southeastern town of Vernon lost its economic engine with the closing of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in 2014. Ninety people lost jobs and the farming-turned-industrial-community needed to reinvent itself. When the Vermont Council on Rural Development did…
If you’ve driven Vermont Route 100 in Rochester, you may know this barn. It’s the five-story “cathedral of the countryside” seen at a distance south of town. Beth and Bob Kennett first learned of the place when they were on…
All across Vermont, church buildings stand empty or underutilized. At the same time, the need for affordable childcare is on the rise. In the Northeast Kingdom town of Peacham, residents have found a way to address both issues at once.…
If there is a secret ingredient to successfully completing a $17 million renovation project in the heart of a struggling downtown, it is this: belief. “Over the past decade, things in St. Johnsbury have changed, and more and more the…