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The Southview Housing Historic District encompasses a collection of World War II-era residences on Stanley Road in Springfield, Vermont. They were built in 1942 to provided housing for workers producing militarily important materials, and have survived with remarkably little alteration since then.
Shelburne, Vermont: 1782 Moved to grounds of Shelburne Museum from Cavendish, Vermont. Hyde Log Cabin: Grand Isle, Vermont: 1783 One of the oldest log cabins in U.S. Gov. Jonas Galusha Homestead: Shaftsbury Center, Vermont: 1783 well-preserved example of Federal period architecture Eureka Schoolhouse: Springfield, Vermont: 1785 Oldest ...
The landscape today is that of an agricultural and post-agricultural area, with some of its historic farms still operating, but with many abandoned fields that are reverting to mixed forest. These fields are typically divided by stone walls created in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when the land was first cleared for cultivation.
The Springfield Downtown Historic District encompasses the historic central business district of the town of Springfield, Vermont.Located in a narrow valley on the banks of the Black River, the town's architecture is primarily reflective of its importance as a manufacturing center in the late 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries, with a cluster of commercial buildings surrounded by residential ...
North Springfield is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the town of Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. [3] As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 573. [4] It lies at an altitude of 495 feet (151 m). [5] A post office has been operated in North Springfield since 1832. [6]
Although Springfield's alluvial flats made it among the best agricultural towns in the state, the Black River falls, which drop 110 feet (34 m) in 1 ⁄ 8 of a mile (200 m), helped it develop into a mill town. [5] Springfield was located in the center of the Precision Valley region, home of the Vermont machine tool industry.
The Hartness House is located on the northeastern outskirts of central Springfield, at the northern end of Orchard Street. The original main portion of the house is a T-shaped 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story gable-roofed wood-frame structure, its main facade facing to the south. The facade is busy with a variety of projections and cross gables of various ...
Springfield is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the main settlement within the town of Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population of the CDP was 3,979 at the 2010 census , [ 3 ] compared with 9,373 for the town as a whole.