TEACHOUT'S LAKEHOUSE & WHARF
at
Larrabee's Point on Lake Champlain
Closed 9/20/2006 Sales Price $375,000
Hudson River, transporting raw materials and finished products, linking the
farmers and merchants of the Champlain Valley with the rest of the world.
This property is one of the original warehouses for the Lake Champlain canal trade.
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Large wharf on the deepest private water port (8' depth) south of the Champlain Bridge
Main floor shop (which is no longer open)
Stone walls taper up from 2' wide at the base
2nd floor living quarters
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The home is charming and comfortable with wainscoting and exposed beams
detail of the old warehouse wheel hoist
2 story kitchen with the original wheel for the warehouse exposed
Shelburne Museum diorama of Teachout's in the steamboat era
This detail from an engraving titled
"United States Hotel, Larrabee's Point, Vermont"
shows the United States Hotel on the left and two commercial buildings on
the right.
Sailboats, canoes and a steamboat traverse the Lake.
Josiah Goodhue, History of Shoreham
National Register of Historic Places
Addison County, Vermont
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The Lake Champlain trading pattern shifted dramatically with the opening of the Champlain Canal at Whitehall, New York in 1823. The preferred northern Champlain-Richelieu trading route was immediately supplanted by the faster, cheaper southern route from the Champlain Valley to the Hudson Valley and New York City. In his history of Lake Champlain's sailing canal boats, Arthur B. Cohn states that 20% more commercial vessels appeared on the Lake in the years after the Canal opened, making the 1820s and 30s "boom years" for merchants in the Champlain Valley. The tide of new settlement west of the Hudson Valley provided new markets, which became even more easily accessible when the Erie Canal opened in 1825.