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HISTORIC
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TYPE
Historic Stone Warehouse
APPROX.SQ.FT. 3,000
LOT
SIZE .4
acre
STREET
4820 Route 74 West TOWN
Shoreham
BEDROOMS
3 BATHS
1.5
TAXES:
$4,171 2005-2006
DIRECTIONS From
Shoreham Village take Rt. 74 west (approx. 4.8 miles) toward the ferry.
House on right.
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Rooms
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Size
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1
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2
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Rooms
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Size
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1
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2
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Living
Room
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15x12
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x
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Baths
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1,
1/2
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1
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Dining
Room
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10x12
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x
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Bedroom
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22x12
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x
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Kitchen
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9x8
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Bedroom
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13x8
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x
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Former
Store
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26x30
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Bedroom
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11x8
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x
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Other
Room
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14x14
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HOUSE COLOR gray
stone CONSTRUCTION stone AGE
1823
STORIES 3 #
RMS 8
ROOF slate
SIDING
stone FIREPLACES on 1st
floor WOODSTOVE
in living room
HOT WATER domestic or propane
HEAT(type) wood/coal/oil
hot water
ELECTRIC CO. CVPS
FLOORS(kind)
hardwood, carpet, vinyl WALLS
sheetrock DECK
back
PERSONAL PROPERTY INCLUDED
gas range, frig, washer, dryer NEGOTIABLE
furnishings EXCLUDED tour boat WATER(type)
Tri-town SEWER/SEPTIC
septic
BASEMENT(size)
full (walls)
stone OUTBUILDING
pavilion on dock
ZONING
LDR ROAD
& LAKE FRONTAGE approx. 150’ POSSESSION
at closing
REMARKS Unique
opportunity to own a part of history. This old warehouse was built in 1823,
during the heyday of shipping on
Lake Champlain
. Recently it has been a home and store. The potential is there for use as a
gallery, antique shop, mail order business – or wherever your imagination
leads. The home is charming and comfortable with wainscoting, exposed beams,
and a 2 story kitchen with the original wheel for the warehouse exposed. The
only private deep water port south of the Champlain
Bridge
with a large wharf and pavilion, which is currently used for the owners’
tour boat business, the Carillon. Seller prefers to have use of dock until November
1, 2006.
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During
the heyday of the Champlain Canal, between 1823 and the early twentieth
century, thousands of canal boats passed between Lake Champlain and
the
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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Click
here for history of property |
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The
Shoreham ferry runs from just south of this dock to Ticonderoga, NY
click here for information |
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Large wharf on the deepest private water
port (8' depth)
south of the Champlain Bridge |
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Main floor shop (which is no longer open) |
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Stone walls taper up from
2' wide at the base |
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2nd floor living quarters |
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The
home is charming and comfortable with wainscoting and exposed beams |
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| post and beam
detail |
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detail of the old warehouse wheel
hoist |
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2
story kitchen with the original wheel for the warehouse exposed |
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Shelburne Museum diorama of
Teachout's in the steamboat era |
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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 |
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National Register of Historic Places
Addison County, Vermont
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Larrabee's Point Complex **
(added 1980 - Building - #80000423)
SW of Shoreham, Shoreham |
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| Historic
Significance: |
Architecture/Engineering,
Event |
| Architectural
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Greek Revival |
| Area of
Significance: |
Economics, Transportation,
Architecture, Commerce |
| Period of
Significance: |
1800-1824, 1825-1849 |
| Owner: |
Private |
| Historic
Function: |
Commerce/Trade, Domestic,
Transportation |
| Historic
Sub-function: |
Business, Single Dwelling,
Warehouse, Water-Related |
| Current
Function: |
Domestic, Transportation |
| Current
Sub-function: |
Single Dwelling,
Water-Related |
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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. |
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