Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object |
Negative, Glass plate |
Photographer |
Watson, Madison Ellsworth |
Year Range from |
1892 |
Year Range to |
1899 |
Location |
Vermont, North Bennington, Water Street |
Description |
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church on Water Street, North Bennington, Vermont. Wood frame building with tall Gothic style windows, belltower near front, four columns across front porch of church. Grass overgrown in front of and beside church, leafy trees. Stone walls and trolley tracks in forergound. |
Information |
The Roman Catholic church in North Bennington was dedicated to St. John the Baptist in 1872. The building on Water Street was originally built as a Universalist Church in 1836. The Universalists used it until 1849, at which time it was fitted up as an academy. The building continued to be used as a school until 1870, when North Bennington built a graded school. The building was a Catholic church until 1929 when the congregation moved to their new building on Houghton Street. This building was used for storage until it burned in 1936. |
Related People |
Watson, Madison Ellsworth |
Credit line |
Weichert-Isselhardt Collection, Gift of Tordis Ilg Isselhardt |
Catalog Number |
2015.35.242 |