Vermont Building
- Architect
- Arthur Bowditch
- Year
- 1904
- Style
- Chicago School
- City
- Boston, MA
The Vermont Building at 10 Thacher Street was built in 1904 for Redfield Proctor, a U.S. Senator from Vermont and owner of the Vermont Marble Company, who financed the six-story brick-and-marble structure. Retail shops filled the ground floor while commercial, warehousing, and light manufacturing space above included facilities for the Marble Company itself. Designed by Arthur Bowditch and Edward Stratton in the Chicago School idiom, the building has since been converted into loft apartments.
the building
Marble Company works. Redfield Proctor built the tower to house his own Vermont Marble Company alongside other tenants, with the upper floors given over to warehousing and light manufacturing and the ground floor rented out for retail.
Brick and marble construction. The six-story building combines brick with marble facing — a fitting material choice for a structure financed by the owner of the Vermont Marble Company.
the style
The building's Chicago School style reflects its era, 1904, when that idiom was the standard vocabulary for functional commercial and loft buildings like this one.
More on Chicago Schoolsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, the building has been adapted into loft apartments after decades as a commercial and light-manufacturing home for the Vermont Marble Company.
nearby
- Old North Church & Campus
- Mariners House
- Paul Revere House
- St. Stephen's Church
- Pierce–Hichborn House
- Union Oyster House