4.2 Neighborhood Walk: Visual Survey of Architectural Styles

Background for the Educator: After spending some time learning about the different styles, head out to the streets with students to see what different styles of buildings you might find! In the King Street and Pearl Street area, there are few Federal style buildings remaining (the earliest areas of Burlington settled).

In the North End, you will find more often more vernacular, smaller, simpler forms of these architectural styles. In the South End, there are more high-style versions of these styles, reflecting the wealth of people in that area of Burlington. Downtown, you will find a mixture of business block buildings from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s. Walking through Burlington’s neighborhoods, you are most likely to find Queen Anne, Craftsman, and Colonial Revival style buildings, with Greek Revival, Italianate, and Second Empire styles sprinkled in.