Lewis Grout House

Lewis Grout House
Location Western Ave. at Bonnyvale Rd., Brattleboro, Vermont
Coordinates 42°51′13″N 72°36′6″W / 42.85361°N 72.60167°W / 42.85361; -72.60167Coordinates: 42°51′13″N 72°36′6″W / 42.85361°N 72.60167°W / 42.85361; -72.60167
Area 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built 1880 (1880)
Architectural style Gothic Revival
NRHP Reference # 96001328[1]
Added to NRHP November 7, 1996

The Lewis Grout House is a historic house on Western Avenue at Bonnyvale Road in West Brattleboro, Vermont. Built in about 1880 for a widely-traveled minister, it is a well-preserved and somewhat late example of Gothic Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.[1]

Description and history

The Grout House stands at the northwest corner of Bonnyvale Road and Western Avenue (Vermont Route 9), on a generous lot in the village of West Brattleboro. It is a 1-3/4 story wood frame structure, with a steeply pitched cross-gable roof that shelters a full second floor and a smaller attic. The front facade, facing Western Avenue, is five bays wide on the ground floor, three on the second, and one on the third. A single-story porch extends across the center three bays, supported by cruciform posts, and sporting stickwork balustrades at the ground floor and around the roof. Windows on the upper levels have elongated pyramidal hood decorations, roughly matching in angle the roof pitch. There is Stick style decorate woodwork at the gable peaks.[2]

The house was built about 1880 for Rev. Lewis Grout, a missionary Congregationalist priest who spent time in South Africa. The house's architecture appears to be influenced to some degree by British colonial architecture of that period, and is extremely unusual in Vermont, where there are only a limited number of Gothic Revival houses to be found.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Lewis Grout House" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-12-02.


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