Dr. John Pomeroy House (1798) – gable window detail
164 Battery Street, Burlington, Vermont USA • Pomeroy was a doctor whose began accepting apprentices to help with a growing shortage of physicians, and effort that soon evolved onto the Medical College of The University of Vermont.∞ Harold Holloway purchased the property in 1950. Holloway, a resourceful black man who came to Burlington from Massachusetts in the early 1940s. … Not afraid of hard work, he catered to local fisherman, digging worms, catching minnows and renting boats. In order to provide chlorine and fluoride-free water for the live bait he sold to sportsmen, he sank a 411-foot deep well in his backyard.
☞ The Pomeroy House, as a part of the Battery Street Historic District, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (#77000098), since November 2, 1977.
• More Info: GeoHack: 44°28′29″N 73°13′5″W.
☞ For some dates & historical details, I am indebted to the Chittenden County Historical Society, and their fine, three volume set: Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods: Vol. I, 1991; Vol. II, 1997;Vol. III, 2003. David J. Blow, author; Lillian Baker Carlisle, Editor; Sarah L. Dopp, photographs.
Dr. John Pomeroy House (1798) – gable window detail
164 Battery Street, Burlington, Vermont USA • Pomeroy was a doctor whose began accepting apprentices to help with a growing shortage of physicians, and effort that soon evolved onto the Medical College of The University of Vermont.∞ Harold Holloway purchased the property in 1950. Holloway, a resourceful black man who came to Burlington from Massachusetts in the early 1940s. … Not afraid of hard work, he catered to local fisherman, digging worms, catching minnows and renting boats. In order to provide chlorine and fluoride-free water for the live bait he sold to sportsmen, he sank a 411-foot deep well in his backyard.
☞ The Pomeroy House, as a part of the Battery Street Historic District, has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (#77000098), since November 2, 1977.
• More Info: GeoHack: 44°28′29″N 73°13′5″W.
☞ For some dates & historical details, I am indebted to the Chittenden County Historical Society, and their fine, three volume set: Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods: Vol. I, 1991; Vol. II, 1997;Vol. III, 2003. David J. Blow, author; Lillian Baker Carlisle, Editor; Sarah L. Dopp, photographs.