a stroll down memory lane
a stroll down memory lane
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The best you can say of the style is that the houses on Main Street are generally eclectic . Most have a generous setback from the street , which is not typical of many old New England towns .
Yet , on house after house , a trained eye will spot isolated elements that suggest a little of everything – Federal , Greek revival , Colonial Revival , and any one of the many styles historians call “ Victorian .” Look for sidelights on doorways , fan windows below the gables , wide porticos , narrow pilasters on the corners of the facades , bits of bargeboard trim , and try to overlook some of the later alterations , such as porches , columns , and railings that seem to be just a little mismatched for the size and scale of the houses , and windows that are too large to have been original . Most have a generous setback from the street , which is not typical of many old New England towns .
Continue along the street until the marble sidewalk ends and stop here .
The residence called Bunrannoch , also known as Sunshine Cottage , at 3340 Main Street is a good example of how houses grow whether or not it makes sense architecturally speaking – this one was originally three separate parts , the earliest section from the1840s . It was massed into one residence in the 1920s . In the distance , past the next residence on the left , there is a lane that leads to the Ekwanok Country Club , a golf course which opened in 1899 ( access by members only ). During the resort ’ s heyday , The New York Times regularly kept abreast of the tournaments played there and it still ranks as one of the “ best places to play ” in Vermont according to Golf Digest .
Watch for traffic and cross the street . Turn northwards back towards the start and continue walking on the marble sidewalk .
Old photographs and vintage postcards show that pedestrians on the street seem to have always enjoyed strolling in the shade of large deciduous trees . Dr . William Gould , a Yale grad who practiced in Manchester in the 1770s and ‘ 80s , planted the first elm trees on Main Street . Those succumbed to the dreaded Dutch Elm disease , while the maple trees thrived . Some are now a century old . The landscaping that is seen from the street nowadays along Main Street is likely not at all typical of what was there in past centuries . There may have been more elaborate formal plantings between the porches and the sidewalks , with professional gardeners hired to tend to them during the resort ’ s high season . Some of the properties on the street had
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