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If you lived here... you’d be home now! Where excellence and convenience meet for exceptional retirement living! Bright and spacious apartments tailored to your highest standards! Call today for a tour. 188 Bonnet Street original structures. Bonnet Street has benefited immensely from the ways in which people modified some of the older homes and small home-businesses into retail shops and professional offices. “People don’t realize,” Badger says, “that once places like this are gone, they’re gone forever.” Proudly family owned, with family values e q u i n o x v i l l a g e . c o m | (802) 362-4061 49 Maple Street, Manchester Center, VT 05255 As soon as you see a lot of heavy bracketing under the eaves on a house, such as at 152 Bonnet Street (dating from the 1880s), you may say it has Italianate features. Next, look for the “modern” house at 188 Bonnet Street. Known as the Woodcock House, it dates to 1920. Its size, scale, and shape are unlike any other dwelling on the street, and it succeeds in adding that much more character to the neighborhood as a whole. The layered, low rooflines, exposed rafter ends, and the tapered fieldstone fireplace are typical bungalow elements. “I like it,” says Badger. “I like the colors they’ve given it, and see? There is some stained glass visible through the front door and leaded glass above the plate window in front. manchester life magazine 2019 109