Preservationist Eliot Lothrop on the Monitor Barn

Past event
Oct 20, 2024, 2 to 4 PM

Don't miss Eliot Lothrop's talk "Moses Whitcomb's 'Monitor Barn' and Other Iconic Structures Built by Charles Miller," on Sunday, October 20, 2pm, at the Brownell Library, Essex Junction. The talk is hosted by the Chittenden County Historical Society. Eliot is President, Building Heritage, LLC. Historic Building Preservation & Timber Framing, Huntington, VT, www.buildingheritage.com He received a CCHS Research Grant to help underwrite this research in 2023.

SPECIAL OFFER: The first 25 people to come to the CCHS Annual Meeting & Special Presentation by Eliot Lothrop will receive a FREE 3-volume set of CCHS' Historic Guide to Burlington Neighborhoods OR a FREE copy of the Scrapbook Memoir of Lilian Baker Carlisle: Vermont Historian, "Burlington Treasure" by Joanna Tebbs Young.

Not a CCHS member? Sign up for a New Membership at the Presentation & Receive either the Set or the Biography.

Refreshments will be served.

Free and open to the public.

Park on the side (rear) of the Main Entrance. Please enter through the parking lot door. The library and the Main Entrance are closed on Sunday.

Following a short CCHS annual meeting, Eliot will talk about Moses Whitcomb who had the East Monitor Barn built in 1901, hiring 36-year-old Charles Miller from North Ferrisburgh to frame it. Born into a family of timber framers, Miller had already built several monumental barns around Chittenden and Addison County. Eliot will look at several of Miller's other barns and explore pages of his work journals, which have opened up some fascinating connections.

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Brownell Library, 6 Lincoln Street, Essex Junction

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