COMPLETE 2004

Enosburg, VT

After a devastating fire destroyed most of a village block in downtown Enosburg, Housing VT (now called Evernorth) committed to replacing the building with a new one composed of ground floor commercial space and two floors of apartments (22 one- and two-bedroom units total) above, with underground parking.  The steel and concrete building utilized panelized metal-framed walls with a  solid foam-filled cavity.  The brick veneer complements other vintage village buildings, including its across the street neighbor which was renovated to serve the Merchants Bank on the first floor and apartments above, in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards.  For many years, the village celebrated dairy days, including a parade and game of “cow-plop bingo”, whereby the street in front of this building was gridded with chalk into a larger than life bingo card.  A local dairy cow would be led around the street, and whichever number it “plopped” on, the lucky person who had picked that number won the monetary prize!  The layered circular medallions at the roofline are meant to be stylized versions of those cow plops.