Riverside is a historic estate at 30 Lily Pond Road in
Lyndon, Vermont
Lyndon is a town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,491. Lyndon is the home of Lyndon State College. The town contains one incorporated village, Lyndonville, and four unincorporated village ...
. Built in 1866 for the owner of a local lumber mill, it is a well-preserved example of Italianate architecture, including significant elements on the main house and the surviving outbuildings. The estate, now home to a private elementary day school, was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1993.
Description and history
The Riverside estate is located south of downtown Lyndon, on the east side of Lily Pond Road at its junction with Red Village Road. The estate now covers about , most of which is on the east side of Lily Pond and Red Village Roads; a small portion is on the west side of Red Village Road. The property includes three buildings: the main house, a barn, and a granary. All were built between 1866 and about 1880, and exhibit Italianate styling. The house is stories in height, with a hip roof topped by an elaborate square
belvidere. A porch wraps around two sides of the main block, supported by chamfered square posts with brackets at their tops, and with spindled balustrades. Its interior retains original period decorative elements. A -story gabled ell extends to the right side. East of the house stands a c. 1866 barn, whose Italianate features include a small square cupola, and a smaller c. 1880 granary, which has an octagonal cupola and bracketed eaves.
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Riverside was built in 1866 for Dudley P. Hall, one of the principal owners of a lumber mill located just south of the property, on the banks of the
Passumpsic River
The Passumpsic River () is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Connecticut River, in Vermont. Though primarily a Caledonia County river, it i ...
. It was designed by George Ropes Jr., an architect from
Boston, Massachusetts, and stood next to the home of his business partner, B.F. Lincoln (now adapted for use as a nursing home). Members of the Hall family owned the property until 1977, and it has served since then as the private Riverside School,
[ serving grades four through eight.
]
See also
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Caledonia County, Vermont
References
External links
The Riverside School web site
{{NRHP in Caledonia County, Vermont
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
Italianate architecture in Vermont
Houses completed in 1866
Houses in Caledonia County, Vermont
Buildings and structures in Lyndon, Vermont
National Register of Historic Places in Caledonia County, Vermont