Wilder Village Historic District


  • Vicinity: Portions of Norwich, Passumpsic, and Horseshoe Aves, Chestnut, Gillette, Fern, Hawthorn, Locust and Division Sts
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Historic District

Wilder is one of five villages in the Town of Hartford and is located on the banks of the Connecticut River in the northeast part of town. It is named for mill owner Charles Wilder who, along with his brother Herbert, owned Olcott Falls Company, a paper mill in the 1880s. When Charles died in 1897, he left the Town $12,000 to build a bridge over the Connecticut River providing the village name was changed from Olcott Falls to Wilder. At the Hartford Town Meeting of 1898, voters unanimously approved the name change. - Historic Tour No 4, Town of Hartford, Vermont


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1880/00/00 Mill Houses 350, 328, 339, 297, 275, 179 and 143 Passumpsic Ave 7 of 15 houses built by the Olcott Falls Company for its workers (350 and 328 were built in 1870).
1883/00/00 Sargent Tenements are built at 1808, 1796, 1780 and 1770 Hartford Ave.
1895/00/00 Emily Elizabeth Holman Architect Thomas P Goold House, 54 Norwich Ave, Built for Thomas and Sarah Goold. Mr Goold, a notable Wilder merchant, was the manager and treasurer of Goold and Co which operated a grocery store and a men's clothing store.
1899/00/00 Louis Sheldon Newton Architect Wilder Club and Library, 78 Norwich St, built 1899, designed by Hartford architect Louis Sheldon Newton in the Colonial Revival style.

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Particulars for Wilder Village Historic District:
Architectural Style American Colonial Revival
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Historic Use Library
Historic Use Multiple dwelling
Owner Private
Architectural Style Queen Anne
Historic Use Religious Property
Historic Use Restaurant
Historic Use School
Historic Use Secondary structure
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 22nd November 1999

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Wilder Village Historic District
Registry Address: Portions of Norwich, Passumpsic, and Horseshoe Aves., Chestnut, Gillette, Fern, Hawthorn, Locust and Division Sts.
Registry Number: 99001396
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private, Local
Architect: Newton, Louis Sheldon; Holman, Emily Elizabeth
Architectural Style: Queen anne, Colonial revival
Attribute: et al.
Area in Acres: 40
Contributing Buildings: 202
Non-Contributing Buildings: 79
Contributing Objects: 1
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local; State
Area of Significance: Architecture, Community Planning and Development
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Significant Year: 1880, 1883, 1887
Historic Function: Domestic, Education, Religion, Commerce, Trade
Historic Sub-Function: School, Religious structure, Single dwelling, Restaurant, Secondary structure, Library, Multiple dwelling
Current Function: Domestic, Education, Religion, Commerce, Trade
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling Multiple dwelling Secondary structure Specialty store School Library Religious structure

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