Preservation Burlington 2011 Homes Tour
June 4, 2011

The One of a Kind Bed and Breakfast has the spectacular views familiar to the residents of Lakeview Terrace.

This area west of North Avenue was a market garden until the city started its development in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Lakeview Terrace was originally called Bissell Street, after the Episcopal Bishop of Vermont. It became Lakeview Terrace in 1920.

53 Lakeview Terrace was originally 49 Bissell Street. In the deed dated 14 January 1909, John A. Gibson, listed in the city directory as a chef at the Van Ness Hotel, is selling to Catherine McCarthy. He agrees to finish the house so that it will be "in tenantable condition" by February 1, 1909.

Catherine sold to John Moran, a machinist, and his wife Lena in May of 1917. They lived there until July of 1931, when they sold to Harold D. and Mary S. Ryan. As time went on and more people realized the treasure of the lake views, the street has become an ever more desirable place to live. The gardens and surroundings of this B & B surely illustrate this.

Nonstop From Washington: Burlington, Vermont
September 16, 2010; Washingtonian.com

by Eliot Stein

"For spectacular lake views, book the second-floor suite in Maggie Sherman’s 1910 house, One of a Kind Bed and Breakfast. Continental breakfast includes local cheeses and jams and fresh-baked scones and croissants, while the inn’s garden—complete with a tree swing—practically spills into the lake."

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Vermont Magazine
March-April 2010; www.vermontmagazine.com

By Kathleen James
Photos by Carolyn L. Bates

In 2000, artist Maggie Sherman moved from her longtime home in Montgomery to a condo in Burlington's Old North End. "I thought I would never own a home again," says Sherman. "And I had no intention of buying this house. There was no way in the world that I could afford it. But I just got this bug in my ear. I said 'OK, I'll take it.' Then I said, 'Now what am I going to do?'"

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Best of Burlington
Summer 2008

Not a chain hotel kind of person? There is an alternative.

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Around the Neighborhood...

Home, Sweeter Home: How Lakeview changed my life: a tale of real estate redemption
March 10,2010; Seven Days

By Paula Routly

I wasn’t looking for a new house. I thought I was perfectly happy in the 800-square-foot “single-family” home I’d occupied for 20 years in Burlington’s Old North End. Working upwards of 60 hours a week for 15 years, I couldn’t realistically maintain much more than a flophouse.

And this one was truly “affordable.” I purchased it in 1992 for $82,000, and the mortgage payments were small and short-lived. That made it easy to overlook the European-sized kitchen appliances and the absence of doors, sunlight and a guest room. All the utilities combined cost me less than 300 bucks a month.

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Lakeview Terrace at Mardi Gras
February 27, 2008; Stuck in Vermont

Lakeview Terrace is the only neighborhood float to participate in Magic Hat's Mardi Gras parade. So what makes them so special? This year we talked to the funky Lakeview Terrace neighbors...

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