The Roswell Butler House was added to the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 2001 (#01001226). It is a brick building with a stone foundation located on Carmichael St within the Essex Town Center development., Essex, Vermont

Essex, Vermont

Essex is a town in Chittenden County, Vermont, United States. The population was 19,587 at the 2010 census.By population, Essex is the largest town in Vermont, and the second-largest municipality .-Government:...

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History

• Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering -- Underground Railroad
  Underground Railroad
  The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists,...
  
  

• Architectural Style: Federal architecture
  Federal architecture
  Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the United States between c. 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815. This style shares its name with its era, the Federal Period. The name Federal style is also used in association with furniture design...
  
  

• Area of Significance: Architecture

• Period of Significance: 1800-1824, 1825–1849, 1850–1874, 1875–1899, 1900–1924, 1925–1949

• Owner: Private

• Historic Function: Domestic

• Historic Sub-function: Single dwelling

• Current Function: Commerce/ Trade

• Current Sub-function: Vacant/ For Sale

It is also known as the 1820 Coffee House and the Kilmoyer House on the Essex Vermont town list of historic sites.

The house was a rest stop on the underground railroad.