South Willard Street, Burlington, VT. The sunset over Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks reflecting in the windows of this house.
Wouldn’t it be lovely to sit in the cupola and watch the sun set over Lake Champlain? What a beauty. South Willard Street has some of the most beautiful houses in Burlington.
Preservation in Pink 
Do you know that cupolas, bellevederes, observatories were also used to vent the heat in the summer? As in ‘hot air rises’, before we could manufacture screening.
This is not just theory. We used the Park-McCullough House observatory to cool the House when I was a docent – with great success.
Yes, great lesson, Jane. Houses were built with such great natural ventilation. If only we still built houses like that. A cross breeze can make all the difference.
The houses in that area are so beautiful! I seriously looked at Champlain College just because their on-campus housing was all Victorian manors.
Champlain College is gorgeous! They seem to do an excellent job with their buildings. I hope the interiors are as nice as the exteriors.
As I recall, they looked great to my untrained eye.