[Ronald]

Vermontx55: Burlington & Montpelier

In June, I toured through the Northeastern US (NJ-PA-NY-VT-NH-MA-CT-NY) for 3 days, here are a couple of pics I took of two of Vermont's larger cities. I would have loved to continue onto Montreal, as it's only a little bit further north from Burlington, but I had to make my way south to reach JFK in time 2 days later, for my flight back to Europe. Ah well, another time.

In general, I found that the two cities were well-preserved. Of course, the state hasn't seen any astonishing growth recently, so what was already there was well-looked after.
Starting off with Burlington, on "New England's West Coast" (Lake Camplain). It kind of felt like San Fran meets New England.

I loved all the old houses.

Approaching the City Center.

Now for some views from the roof of a local parking garage.

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I got some delicious crepes at this street.

Can you say Quebec?

Friendly sidewalk.

Montpelier, the state capitol. Remarkably, the city's name deviates from it's French counterpart, Montpellier.

Beats your average sunbelt state Jiffy Lube station.

I've seen this type of building along a creek more often in the UK, Germany and Belgium. Also more common in Ontario I believe.

Hope you enjoyed Vermont!

 

[ShonTron]

There last year. I loved Burlington, but it was raining , so no decent pics. Montpelier is the smallest capital city and has a great setting for the state capitol - just a forest behind. Great stuff.

 

[bAuHaUs]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, these are great pics. Btw did you go by North Conway NH cause I'd love to see some of those photos.

 

[Hipster Duck]

I've seen this type of building along a creek more often in the UK, Germany and Belgium. Also more common in Ontario I believe

I don't know too many examples of buildings like that in Ontario - certainly not at that scale. Elora has a few along the Grand river, and so does Perth (in Eastern Ontario). There could be others that I don't know about.

 

[ShonTron]

Paris, ON definitely has buildings like this. I would also expect to see it in some far-Eastern Ontario towns as well. Lindsay has a small one like that.

Interestingly, the Vermont State Capitol in Montpelier is actually bigger in size than the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix, built at a time when that state had 1/30th the population that it does now!

HD, you know the Arizona vacated the state capitol for a museum, building senate, house, and executive buildings around it. In Springfield, IL, you can visit both the current and former capitol buildings, I also visited the former Missouri and Iowa capitols (and capitals) on the same trip.

 

[Ronald]

^there's a few in Ontario along the Grand River (not that far from Toronto actually), Paris is the best-known of them. Here's two other ones:

Cambridge

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Elora

The're more common in Europe. One of the better examples:

Monschau, Germany

 

[Long Island Mike]

Burlington and Montpellier,Vermont-interesting places...

Ronald: Interesting pics of Burlington - Population: 38,358
and Montpellier - Population 7954 - Source: World Almanac 2006
Montpellier is indeed the smallest-population State Capital.

They are both interesting places that I would not mind visiting - New England cities tend to be neat places as many of us know.

I have passed thru Montpellier but I have never been in Burlington -
The closest I have been to that area is the Plattsburgh-Clinton County,NY
side of Lake Champlain.

I like the pics of that river valley with its close-by buildings in Montpellier and I noticed the 60s classic Mercury Comet parked next to that Gulf gas station.

I do agree that Vermont is a good place to visit anytime and as a license plate collector I never get tired of those green Vermont plates!

LI MIKE