The house at 22-24 Blodgett St once occupied a very different address. See if you can find it on the 1877 bird's eye view map of Burlington:
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| Look toward the bottom center of the map... |
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| A closeup view |
Local lore tells that this prefabricated house arrived in Burlington by accident in 1874; it was intended for Buffalo, NY. Rather than send it on or back to its source, local bureaucrats consulted with War Department engineers and decided to install the house on the Burlington Breakwater, for occupancy by the lightkeepers of Burlington Harbor. For reasons uknown but perhaps imaginable, the house was never occupied. It was sold at auction in 1884 and moved to its present location in Burlington's Old North End.
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