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Stephen Mills, Times Argus
- Jan 3, 2019
- 3 min
Lights stay on at French Block
MONTPELIER — The past came back to life with a celebration to reopen the historic 1875 French Block on Main Street in the Capital City on Thursday. It was standing room only at a ceremony at City Hall marking the yearlong refit of the Federal-style building across the street, which has been converted into 18 affordable homes for low-income people and the homeless. The reopening of the French Block was a red-letter day for advocates of affordable housing, downtown revitalizati
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Stephen Mills, Times Argus
- May 2, 2018
- 3 min
French Block groundbreaking celebrated
MONTPELIER – Civic and nonprofit leaders celebrated the groundbreaking of an affordable housing project in the historic French Block on Main Street in the Capital City on Tuesday. Under sunny skies, there was an atmosphere of jubilation at the official lifting of a dark era for the upper two floors of the 1875 Italianate building that have remained vacant for more than 75 years. Dozens of people gathered in front of City Hall across the street from the French Block for a ce
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Stephen Mills, Times Argus
- Apr 19, 2018
- 4 min
After 75 years, French Block lights are back on
MONTPELIER — The windows of the dormant historic 1875 French Block on Main Street in the Capital City have been vacant for more than 75 years. Legend has it the building owner became upset at tenants who misbehaved, so he shuttered the upper floors of the three-story classic Federal-style building. In 1992, during the city’s biennial celebration, the late Margo George of the Montpelier Historical Society tried to breathe some life into the vacant windows of the building with
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