STATE • oriti 1 »10-30 Jo UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INFERIOR 7/72) yerrnont- COUNTY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Addison PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY

ENTRY NUMBER DATE (Type alt entries - attach to or enclose with photograph)

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COMMON: Emma Willard House AND/OR HISTORIC: Emma Willard House 2. LOCATION - ' • • •• • • • .. I .• ' Ill 1 ' III 1 u STREET AND NUMBER: 131 South Main Street (Vermont Route 30) CITY OR TOWN: Of Middleburv 1- STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE i/i Vermont 050 Addison 001 [3. PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREOIT: POLLY M. Rettig. Landmark Review Project DATE OF PHOTO: SPNTPMHER, 1^74 NEGATIVE FILED AT: Historic Sites Survey ^ 100 T flfrfiPt- MM, Washington. O C. ?0?A0 (4. IDENTIFICATION :., :... DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. view from the southwest showing front and side elevations of main block and w : ng

STATE Form No. 10-301 o UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (7/72) Vermont COUNTY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Add ison PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER i/> (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) 2 I.'NAME

COMMON: Millarrf House AND/OR HISTORIC: y-m^a Wi llard House I- 2- LOCATION (J STREET AND NUMBER: 131 South Main Street (vermont Route 30) CITY OR TOWN: 0£ Middlebury 1- STATE: CODE COUN TV: CODE «/» Vermont 050 Addison 001 fr.' PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREOIT: Polly M. Rettig, Landmark Review Project DATE OF PHOTO: September, 1974 NEGATIVE FILED AT: Historic Sites Survey üpO L Street NW. Washington, P.C., 20240 (4. IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. exterior view from the northeast showing rear of main block and ell THEME: Education A/H

NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARKS STATE: Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Rov. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ; Vermont COUNTY: ) NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACE'S Addison INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (HATIOm HISTORIC ENTR Y OA TE LANDMARKS ) (Type all entries complete applicable sections) ItON^iw^ C OMMON : Emma Willard House AND/OR HISTORIC: Emma Willard House |2. LOCATION" STREET ANO NUMBER: 131 South Main Street (Vermont Route 30) CITY OR TOWN: CONGRESSIONAL. DISTRICT: Middlebury at large . • COUNTY:

Vermont 050 Addison ÛÛL. 3. CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY ACCESSIBLE M OWNERSHIP STATUS (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC

• District gj Building • Public Public Acquisition: Occupied. Yes: • Site Q Structure Private |~~| In Process n Unoccupied IS Restricted f~| Unrestricted • Object • Both I I Being Considered • Preservation work in progress • No

u PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate)

=> [~1 Agricultural • Government • Pork l~~l Transportation I I Comments oc [•Commercial • Industrial I I Private Residence • Other (Specify)

-t- S Educational • Military I I . Religious tn I I Entertainment • Museum I I Scientific {4. OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: President and Fellows of n<> (contact: James D, Ross^ Business Manager) H m Ui STREET AND NUMBER: O ULI 3 V» CITY OR TOWN: STATE: Middlebury 05753 Vermont 05JQ_ LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Town clerk's Office (Middlebury Land > a Records, Volume 56, Page 416") a. STREET AND NUMBER: H- oCO 3 CITY OR TOWN: STATE Middlebury Vermont 050

fr- ^JPRilENTATtON IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: .none. DATE OF SURVEY: • - Federo I • State • County; • Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS:

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CITY OR TOWN: STATE: »7. DESCRIPTION

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03 Excellent • Good • Fair • Deteriorated • Ruins • Unexposed CONDITION V (Check One) (Check One) Q Altered 03 Unaltered • Moved Origino! Site

DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (it known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

The Emma Willard House, constructed in 1809 for Dr John Willard, is located on the southeast side of South Main Street opposite the campus of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont The house stands near the street on an irregularly shaped lot approximately 2 1 acres in size, A well-kept lawn extends to the northeast and southeast of the house; the portion of the lot southwest of the house has been hard-ropped to provide a parking area At the rear of the area (south of the house near the property line) stands a small wooden storage barn with a pitched roof

The Emma Willard House is composed of three units the main block; a wing with separate entrance attached to the rear portion of the southwest elevation of that block; and a small ell extending southeast from the rear of the wing Both the main block and the wing are brick, two stories in height, with hipped roofs broken by interior chimneys The frame and clapboard ell is a story-and-a-half in height with a pitched roof All i/i three units are set on a low stone foundation, The entire house is painted m a cream color with white trim. m

Decorative detail on the exterior of the house is minimal Flat arches top the windows and entrances on both the main block and the wing; z louvered blinds hang at the windows The two doorways are flanked by i/i narrow rectangular lights, three on either side; above each is a large H

horizontal light set between two smaller vertical lights During the TO nineteenth century, full-length porches were added to the front elevation C= of the main block and the wing but these have now been removed n The interior simplicity of the house complements that of its exterior1 here decorative detail is limited largely to the plain wooden mouldings around the windows and doors Most of the rooms have fireplaces; in the o parlor, to the right (southwest) of the main entrance, the windows retain z their original interior shutters The only significant structural change on in the interior of the house has been the removal of a wall, creating one space from the two original rooms occupying the first-floor rear of the main block,

Boundary

Boundaries of the National Historic Landmark: the boundaries of this Landmark are those of the property as acquired by Middlebury College in 1959 and recorded in Book 56, Page 416 of the Land Records, Middlebury Town Clerk's Office beginning at the edge of South Main Street at the westerly corner of said property, which is the northerly corner of lands of the President and Fellows of Middlebury College adjoining the highway at this location, thence along the southeasterly side of the highway 327 feet, more or less, to lands of Grant and Kathryn Harnest, thence 224,7 feet, more or less,, along the line marking the southwesterly boundary of lands of said Harnests described in the deedi#to them from the President and Fellows of Middlebury College; recorded ati Volume 53, Page 534, of Middlebury Land Records, to lands referred to ,in that deed as being retained by the President and Fellows of Middlebury College, thence (Continued) Forni IO-300a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Vermont NATIONAL REGISTER OF HI.STORIC PLACES COUNTY Addison1 INVENTORY NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (NATIONAL HISTORIC (Continuation Sheet) ENTRY NUMBER DATE

(Number ell entries) 7 Description: (1) Emma Willard House

southerly along lands of said College 73 feet, more or less, to lands of William and Mary Upson at a point marked by an iron pipe to which reference is made as marking the southwest corner of lands of said College in a deed to said Upsons from said College recorded November 26, 1947, at Volume 50, Page 99, of Middlebury Land Records, thence southwesterly 100 feet, more or less, along said Upson's line to a point marked by an iron stake, thence; westerly 196 feet, more or less,- along lands of said College acquired by deed from Walter E Howard recorded February 6, 1912, at Volume 34, Page 690, to a corner therein, thence continuing northwesterly along said College lands 286 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning,

GP 0 9 21-7 24 SIGNIFICANCE

PERIOD (Check One or More at Appropriate) • Pre-Columbian! • 16th Conliry • 18th Century • 20th Century • 15»h Century £ • 17th Century 19th Century

SPECIFIC DATEIS) (Ii Applicable and Known) 1809, 1814-1819

AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More at Appropriate) Abor iginal Education • Political I I' Urban Planning I I Prehistoric ( | Engineering '• Religion/Phi • Other (Specify) • Historic | | Industry losophy fi Agriculture { 1 Invention 1 I Science • I I Architecture n Landscape 1 I Sculpture • Art Architecture [~~| Social/Human: I 1 Commerce I I Literature itarion I I Communications • Military • Theater ( I Conservation | 1 Music [ I Transportation

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

This two-story brick building was from 1809 until 1819 the home of Emma Hart Willard, an influential pioneer in the development of women's education in the United States Mrs Willard's Address to the Public; Particularly to the Members of the Legislature of New York, Proposing a Plan for Improving Female Education, presented in 1818 and published the following year, has been termed the "Magna Carta of female education" The basic ideas concerning women's education expressed in the Plan were derived from Mrs Willard's experience with the Middlebury Female Seminary, which she operated in her home from 1814 until 1819 and for which she developed her own lectures and teaching methods

Since 1959, the Willard House has; been owned by Middlebury College and is maintained in excellent condition, It is used by the College as an admissions office, but is open to visitors upon request

History

Intellectual interests stimulated Emma Willard throughout her life, Born Emma Hart on February 23, 1787, in Berlin, Connecticut, she grew up in a family that appreciated books and first taught while completing her own education Subsequently she moved to Middlebury, Vermont, where she supervised a female academy from 1807 until 1809 In that year she married Dr John Willard; she was 22 and his third wife, he was 50,

Though apparently fated to be a housewife for the rest of her life, Mrs Willard retained her interest in female schooling She acquired a thorough knowledge of the program of Middlebury College, which was just across the street from her home, and realized all the more the inadequacy of women's education,

In 1814, financial difficulties thrust Mrs Willard back into teaching; after overcoming her husband's objections, she opened the Middlebury Female seminary in her home in the spring of that year The venture marks a turning point in her life, for out of this experience emerged her basic ideas regarding the education of young women,

Mrs Willard devoted almost all of her energies to the school Teaching ten to twelve hours a day, she gradually expanded the usual female curri- culum of music, drawing, and penmanship by adding courses in mathematics, (Continued) Form 10-300o UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (July 1969) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Vermont NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY Addison INVENTORY NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (NAT I oka; HISTORIC ENTRY NUMBER (Continuation Sheet) landmarks I (Number atl entries) 8 Statement of Significance (1) Emma Willard House

history, and languages She even ventured into philosophy When Middlebury College refused to permit her girls to audit some classes there, she developed her own courses and teaching methods for those subjects None of her pupils' collapsed, as females were supposed to do when exposed to higher education, indeed, Mrs Willard's school rapidly grew in popularity

Inspired by the success of the school and deeply concerned about the quality of women's education in general, Mrs Willard began to formulate her own program for female education, When completed, the Plan began forthrightly by stating that the education of young women needed reform, Because she intended to send the document to the New York State Legislature, she quickly disavowed the idea of creating a women's college, rather proposing a "Female Seminary" She then described the current shortcomings of female learning, suggested principles for such education, proposed a model female seminary, and ended by explaining the benefits of educating women, Apropos of her last point, she claimed that well-educated women would further the growth and brilliance of the American Republic Hoping to stimulate state support, she presented her Plan to the New York Legislature in 1818 Some legislators applauded the Plan, but most felt that the Republic needed only educated men and Mrs Willard's plea for support failed The following year, Mrs Willard published the Plan at her own expense

Refusing to allow the Legislature's reaction to defeat her and still hoping to gain some state aid for her Plan, Mrs Willard transferred her seminary from Middlebury to Waterford, New York, in 1819 No state aid came, but support did come from the citizens of Troy, New York, who offered to provide a building for Mrs Willard's seminary Thus, in 1821, classes began at Mrs Willard's Troy Female Seminary Once again, she worked exceedingly hard, teaching those subjects for which she could not afford to hire instructors She constantly expanded the curriculum and wrote textbooks her- self; her volumes on history and geography eventually came into wide use,

Though Mrs Williard retired in 1838, turning over management of the seminary to her son, she did not abandon her interest in education She cooperated with Henry Barnard in Connecticut and helped to improve that state's public schools Mrs Willard also travelled throughout the United States to speak in behalf of improving female education, In addition, she supported the betterment of opportunities for women as teachers, stressing the need for higher salaries and improved classroom facilities Mrs Willard died on April 15, 1870, 9 MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Barnard, Henry, ed Memoirs of Teachers, Educators, and Promoters and Benefactors of Education, Literature and Science (New. York, 1859) Lord, John, "The Life of Emma Willard", Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1873) " — Lutz, Alma, Emma Willard, Daughter of Democracy (New York, 1929)

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|l:L FORM PREPAREPBY" NAME AND TITLE: Polly M, Re11ig, Historian, Landmark Review Project; original n form prepared by S. S. Bradford, Historian, 10/21/65 ORGANIZATION H Historic Sites Survey, National Park Service 12/2/74 STREET AND NUMBER: 1100 L Street NW. CITY OR TOWN: Washington JUL 11 12. STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION:

As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law National Register. 89-665), Thereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been ¡(NATIONAL HI a""10 — evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set LAN DM ALL ''Landmark forth by the National Park Service. The recommended -9c littorie I^rcabYVation level of significance of this nomination is: Director, Ottico ol Archeology end date National • State • Local • ((NATIONAL F^ LANDMA/ki íF-30. Dste Name N/A Chid, Ilici. , ATTEST: ca.o National Historic Landmark Arch. Surveys

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Form No. 10-301 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE Rev! 7-72 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Vermont COUNTY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Addison PROPERTY MAP FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY

EN TRY NUMBER DATE (Type all entries attach to or enclose with map) UÌ Z }l. NAME \ ' o COMMON: Emma Willard House ANO/OR HISTORIC: Emma Willard House h- 2-, LOCATION % STREET AND NUMBER: u => 131 South Main Street (Vermont Route 30) e CITY OR TOWN: ct Middlebury COUNTY: jliìr. LT) Vermont 050 Addison 001 3. MAP REFERENCE z SOURC E: U.S.G.S. 7.5 minute series UJ SCALE: 1; 24,000 Ì DATE: 1963 LU .4. REQUIREMENTS «/» TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2. North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference.

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From: Boone, Nancy Sent: Tuesday, February.03, 2009 8:45 AM To: Ehrlich, Judith; Colman, Devin; Dillon, Scott; Peebles, Giovanna; Newman, Scott; '[email protected]' Subject: FW- Section 106 Consultation

FYI

Nancy E. Boone Acting State Historic Preservation Officer Vermont Division for Historic Preservation 802-828-3045 www.historicvermont.org

From: Craig, Lisa [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 4:58 PM To: Boone, Nancy \ Subject: Section 106 Consultation

Ms. Boone,

Please accept this email as notification that the National FHistoric Landmark Stewards Association, a 501 c3 nonprofit organization, "dedicated to the protection, preservation, and promotion of historic résources that possess national significance' requests that we be considered an interested party in any Section 106 consultation dealing with National Historic Landmarks in the State of Vermont. e

I'm including a link to the NHLSA website so that you can learn a little more about our organization. While we are a volunteer organization made up of NHL Stewards from around the country, a number of our members have been involved with 106 consultations as either professional preservationists or community activists and would appreciate the opprounity to contribute our knowledge and experience to any consultation involving a Federal undertaking affecting an NHL property.

As a former SHPO (Washington, DC) I understand the importance of the 106 process in the preservation of our nation's historic places and hope that you will consider our engagement in any future 106 consultation as something that will potentially benefit NHL properties in the state. Many thanks for taking a moment to read this email. If you have any questions or need to forward my email to the appropriate compliance reviewer for their consideration, please feel free to contact me at the address or phone/email listed below. I've provided a link to our organization's website, below. http://nationalhistoriclandmarks.org

Lisa M. Craig President, National Historic Landmark Stewards Association c/o 1836 Shore Dr Edgewater, MD 21037 202-262-2008 (cell) [email protected]

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IN REPLY REFER TO:

H3417-772

Mr William B, Pinney Director Vermont Division for Historic Preservation Pavilion Office Building Montpelier, Vermont 05602

Dear Mr Pinney ! 3

For the past few years a National Historic Landmarks Program special task force has been at work establishing specific boundaries for the approximately 800 properties that were designated national historic landmarks prior to 1970, During this period members of the task force have often called on you and your staff for advice and assistance We appreciate the significant help you have given us in this difficult task

The purpose of this letter is to inform you that we are beginning to send out the results of the work of the Boundary Review Task Force Enclosed are copies of the National Register forms for landmarks in your State, As the remaining forms are completed, we will send them to you

We appreciate your interest in the National Historic Landmarks Program and your support of this special boundary project

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/George F./Emery Chief, Historic Si Survey Division

Enclosures

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The Tieonderoga ^h-lkiMi'fS

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