Location: 807 VT-243, North Troy, VT 05859
The Vermont border station located at North Troy is one of twelve surviving complexes erected between 1931 and 1937 along the Vermont-Quebec border. This handsome Georgian Revival building, designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and constructed in 1937, shares common technical, stylistic and programmatic features with other stations constructed at that time.
As a group, the border stations are closely associated with three major themes in twentieth century American history: Prohibition (1919-1933), the popularization of the automobile, and the Depression of the 1930’s. The stations are part of a massive public building program that nearly doubled the number of Federal buildings, and followed the extensive rebuilding of Vermont’s road system following the Great Flood of November 3, 1927.
Today, the large concentration of contemporary, architecturally-related border stations surviving in Vermont is exceptional within the context of the United States. Of this group, the North Troy station, which is nearly identical but better preserved than those at Richford and West Berkshire, is the last of the Prohibition-era designs to be constructed. Beyond projecting an iconographic image of American architecture at the international border, the North Troy border station retains most of its original character-defining features, notably morphology, plan, masonry detailing and much fenestration.
Building Facts
- Architect: Simon, Louis A.
- Construction Dates: 1936-1937
- GSA Building Number: VT0751BT
- Landmark Status: Listed in the National Register of Historic Places
U.S. General Services Administration
