Redstone began in 1889 as a 66-acre estate on South Prospect Street in Burlington. Developed in 1889, this property contains some of Burlington’s finest examples of Richardsonian Romanesque, Shingle, and Colonial Revival architecture. What survives today is centered on Redstone Green and a handful of surrounding buildings now part of the University of Vermont’s Redstone Campus. The University of Vermont acquired the property in 1921, and the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 as the Redstone Historic District.
You are at the far southwestern end of the university campus, between South Prospect Street and the athletic facilities, on land that was once a 66-acre estate. The southern and eastern portions of that estate have since been developed mainly for university housing, while adjacent to South Prospect Street the Green remains—an open space defined by the estate’s original main drive, which traces a rough square with the street. On the east side of the Green a rise carries Andrew Buell’s 1889 Richardsonian Romanesque house, now called Redstone Hall.
Andrew Buell's 1889 Richardsonian Romanesque house still rises before you on the east side, now known simply as Redstone Hall.