Montpelier State Street autumn
— — the street the maples gild in October.
Not only on a wall.
“State Street runs east-to-west through downtown Montpelier, ending at the gold dome of the Vermont State House. In mid-October the sugar maples along the sidewalk turn the block into a corridor of red and yellow, with the granite facades behind them holding the light. Montpelier is the smallest state capital in the country by population, under 8,000 residents, and walks like a village. from the studio
Montpelier State Street autumn, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Montpelier is the capital of Vermont and the smallest state capital in the United States by population, with roughly 8,000 residents in the city proper as of the 2020 census. State Street runs east-west through the downtown along the north bank of the Winooski River, ending at the steps of the Vermont State House. The street holds most of the city's nineteenth-century granite-block civic and commercial buildings and is the corridor the city is most often photographed along, particularly during peak foliage in early-to-mid October.
Peak autumn color in Montpelier typically falls between October 5th and October 15th, varying by a few days with weather. Sugar maples along State Street — Acer saccharum, the state tree of Vermont — turn earliest, moving through yellow and orange into deep red. The Vermont Department of Tourism publishes a weekly foliage map updated each Wednesday through the season. Northern Vermont peaks earliest; the Champlain Valley and southern Vermont follow by a week to ten days.
The Vermont State House at the head of State Street is built of granite quarried at Barre, fifteen minutes east, and rests on a foundation of the same stone. The current building was completed in 1859 to a design by Thomas Silloway after fire destroyed its predecessor; the dome was gilded with gold leaf during a 1907 restoration and has been re-gilded periodically since, most recently in 1994. A wooden statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, stands at the apex.