Old Chittenden County Courthouse

Five Sisters is a historic neighborhood in the South End of Burlington, Vermont. There are approximately 300 homes on the neighborhood's five streets which were completed in the late 19th and early 20th century. According to local legend, these streets were named after the developer's five daughters, though local historians can neither confirm nor deny such rumors. In 2006, the Five Sisters neighborhood was named to the "top ten" neighborhoods in the United States by Cottage Living magazine.

Pine Street Art Works is a privately owned art gallery and store, in Burlington, Vermont, showing 20th and 21st century painting and photography, as well 20th century posters, chromolithographs and assorted works on paper. The 2,500-square-foot (230 m2) gallery is located in a former factory, which was built during the mid 20th century, to dress fibers and bristles for brooms and brushes. The creation of the gallery involved renovation of the interior, leaving the exterior as it was.

The Pine Street Industrial Historic District encompasses a collection of maritime industrial buildings and archaeological sites in southern Burlington, Vermont. The district includes buildings across nearly 100 years, encompassing the development and decline of the area, which served as a major railroad and shipping terminus from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

The South Union Street Historic District encompasses a historic 19th-century residential neighborhood for the upper middle class in Burlington, Vermont. Developed along South Union Street between Main and Howard Streets, South Union grew between about 1835 and 1938 as a popular area for well-to-do yet middle class Burlingtonians, affording views of Lake Champlain to the west. The architecturally diverse district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Decker Towers is an 11-floor apartment building at 230 St. Paul Street in Burlington, Vermont. At 124 feet (38 m) tall, it is the tallest building in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is the shortest of any of the US states' tallest buildings, in part because Burlington is the smallest of the US states' biggest cities. Decker Towers was built as a turnkey project. After Pizzagalli Construction Company built it in October 29, 1970-August 31, 1971, the city of Burlington purchased it. It is owned and managed as public housing by the Burlington Housing Authority. Its assessed value is $11,104,000, with the building, land, and yard items valued at $10,224,700; $712,900; and $166,400, respectively.

The Chittenden-3-5 Representative District is a two-member state Representative district in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is one of the 108 one or two member districts into which the state was divided by the redistricting and reapportionment plan developed by the Vermont General Assembly following the 2000 U.S. Census. The plan applies to legislatures elected in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010. A new plan will be developed in 2012 following the 2010 U.S. Census. The Chittenden-3-5 District includes a section of the Chittenden County city of Burlington defined as follows: Consisting of that portion of the City of Burlington encompassed within a boundary beginning from the shore of Lake Champlain and the boundary line with the City of South Burlington, then easterly along the boundary line between the City of Burlington and the City of South Burlington to Shelburne Street, then northerly and then easterly along the boundary line with the City of South Burlington, then northerly along the boundary line with the City of South Burlington to the intersection of Davis Road, then southwesterly along Davis Road to the intersection of South Prospect Street, then northerly along South Prospect Street to the intersection of Main Street, then westerly along Main Street to the intersection of Willard Street, then southerly along Willard Street to the intersection of Maple Street, then westerly along Maple Street to the intersection of St. Paul Street, then southerly along St. Paul Street to the intersection of Kilburn Street, then westerly along Kilburn Street to the intersection of Pine Street, then southerly along Pine Street to where the railroad track parallels Pine Street, then northwesterly along the railroad track to the intersection of Maple Street, then westerly along Maple Street to the intersection of the shore of Lake Champlain, then southerly along the shore of Lake Champlain to the point of beginning. The rest of Burlington is in Chittenden-3-1, Chittenden-3-2, Chittenden-3-3, Chittenden-3-4 and Chittenden-3-6. As of the 2000 census, the state as a whole had a population of 608,827. As there are a total of 150 representatives, there were 4,059 residents per representative (or 8,118 residents per two representatives). The two member Chittenden-3-5 District had a population of 8,826 in that same census, 8.72% above the state average.

The South Willard Street Historic District encompasses what was once the most fashionable residential area of Burlington, Vermont. Located along South Willard Street between Pearl and Beech Streets, the architecturally heterogeneous area was in the 19th century home to major estates of the city's business leaders, and has since been infilled with a variety of late 19th and early 20th century architecture. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

The Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) is chartered as a private non-profit agency to finance and promote affordable housing opportunities for low- and moderate- income Vermonters. They are located in Burlington, Vermont.

The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts known as The Flynn is an arts venue in Burlington, Vermont. It is based in a refurbished Art Deco movie palace.

The Chittenden County Superior Courthouse, formerly the U.S. Post Office and Custom House, is a historic government building at 175 Main Street in downtown Burlington, Vermont. It was built in 1906 and was designed by James Knox Taylor in the Beaux-Arts style. Known in the 1970s as the Smith-Goldberg U.S. Army Reserve Center, it served historically as a custom house and post office. It currently houses the Chittenden County Superior Court, after the previous county courthouse burned down in 1982.

Burlington is the most populous municipality in the U.S. state of Vermont and the seat of Chittenden County. It is located 45 miles (72 km) south of the Canada–United States border and 95 miles (153 km) south of Montreal. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 44,743. It is the least populous city in the 50 U.S. states to be the most populous city in its state. A regional college town, Burlington is home to Champlain College and the University of Vermont (UVM). Vermont's largest hospital, the UVM Medical Center, is within the city limits. The City of Burlington owns Vermont's largest airport, the Burlington International Airport, located in neighboring South Burlington. In 2015, Burlington became the first city in the U.S. to run entirely on renewable energy.

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Burlington, Vermont, USA