Stowe Village Historic District, historic district in Vermont, United States

Stowe Village Historic District is a National Register district listed in 1978, centred on the three-way junction of Vermont Route 100 and Vermont Route 108 (Mountain Road) in Stowe, Vermont. It runs from Palisades Street south to just beyond Cemetery Road northeast, and along Mountain Road to where it bends away from the West Branch Little River. Its streets hold wood-frame buildings in many 19th-century styles, some brick houses, the 1833 Green Mountain Inn in brick Federal style, and the 1818 and 1902 town halls.

The area was established in the early 1800s when a tavern was built in 1811, making it a business hub. In the 1800s, roads to the mountains were constructed, attracting wealthy visitors and leading to the construction of the Mount Mansfield Hotel in 1864, which helped transform the area into a resort destination.

The village center grew as a resort trade promoted by W. H. H. Bingham, who built the Mount Mansfield Hotel in 1864 and the Summit Hotel on Mount Mansfield and laid out roads to Mount Mansfield and Smugglers Notch. The 1864 hotel burned in 1889. The streetscape that remains mixes wood-frame buildings with brick houses and the 1833 Green Mountain Inn, a brick Federal building.

The district centers on the three-way junction of Vermont Route 100 (Main Street south, Maple Street northeast) and Vermont Route 108 (Mountain Road), which runs toward Stowe Mountain Resort. It reaches from Palisades Street south to just past Cemetery Road northeast, and along Mountain Road to where it bends away from the West Branch Little River. Side streets just south of Main Street are also included.

The 1833 Green Mountain Inn is the village's brick Federal outlier among wood-frame buildings. The sources also credit W. H. H. Bingham with promoting the tourist trade: he built the Mount Mansfield Hotel in 1864, which burned in 1889, and the Summit Hotel on Mount Mansfield, plus roads to Mount Mansfield and Smugglers Notch.