Located on a slope rising from Lake Champlain, Burlington was an important port in the 19th century and has a wealth of historic buildings and many historic districts. Battery Street, near the waterfront and site of a ferry landing since the early 1800s, is known for its historic commercial and industrial buildings. Around City Hall Park are the Colonial Revival style city hall, the old Ethan Allen Firehouse, several banks, a hotel, and the Art Deco Flynn Theatre. Nearby, at the head of Church Street, is the outstanding Federal Unitarian Church, the Richardsonian Romanesque Masonic Temple, and a late 19th-century department store. There are commercial buildings up Pearl Street, as well as handsome early to mid-19th-century homes of Burlington’s prosperous mercantile class. Found throughout the “Hill Section” are many significant Italianate, Queen Anne, and Colonial Revival residences of the late 19th- and early 20th-centuries that were built by well-to-do industrialists and businessmen. At the top of the hill is the University Green Historic District, the home of the University of Vermont, founded in 1791. Outstanding buildings include the Old Mill, Billings Library (designed by H.H. Richardson), and Ira Allen Chapel and Waterman Hall (both designed by the firm of McKim, Mead, and White). Nearby is the Redstone Campus of UVM with more buildings designed by McKim, Mead, and White.