Sanborn 1886 Map:
1879 Bird's Eye View:
This street is complicated because Hillhouse High School obscures the 1879 Bird's Eye View. Similarly, only one photograph (a grainy one at that) shows the buildings on this side of the street. I have reproduced the buildings seen in that photograph here. I am unsure about the small three-bay Federal house seen on the Bird's Eye. The house on the left side corner faces Wall Street and will be discussed there. Unfortunately, there is little information about these buildings, which all seem to have been demolished in the 1940s, so I can't provide much context here.
189 Orange Street
Status: Demolished, 1940s
Built For: ?, probably 1860s-70s
A three-bay Second Empire row house in brick, this is the least well-documented of the buildings in this area. I'm not sure about the angled bay to the side and how it worked. Clearly there was a porch as well, but I couldn't find it represented so I have not ventured a guess. In appearance, it resembles the surviving Second Empire row houses a block to the north on Orange Street between Grove and Audubon, which have been heavily altered.
Built For: ?, probably 1860s-70s
A three-bay Second Empire row house in brick, this is the least well-documented of the buildings in this area. I'm not sure about the angled bay to the side and how it worked. Clearly there was a porch as well, but I couldn't find it represented so I have not ventured a guess. In appearance, it resembles the surviving Second Empire row houses a block to the north on Orange Street between Grove and Audubon, which have been heavily altered.
190 Orange Street
Status: Demolished, 1940s
Built For: ?, probably 1860s-70s
This house is a bit clearer in the image, a tall, wooden, three bay row house. This rested on a high basement and had, uniquely, a porch running across the front of the façade with vaguely Gothic gingerbread. The porch was supported on matching posts below, giving the basement a full porch as well. A rather capacious bay window hung from the right hand side wall.
194 Orange Street
Built For: ?, probably 1860s-70s
This house is a bit clearer in the image, a tall, wooden, three bay row house. This rested on a high basement and had, uniquely, a porch running across the front of the façade with vaguely Gothic gingerbread. The porch was supported on matching posts below, giving the basement a full porch as well. A rather capacious bay window hung from the right hand side wall.
194 Orange Street
Status: Demolished, 1940s
Built For: ?, either 1800-1820 or 1860s-70s
This wooden house, seemingly Second Empire, I believe to be somewhat older. New Haven had a large amount of three bay Federal style houses that were gussied up in the Second Empire taste with mansard roofs and new porches. A surviving example is on Temple Street between Wall and Elm. The scale of the windows and structure suggests Federal much more than Second Empire. Additionally, the Juliette balcony to the right of the house, which resembles examples of the 1850s on Orange Street and on Chapel Street in Wooster Square, suggests that it was added before the mansard roof and supports an earlier date for the house.
Plans show a large empty lot on Grove Street.
Built For: ?, either 1800-1820 or 1860s-70s
This wooden house, seemingly Second Empire, I believe to be somewhat older. New Haven had a large amount of three bay Federal style houses that were gussied up in the Second Empire taste with mansard roofs and new porches. A surviving example is on Temple Street between Wall and Elm. The scale of the windows and structure suggests Federal much more than Second Empire. Additionally, the Juliette balcony to the right of the house, which resembles examples of the 1850s on Orange Street and on Chapel Street in Wooster Square, suggests that it was added before the mansard roof and supports an earlier date for the house.
Plans show a large empty lot on Grove Street.
Block Survival Rate: 0/3: 0%
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