Wall Street Between Orange Street and Church Street-North Side

Sanborn 1886 Map:

1879 Bird's Eye View:

25 Wall Street

Status: Demolished, 1940s

Built for: Robert Pierpont, 1850s

This was an impressive, tall Italianate villa with a three bay plan and an off center entrance. Atypically, the house does not have an architrave molding separating the third floor from the first two. The porch was Corinthian with a balustrade and had two side wings with an elaborate hanging bay window. The cupola was removed before its demolition in the 1940s. A partial view can be seen here showing the porch. A better view can be seen here without the cupola and with a greatly reduced eave.

Between 25 and 33, a large Richardsonian Romanesque apartment building was constructed in the 1890s. 

33 Wall Street

Status: Demolished, 1929

Built for: ?, 1830s

An especially well proportioned Greek Revival house of five bays, it is unclear for whom it was built but for most of its history it served as a school (until 1874). It was remodeled with Queen Anne details and turned into apartments in the late 19th century. The house has some especially interesting features, despite the severity of its ornament. First is that the central bay is shallowly recessed, breaking up the façade into a triple mass. The Doric porch contrasted this recess. The house had especially large attic boards with sloping sides, a very common touch in New Haven's Greek Revival houses, seen on the Ingersoll house on Elm Street and the Whitney house nearby on Elm. 

The house on the corner was the Salisbury house, by Ithiel Town. An image of the side seen here can be seen here.

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