Sanborn 1886 Map:
1879 Bird's Eye View:
The large house on the corner of Elm Street was the David DeForest house of 1822 (demolished for the current courthouse building). Their property extended over half the block and had green houses and elaborate gardens. Only three houses faced Church Street, all demolished in 1942 to avoid taxes according to a newspaper article.
226 Church Street
Status: Demolished, 1942
Built for: Cyrus Winthrop (?), probably 1820s-1850s
This three bay house was a typical New Haven three bay Greek Revival, with an iron balcony running across the front and a porch with Temple of the Winds columns and an attic board. A fine balustrade ran above the cornice. Cyrus Winthrop is probably not the builder, but is one of the few names associated with the house.
This three bay house was a typical New Haven three bay Greek Revival, with an iron balcony running across the front and a porch with Temple of the Winds columns and an attic board. A fine balustrade ran above the cornice. Cyrus Winthrop is probably not the builder, but is one of the few names associated with the house.
230 Church Street
Status: Demolished, 1942
Built for: Frank D. Trowbridge, 1860s
Like its neighbor at 226, this house followed the same general pattern but was finished in the Italianate style, with a heavy cornice, elaborate bracketed porch with a balustrade, and an alternation of window styles, with long rectangular windows on the first floor and segmental arched windows on the second with cast-iron hood moldings.
Like its neighbor at 226, this house followed the same general pattern but was finished in the Italianate style, with a heavy cornice, elaborate bracketed porch with a balustrade, and an alternation of window styles, with long rectangular windows on the first floor and segmental arched windows on the second with cast-iron hood moldings.
234 Church Street
Status: Demolished, 1942
Built for: Charles H. Townshend, probably 1820s-1850s
This three bay house probably looked almost exactly like 226 Church St. when it was first built in the Greek Revival style, as the telltale Greek Revival porch demonstrated (almost identical to 226). Some time in the 1860s or 70s, like many of the other, older houses on Church Street, it was remodeled in the Second Empire style, though here there were significant alterations. A two story bay window was added to the front of the house, a feature reflected on a houses further up Church as well as on College Street. The dormers in the mansard roof, instead of being confined to the roof above the cornice, cut the cornice, a feature similar to the Dwight remodel on Wall and College. A rather odd addition was built to the left with a tiny dormer in the mansard and three small windows lined up. Later in the 1880s, the house was further altered with fanciful, asymmetrical Queen Anne turrets added to each of the front corners and two story bay windows added to the sides.
The site of these buildings is currently a parking lot and the Gold Building.
This three bay house probably looked almost exactly like 226 Church St. when it was first built in the Greek Revival style, as the telltale Greek Revival porch demonstrated (almost identical to 226). Some time in the 1860s or 70s, like many of the other, older houses on Church Street, it was remodeled in the Second Empire style, though here there were significant alterations. A two story bay window was added to the front of the house, a feature reflected on a houses further up Church as well as on College Street. The dormers in the mansard roof, instead of being confined to the roof above the cornice, cut the cornice, a feature similar to the Dwight remodel on Wall and College. A rather odd addition was built to the left with a tiny dormer in the mansard and three small windows lined up. Later in the 1880s, the house was further altered with fanciful, asymmetrical Queen Anne turrets added to each of the front corners and two story bay windows added to the sides.
The site of these buildings is currently a parking lot and the Gold Building.
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