Sanborn 1886 Map:
1879 Bird's Eye View:
311 Temple Street
Status: Extant!
Built for: Ezekiel Trowbridge, 1853 by Sidney Mason Stone
A rather amazing survival, the Ezekiel Trowbridge house is potentially one of New Haven's finest surviving Italianate mansions. Records indicate that it caused quite a stir when first constructed. The house is a five bay Italianate, an uncommon bay length in New Haven. The brick façade has lavish brownstone hood moldings with alternating segmental (round) and pointed pediments resting on acanthus leaf brackets. The porch is particularly fine with extremely thin Indian style columns in the style of Henry Austin and rich carved foliage in the porch spandrels. The only major losses to the house are the balustrades above the porch and on the roof, which is a pity as the roof balustrade had a central arched panel that repeated the carved foliage on the porch. These seem to have vanished in the mid-20th century. The house was altered in 1911 when it became the parish house of Center Church and a large Colonial Revival hall was added to the rear. The house has recently been restored.
Built for: James Dana, 1799
A rather amazing survival, the Ezekiel Trowbridge house is potentially one of New Haven's finest surviving Italianate mansions. Records indicate that it caused quite a stir when first constructed. The house is a five bay Italianate, an uncommon bay length in New Haven. The brick façade has lavish brownstone hood moldings with alternating segmental (round) and pointed pediments resting on acanthus leaf brackets. The porch is particularly fine with extremely thin Indian style columns in the style of Henry Austin and rich carved foliage in the porch spandrels. The only major losses to the house are the balustrades above the porch and on the roof, which is a pity as the roof balustrade had a central arched panel that repeated the carved foliage on the porch. These seem to have vanished in the mid-20th century. The house was altered in 1911 when it became the parish house of Center Church and a large Colonial Revival hall was added to the rear. The house has recently been restored.
325 Temple Street
Status: Demolished, 1896
A transitional Colonial/Federal style house, it had a rather grand, probably Greek Revival ionic columned porch (I'd guess it was added around the 1820s-30s. The house can be seen here. It was replaced in 1896 by a rather solid Colonial Revival apartment building. This in turn was demolished in 1960 for the current structure.
Block Survival Rate: 1/2: 50%
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