Sanborn 1884 Map:
1879 Bird's Eye View:
The Ralph Ingersoll house on the corner will be dealt with on Elm Street.
302 Temple Street
Status: Extant, altered, 1930s
Built for: John C. Sanford, 1840 by Ithiel Town
This was one of New Haven's exceptionally fine Greek Revival houses by its chief architect, Ithiel Town, whose own house was but blocks away. Simple, it is a perfect rendition of an Ionic temple, with a full four column, double height porch, a shallow pediment, full entablature, and three bays of simple windows. The original stucco was scored to look like stone. The building was converted into a chapel in the 1890s and a small incongruous Romanesque chapel was built to the left of the façade. All of this was swept away in the 1930s when the ensemble was remodeled in the Colonial Revival style to serve as the Yale University Press. Only a small little section of entablature on the side is still visible. The house (and the small chapel) can be seen here.
This was one of New Haven's exceptionally fine Greek Revival houses by its chief architect, Ithiel Town, whose own house was but blocks away. Simple, it is a perfect rendition of an Ionic temple, with a full four column, double height porch, a shallow pediment, full entablature, and three bays of simple windows. The original stucco was scored to look like stone. The building was converted into a chapel in the 1890s and a small incongruous Romanesque chapel was built to the left of the façade. All of this was swept away in the 1930s when the ensemble was remodeled in the Colonial Revival style to serve as the Yale University Press. Only a small little section of entablature on the side is still visible. The house (and the small chapel) can be seen here.
310-312 Temple Street
Status: Demolished, 1950s
Built for: Ezekiel Hayes Trowbridge, 1870
This was an exceptionally grand Italianate double house, probably the grandest in the city. It was built by Ezekiel Trowbridge, whose house was directly across the street, for his children. The design was brick with a stone rusticated first floor, fine stone window surrounds with pediments, bay windows, and an archaeologically correct classical entablature and cornice with carved brackets. The sides of the house featured elaborate balconies with metal awnings in a curved tent shape. These rested on very elaborately carved Renaissance brackets. No other building of this period in New Haven approached this level of European design sophistication, more typical in Boston or New York. The site is now a large parking lot. The house can be seen here.
320 Temple Street
Status: Extant!
Built for: Jedidiah Morse, 1812, altered 1875
This started life as similar to the house at 328, a three bay gable front Federal Style house built for a geographer. Around 1875, however, the house was dramatically altered, with the addition of a mansard roof in the French Second Empire style, a cupola (an uncommon feature on mansards, an oriole window, a large bay to the right, and a richly carved entrance porch. Extant with all its details intact, it currently is a Yale music building.
328 Temple Street
Status: Extant!
Built for: John H. Lynde, 1806, altered 1920
This is a typical Federal Style, three bay, gable front house so common in New Haven, built for a clerk. In 1920, the front entrance with its fine broken pediment porch was moved to the side on Wall Street and a brick addition was added to the rear in 1850. The most unique element is the palladian window in the gable; instead of the usual round arch in the center, the window comes to a point, a feature seen only on one other house in the city.
Block Survival Rate: 3/4: 75%
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