Sanborn 1886 Map:
1879 Bird's Eye View:
This block, like its facing block on the other side of Temple Street, featured a series of very impressive Federal houses built by some of New Haven's most important families. The block was mostly demolished, with the exception of the Noah Webster House (360) in 1932 to form an open space known as "Vanderbuilt Square". This was replaced soon after by Silliman College, which occupies the site today.
332 Temple Street
Status: Demolished, 1932
Built for: Elizur Goodrich, 1802
A simple Federal Style house, five bays, ridge front. The massing is much closer to 18th century rather than 19th century examples, reflecting its early date. The house had a porch with delicate, thin Tuscan columns and strong, dentilled window moldings. The back had several additions, the brick one with a chimney stack that looks like a factory, as can be seen on Wall Street. It can be seen here.
344 Temple Street
Built for: Charles Denison, 1815
Constructed for an attorney in 1815, the five bay ridge front house house has typical Federal details, most notable of which is the broken pediment porch with scamozzi Ionic capitals.
352 Temple Street
Built for: Rev. Samuel Wales, 1800
This house was a simple Federal Style five bay, ridge front design with an intriguing porch. Resting on scamozzi Ionic columns, it had a full pediment but no entablature, a typical amount of fudging on correct details seen in the Federal Style. In essence, it pretty much matched the other houses on the block. However, in the 1880s, the house was heavily remodeled by Ezekiel Stoddard, with the addition of metal cresting to the roof, a new front porch and a box window projecting above it with a pediment and crest. Additions were made all along the rear, almost doubling the size of the house and including Queen Anne details, a remodel not unlike that across at the street at 331. The house can be seen in its original state here. The house can be seen after alterations on the right of this picture.
A simple Federal Style house, five bays, ridge front. The massing is much closer to 18th century rather than 19th century examples, reflecting its early date. The house had a porch with delicate, thin Tuscan columns and strong, dentilled window moldings. The back had several additions, the brick one with a chimney stack that looks like a factory, as can be seen on Wall Street. It can be seen here.
344 Temple Street
Status: Demolished, 1932
Constructed for an attorney in 1815, the five bay ridge front house house has typical Federal details, most notable of which is the broken pediment porch with scamozzi Ionic capitals.
352 Temple Street
Status: Demolished, 1932
This house was a simple Federal Style five bay, ridge front design with an intriguing porch. Resting on scamozzi Ionic columns, it had a full pediment but no entablature, a typical amount of fudging on correct details seen in the Federal Style. In essence, it pretty much matched the other houses on the block. However, in the 1880s, the house was heavily remodeled by Ezekiel Stoddard, with the addition of metal cresting to the roof, a new front porch and a box window projecting above it with a pediment and crest. Additions were made all along the rear, almost doubling the size of the house and including Queen Anne details, a remodel not unlike that across at the street at 331. The house can be seen in its original state here. The house can be seen after alterations on the right of this picture.
360 Temple Street
Status: Moved, 1936
Built for: Noah Webster, 1823 by David Hoadley
The Noah Webster house does survive, but not in New Haven. In Henry Ford upon hearing that the house was slated for demolition, purchased it and erected it in Greenfield Village, his museum to architecture and inventors. The house is of a type in New Haven, a five bay, gable front house, of which there are only two examples, this and the house at the corner of College and Crown Street. This house features a scamozzi Ionic portico, like almost all the houses on this street, a shallow bracketed cornice, and an odd oval fan in the center of the gable end, a unique feature in the city. The house has lost many of its Italianate additions, including a bay window, a large iron, tent roofed porch, and oriole windows in the move and restoration. It is attributed to local architect David Hoadley, New Haven's premier Federal Style architect. Apparently Webster was rather elderly when he had this house built and it was constructed for comfort.
The house today (photo Wikimedia):
The following images are from a HABS survey:
Block Survival Rate: 0 (in position)/4: 0%
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