Sanborn 1886 Map:
1879 Bird's Eye View:
The First Methodist Church on the corner, now the First and Summerfield United Methodist Church, extant, is dealt with on Elm Street. This block was most demolished in stages for he current college buildings.
105 College Street
Status: Demolished, 1935
Built for: ?, 1820s-40s?
This was assuredly a Greek Revival house once, as in earlier pictures it appears with a typical Greek Revival, Doric porch. It was three bays, with a side entrance, and brick with brownstone lintels. Some time, probably in the 1870s, the house was remodeled in a Second Empire style with a new mansard roof with pointed dormers and a new porch, as seen here. The house served as the parish house for the Methodist church until it was replaced by the current parish house in 1936 in a Federal Revival style, though it keeps some similar proportions to the earlier house.
The changes can be seen here along with 109-115:
The changes can be seen here along with 109-115:
109 College Street
Status: Demolished, 1928
Built for: John Foster (?), 1820s-1840s
Pictured below, this was another three bay, side entrance, Greek Revival house, probably almost identical to 105 before it was remodeled. It had a fine Doric porch, a brick façade with brownstone lintels, and a row of dentils beneath the cornice. Sometime in the late 19th century, an addition was added to the right and the oriole window was removed along with the balustrade at the roofline. It served as the Yale Health center for many years until replaced in 1929 with the current Gothic building.
113 College Street
Status: Demolished, 1928
Built for: Samuel Butler (?) 1790s-1820s
This was a typical three bay, side entrance, ridge front, Federal Style house (its Federal design can be ascertained from the higher cornice line than would be found in Colonial examples). It had strong moldings over the windows and the typical New Haven Tuscan porch. It was also demolished for the Gothic health center building in 1929.
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115 College Street
Status: Demolished, 1909
Built for: ?, 1790s-1820s?
This was a complete copy of 113, same style, same orientation, but it was demolished in 1909 for the current large Federal Revival building of 1910.
This was a complete copy of 113, same style, same orientation, but it was demolished in 1909 for the current large Federal Revival building of 1910.
119 College Street
Status: Demolished, 1909
Built for: ?, 1820s-1840s?
A very poorly documented house, this was likely nearly identical to 109, a three bay, side entrance, Greek Revival house. It's rather odd that there is such symmetry on this street from 109 to 119.
A very poorly documented house, this was likely nearly identical to 109, a three bay, side entrance, Greek Revival house. It's rather odd that there is such symmetry on this street from 109 to 119.
123 College Street
Status: Extant!
Built for: Leverett Griswold, 1810
Built for: Leverett Griswold, 1810
Now the Elizabethan Club, the Griswold house is one of the best examples surviving of what was once a very common New Haven house design, a three bay, gable front, Federal Style house, complete with a Palladian window in the gable and an open pediment door surround, so beloved in New Haven. This provides a good example of the asymmetry of many of these three bay houses, with the door bay slightly separated by a greater length from the other two bays. The details on the house are quite fine, with a slender porch with dentils supported by impossibly thin, and classically incorrect, Tuscan columns. Small panels fill the porch entablature, almost suggesting Doric triglyphs. The Palladian window as well features a fine set of moldings with a keystone marking the center. The side wings might have been added after its construction date. As the Sanborn map shows, there was no large bay on the side as there was in the 1920s.
Status: Demolished, 1950s
Built for: George E. Day, 1870s
This was an unfortunate late loss to College Street. This four bay (an uncommon number of bays) Second Empire house looks like a product of the 1870s or late 60s to me, with a rather spare façade of brick and brownstone, featuring a complex porch design with oversized brackets and a balustrade, almost in Henry Austin's Indian idiom. The mansard roof was unexpectedly tall and had round, arched windows. Like many New Haven Second Empire houses, the brackets varied in length, with longer brackets marking the bays and shorter brackets serving as the runs. The space is currently filled by a modern addition to the old York Hall.
The corner of the house can be seen in this postcard:
This was an unfortunate late loss to College Street. This four bay (an uncommon number of bays) Second Empire house looks like a product of the 1870s or late 60s to me, with a rather spare façade of brick and brownstone, featuring a complex porch design with oversized brackets and a balustrade, almost in Henry Austin's Indian idiom. The mansard roof was unexpectedly tall and had round, arched windows. Like many New Haven Second Empire houses, the brackets varied in length, with longer brackets marking the bays and shorter brackets serving as the runs. The space is currently filled by a modern addition to the old York Hall.
The corner of the house can be seen in this postcard:
The porch can be seen here:
127 College Street
Status: Demolished, 1896
Built for: ?, 1820s-40s?, 1860s-70s?
There is only one surviving image of this house, from a hurricane in the 1880s, and even there it is somewhat poorly evidenced. Though made of wood (which suggests that it may be a remodel of a Federal House, in the image it is a Second Empire design with a roof and round dormers matching its neighbor at 125. Like several of the Second Empire designs on Church Street, it featured a two story bay window on one side, with an entrance on the other, something that seems to have been a local craze. The porch and bay window seem to have had small miniature mansard roofs. The house was demolished for the current building, York Hall, originally a fraternity (pictured above), one of the most eclectic designs in the city and an ode to terracotta.
There is only one surviving image of this house, from a hurricane in the 1880s, and even there it is somewhat poorly evidenced. Though made of wood (which suggests that it may be a remodel of a Federal House, in the image it is a Second Empire design with a roof and round dormers matching its neighbor at 125. Like several of the Second Empire designs on Church Street, it featured a two story bay window on one side, with an entrance on the other, something that seems to have been a local craze. The porch and bay window seem to have had small miniature mansard roofs. The house was demolished for the current building, York Hall, originally a fraternity (pictured above), one of the most eclectic designs in the city and an ode to terracotta.
Block Survival Rate: 1/8: 13%
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