Middletown

Buildings Index

Broad Street
8 Adath Israel Synagogue (1929)
93-97 William Hubbard Atkins House (1840)
101 Enoch C. Ferre House (1840)
123 Russell Library (1834)
144 Former Rectory of Church of the Holy Trinity (1902)
148 Charles C. Hubbard House (1861)

Church Street
200 Chi Psi Lodge (1927)
252 Olin Memorial Library (1928)

College Street
148 First Randolph Pease House (1822)
151 Second Randolph Pease House (1832)
180 Samuel T. Camp House (1865)

Court Street
190 First Church of Christ, Congregational (1872)
251 Old Middletown High School (1894)
264 Haskell-Vinal House (1873)
271 Samuel Breese House (1836)

Crescent Street
49 George R. Finley House (1873)
55 Wilcox-Meech House (1872)
71-83 Crescent Street Row Houses (1867)

East Street
455 Capt. Giles Wilcox House (1786)
953 Josiah Boardman House (1734)

Elm Street
10 St. Francis of Assisi Church (1904)

Foss Hill
96 Van Vleck Observatory (1916)

High Street
167-169 (1880)
185 Alpha Delta Phi Society (1906)
200 Eclectic Society (1907)
208 Bailey-Sibley House (1860)
213 Patricelli ’92 Theater (1868)
229 South College (1825)
242 Psi Upsilon (1893)
255 First President’s House (Wesleyan)
262 Fisk Hall (1904)
269 Coite-Hubbard House (1856)
294 Downey House (1842)
301 Richard Alsop IV House (1838)
318 Edward Augustus Russell House (1842)
327 Duane Barnes House (1848)
343 Thomas MacDonough Russell House (1902)
350 Samuel Russell House (1828)

Laurel Grove Road
15 Nehemiah Hubbard House (1744)
30 Harriet Cooper Lane House (1741)

Liberty Street
64 Samuel Babcock House (1851)

Main Street
48 Charles Boardman House (1753)
49 Caleb Fuller House (1771)
61 John Cookson House (1837)
73 William Southmayd House (1747)
93 First Baptist Church (1842)
151 General Mansfield House (1810)
179 Middlesex Mutual Assurance Building (1867)
191-195 (1835)
203 Former Universalist Church (1839)
267 Middletown National Bank (1917)
291 Old Middletown Post Office (1916)
315 Middletown Savings Bank/Liberty Bank (1928)
350 Capitol Theater (1926)
360 Pythian Building (1874/1938)
363 Central National Bank (1915)
381 Church of the Holy Trinity (1874)
420 & 422 Sheldon Building & Fagan’s Block (1868)
423 Linderme & Zurcher Building (1944)
428 Woolworth Building (1939)
460-470 Stueck Building (1893)
484-494 Caulkins & Post Building (1890)
489-493 Caulkins Garage (1905)
502-508 Ward-Cody Building (1890)
512-528 J. Poliner & Sons (1925)
533 Central Fire Station (1899)
542-544 Southmayd Building (1872)
548 Poliner Shoe Store (1833)
598-614 Hotchkiss Block (1894)
601-607 Hotel Arrigoni (1914)
613-617 Scranton Building (1876)
625-631 Arthur Magill, Jr. House (1821)
630-636 Spencer Annenberg Block (1897)
642-644 Murphy’s Drug Store (1895)
648-654 Spencer Annenberg Block (1870)
712 New Hope Bible Way Church (1799)
728 O’Rourke’s Diner (1946)

Main Street Extension
128/134 L.D. Brown & Son (1871)

Miner Street
94 Third Congregational Church (1849)
97 Rev. Joseph Graves House (1775)
125 Henry Cornwell House (1860)

Newfield Street
353 Nathaniel Bacon House (1704)
717 Pledger-Miller-Dunklee House (1803)

Pearl Street
11 Camp-Wilcox House (1874)
15 George E. Barrows House (1838)
28 Charles Brewer House (1839)
78 James G. Hubbard House (1886)
135 Saint Luke’s Home for Destitute and Aged Women (1892)

Pleasant Street
9 South Congregational Church (1867)
21 Rockwell-Sumner House (1721)
33 White-Stoddard House (1870)

Saint John Square
5 St. John’s School (1887)
9 St. John’s Roman Catholic Church (1852)

South Main Street
11 Mather-Douglas House (1811)
11 Danforth Pewter Shop (1756)

Spring Street
66 Commodore Macdonough School (1924)

Wadsworth Street
421 Wadsworth Mansion at Long Hill Estate (1911)

Warwick Street
53 Middletown Alms House (1814)

Washington Street
27 deKoven House (1791)
62-70 Stueck’s Modern Tavern (1914)
108-110 Wetmore-Starr House (1752)
138-140 Jarvis-Hotchkiss House (1838)
150 George Phillips House (1750)
155 St. Sebastian Church (1931)
202 Alsop-Weeks House (1780)
324 Henry Aston House (1835)
1066 Seth Wetmore House (1746)

Westfield Street
872 James Plumb House (1804)

Wyllys Street
45 Fayerweather Gymnasium (1894)

Links

Middlesex County Historical Society
http://www.middlesexhistory.org/

Society of Middletown First Settlers Descendants
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ctsmfsd/ResearchLinks.html

Historic Sites in Middletown
http://www.cityofmiddletown.com/History/historic_sites.htm

The History of Middletown
http://www.cityofmiddletown.com/History/history_of_middletown.htm

Wesleyan University
http://www.wesleyan.edu/

Godfrey Memorial Library
http://www.godfrey.org/

Wadsworth Mansion
http://www.wadsworthmansion.com/

Books

History of Middlesex county, Connecticut, with biographical sketches of its prominent men (1884)

A statistical account of the county of Middlesex, in Connecticut (1819), by David D. Field

Centennial Address, with Historical Sketches of Cromwell, Portland, Chatham, Middle-Haddam, Middletown and its Parishes (1853), by David D. Field

Discourse on the death of Gen. Joseph K.F. Mansfield, preached in the South Congregational church, Middletown, on Sabbath evening, September 28, 1862 (1862), by Rev. John L. Dudley

The Leading Business Men of Middeltown, Portland, Durham and Middlefield (1890)

1650-1900; Mattabeseck. Middletown. A description of the exercises connected with the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, October 10 and 11, 1900 (1900)

The Middlesex County Historical Society, Pamphlet No. 11 (1914)

A brief history of the First Church of Christ in Middletown, Connecticut for two centuries and a half, 1668-1918 (1920), by Azel Washburn Hazen

Wesleyan University

Catalogue of the Library of the Wesleyan University (1837)

Ceremonies and speeches at the laying of the corner-stone and dedication of the Orange Judd Hall of Natural Science, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., May 5, 1870 and July 18, 1871 (1872)

Alumni record of Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn., Third Edition, 1881-3 (1883)

Wesley Bicentennial, Wesleyan University (1904)

1831-1906: Celebration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Wesleyan University (1907)

Wesleyan University Bulletins: 1888-1902; 1902-1910; 1910-1913; 1918-1928.

Wesleyan University Catalogue: 1905-1912; 1912-1916