At 361 Barnum Avenue in East Bridgeport is a Second Empire-style house, built in 1868 for Claudius R. Hayward, who was a real estate developer and a contractor for the Wheeler & Wilson Company, manufacturers of sewing machines. The house’s architect was Abram Skaats, who designed many houses for the wealthy of Bridgeport in the late 1860s and early 1870s.
Claudius R. Hayward House (1868)
I know the house …reminds me of the Haunted House at Disney World! Washington Park, Bridgeport, CT. The Park is surrounded by architectural masterpieces!
He and is wife are buried at Mountain Grove Cemetery in Bridgeport. Their daughter died in 1870. If the house was built in 1868, there is a chance she died there at the age of two.