Casa Bianca is an Italianate house in New Haven, built around 1848. It most likely originally stood on Orange Street, but was moved to Bradley Street around 1882. In the early twentieth century, it was the home of George Dudley Seymour, a lawyer and preservationist. Born in Bristol, Seymour specialized in patent law in New Haven and was also dedicated to municipal improvements in the city. He urged the adoption of city planning (in line with the ideas of the City Beautiful Movement) and served as secretary of the city plan commission and the committee planning the construction of a new public library. Seymour also led the campaign to erect a statue of Nathan Hale on Yale’s Old Campus and he later restored the Nathan Hale Homestead in Coventry.
Hi, I absolutely love your page, and checking it each morning is really a nice little highlight to my day. I live in New Haven and I think that this house is the Everard Benjamin house L19 while the Casa Bianca is the charming house kitty-corner to it, L20, which, interestingly has just been painted white and cream by its owners. What tips me off is the finial; there is no cupola and finial on the house you have pictured. If you could find more information about the Benjamin house, I’d be very interested; whoever owns it just spent all summer rebuilding the porch and I know than inside are some incredible Greek revival door moldings.
You’re right Josh, I accidentally used the wrong picture! >_< The post has now been fixed with the correct image! Thanks for spotting that!!