The house at 401 Noble Avenue in Bridgeport was built in 1887 for Moses Redshaw, a toolmaker. According to his obituary in The Iron Age, Vol. 100, No. 9 (August 30, 1917):
Moses W. Redshaw, Bridgeport, Conn., general superintendent of the Bridgeport works of the Singer Sewing Machine Co., was killed Aug. 22 by a a fall through a hole in the floor of the factory, where repairs were being made. Mr. Redshaw was 65 years old and had been connected with the business for 45 years.
The Parish House of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Waterbury stylistically complements the 1873 Gothic-style church. It was built in 1922 and was designed by architect Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
The Loomis School in Windsor, later to become Loomis-Chaffee, was founded by five Loomis siblings who had all lost their own children. In the 1910s, the firm of Murphy & Dana of New York created a plan for the school‘s campus that would feature a symmetrical quadrangle and covered walkways, reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson’s plan for the University of Virginia. Anchoring the quadrangle is the centerpiece of the Georgian Revival-style campus: Founders Hall, completed in 1916. The building, which originally contained the school’s entire academic program, also houses Founders Chapel.
This is Historic Buildings of Connecticut’s 1700th building post! Milton Hall in Milton in Litchfield was built in 1900 on site of a former store and Post Office that had burned in 1894. Events at the hall are organized by the Milton Public Hall Association.
Merry Christmas from Historic Buildings of Connecticut! St. Stanislaus Parish in Bristol was founded in 1919 as a Polish-American Roman Catholic parish. A basement church was built on West Street in 1920-1921 and used until 1954, when it was demolished to make way for the current Gothic edifice, dedicated in 1956.
The railroad came to Naugatuck in 1849 and by the turn-of-the-century the lines through town were owned by the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. When the time came to design a new and larger railway station, John H. Whittemore, Naugatuck’s great manufacturer and philanthropist, who had done so much to shape the architecture of the town center according to his vision of a “City Beautiful,” offered to help pay for its construction if he could select the building’s architect. Whittemore, who was also director of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, commissioned Henry Bacon to design the station, which was constructed between 1908 and 1910. The style of the building has been described as Spanish Colonial Revival, but also as Italian Villa style. Although trains still stop at a newer station nearby, the old station closed in the mid-1960s. Used for a time as a newspaper plant by the Naugatuck Daily News, the building has more recently been restored and converted into a museum by the Naugatuck Historical Society.
The George Gould House, built in 1896 for an oyster dealer, is located at 110 Ellsworth Street in Black Rock in Bridgeport. It is similar in some respects to the neighboring Arthur Smith House, another Queen Anne structure, although the Gould House’s tower is not on the side, but off-center along the main facade gable.
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