The Guilford Trust Company building, at 1 Boston Street across from Guilford Green, was built in 1912. The Guilford Trust Company and the Guilford Savings Bank shared the building until 1951, when the bank moved out. The trust company was acquired by a New Haven bank in 1957 and the building underwent alterations, including the removal of the front door. The structure is now a commercial building.
Built in 1927, the Langrock Building, at 268 York Street in New Haven was designed to fit in with the architecture of neighboring Yale University. The building, designed by Jacob Weinstein, was built by David T. Langrock to house his men’s clothing store. At the time, New Haven had become a center of custom tailoring shops. Langrock also had other clothing shops near Ivy League schools, in Princeton and Harvard Square. Although bankrupt at the time of his death, Langrock owned real estate in Providence, Rhode Island, which was sold. Part of the funds were used to establish the David T. Langrock Foundation. In 1982, the Foundation established The David T. Langrock Old Masters Art Fund, which promotes classical art and the study of classical art in the Greater New Haven area. The Langrock Building has housed many businesses over the years.
The Ira Frost House, at 1070 Marion Avenue in Southington, was built c. 1860-c. 1880. An L-shaped Italianate house, it is currently for sale.
The Congregational Society in Riverton was formed in 1842. Its members first sought to purchase the Episcopal Church building, constructed in 1829, whose trustees were in financial difficulties at the time. When the negotiations proved unsuccessful, the congregation constructed its own church edifice in 1843 on Robertsville Road, a wood-framed Greek Revival-style structure. Built by Willard S. Wetmore of Winsted, it was an exact copy of the Baptist Church in Canton, built in 1807.
After crossing the Housatonic River from Derby to Shelton, there are factories on either side of Bridge Street. The factory on the north side displays the date 1892. On the 1919 “Aero View of Shelton, Connecticut” published by Hughes & Bailey, the factory (located at 9 Bridge Street) is labeled the Robert N. Bassett Co., Inc., “Brass, Steel and Wire Specialties.” The company had begun across the river in Birmingham (now Derby) producing wire corsets. The upper two stories of the mill were added in 1912. The structure was later called the Birmingham Building.
At 519 Orange Street in New Haven is a Greek Revival-style house built in 1851. The house is called the Susan Sheridan House. This may be Susan Smith Sheridan, the first educator in the New Haven Public Schools to earn a doctorate degree. A school on Fountain Street in New Haven was also named in her honor.
The house at 256 Palisado Avenue in Windsor was built in 1767 for Elijah Mather, Sr. (1743-1796). The house has a hipped roof and an impressive classical entry with entablature that is probably original.
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