Built c. 1860-1865, the William J. Clark House is an Italianate-style residence in the Plantsville section of Southington. It originally stood on the southeast corner of Main and South Main Streets, but was later moved to 40 Cowles Street. William J. Clark established the Clark Brothers Bolt Company with his brothers Charles and Henry.
The house at 346 Main Street South in Woodbury was built between 1751 and 1757, with a larger addition dating to the 1760s. Cyrus Lee, the original owner, operated a tavern in the house and a subsequent owner, Captain Isaac Tomlinson, built an addition which served as an inn and tavern and had a second-floor ball room. Julia Marshall, the next owner, had a bar room on the premises. The use of the house for business purposes continued in the twentieth century and, from the 1940s, it housed antiques shops under several owners. The house has a large addition, with separate living quarters, built in 2000. Today the house is home to The joannajohn Collection.
On the northeast corner of New Haven Green, at 205 Church Street, is the Union and New Haven Trust Building, built in 1927-1928. It was designed by Cross and Cross of New York to reflect the architecture of the three churches on the Green. The cupola mirrors that of United Church on the Green. The Union Trust Company moved its headquarters to Stamford in 1981, but a branch office was maintained on the ground floor of the building. After various acquisitions and mergers it is now a Wells Fargo branch. The above picture was taken when the building was undergoing restoration work.
At 41 West Main Street in Meriden is a building which is faced with limestone and has elaborate Classical detailing. It was built in 1923 for the Meriden Electric Light Company and today houses a law office and a bail bond company (the building is across the street from a courthouse).
The building which now serves as Simsbury’s third Town Hall was built in 1907 as Simsbury High School. The building’s design, by Edward Hapgood of Hartford, is believed to follow that of Homerton College, Cambridge University. When the high school, moved to a new building in the 1960s, the old building became Horace Belden Elementary School. It was renovated in 1993-1994 to become Simsbury Town Hall.
Next to the William Albertson House, on Vauxhall Street in New London, is a Greek Revival house built by Thomas Fitch in 1846. Fitch was a developer who laid out streets and sold house lots in the Post Hill area of New London. In 1862, Fitch sold his house to Hiram Willey, who served as mayor of New London from 1862 to 1865. Willey sold the property in 1875 to Thomas M. Waller, who also served as mayor (1873-1879) and later as Governor of Connecticut (1883-1884). While Waller owned the house, the front door facing Channing Street was moved to face Vauxhall Street. Further alterations (in the Colonial Revival style) were made to the house in 1913 by Waller’s son, Charles B. Waller.
Christ Church in New Haven is an Episcopal Church founded in 1854 as a mission of Trinity Church. While Trinity Church is located in the center of town on New Haven Green, the first Christ Church was erected on the edge of town, in an area called Poverty Square near the almshouse and the town farm. Christ Church became a parish in 1856 and today continues the Anglo-Catholic worship and dedication to the city’s poor and dispossessed that have been hallmarks of the parish since its founding. The parish’s current Gothic church, at 84 Broadway, was built in 1898. It was designed by Henry Vaughan and the interior has intricate mahogany carvings by the Bavarian-born sculptor Johannes Kirchmayer. The church‘s stone tower is modeled on that of Magdalen College, Oxford. (more…)
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