Luzon B. Morris was a governor of Connecticut for two years, 1893-1895. He died the year he left office. His house in New Haven was built in 1873 on Prospect Street. It is an Italianate-style house featuring elements of the Stick style. It was purchased by Yale in 1957 and restored in 1990. The building is home to the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.
The William Trowbridge House is an 1871 Italianate-style home, located on Prospect Street in New Haven. Trowbridge was a Yale professor of dynamic engineering in the 1870s. His family continued to live in the house after his death. It was acquired by Yale in 1984.
The Henchman S. Soule House, on Chapel Street in New Haven, is late Greek Revival-style house near Wooster Square. Soule was a sea captain. In 1862, he sold the house to Henry S. Parmalee, a piano maker, founder of the New Haven Trolley line and inventor of the first practical automatic sprinkler system, which he had installed in both his factory and his home. The house was restored in 1999 and is now a bed-and-breakfast known as the Historic Mansion Inn.
An extravagant Italian villa-style house was constructed in 1862 for John S. Graves, secretary and treasurer of the New Haven Gas Company, on Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven. In 1877, it became the home of James M.B. Dwight. The house, which is now owned by Yale, represents a late evolution of the Italianate style in New Haven and was restored in 1994.
Originally constructed on Yale’s Old Campus in 1842-46 to serve as a library, Dwight Hall and Chapel was converted in 1931 to contain the Dwight Memorial Chapel, honoring Timothy Dwight. An early example of the Gothic Revival style, it was Yale’s first Gothic building and is currently Yale’s second oldest surviving building. It was designed by Henry Austin and in 1931, after the library had moved to a new building, its interior was remodeled by Charles Z. Klauder. The building is home to the organization known as Dwight Hall (formerly the Yale University Christian Association), which will be moving to a different building in 2010.
In front of the Chapel is a statue of former Yale President Theodore Dwight Woolsey.
Skull and Bones, Yale’s oldest secret society, has a Greek Revival-style building on High Street in New Haven. The Skull and Bones tomb was built in 1856, with a rear addition constructed in 1882. In 1902-03, the north wing (to the right of the front door) was added as a mirror image of the south wing. It is uncertain which architect designed the building–possibly Alexander Jackson Davis or Henry Austin.
Designed by James Gamble Rogers, New Haven’s Post Office and Federal District Court building was completed on New Haven Green in 1913. It’s Neoclassical design features an especially long and flattened Greek-style columned portico, designed by Rogers to fit in with the need for an extended facade in a crowded urban area. It succeeds in making an impression with its dignified presence.