Located on Chapel Street, in New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood, the Willis Bristol House was designed by New Haven architect Henry Austin. Designed with a basic Italianate shape, the house has elaborate detailing in what has been described as either the Moorish Revival style or a style influenced by the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, which was built in the Indo-Saracenic style. Yale has original plans and illustrations of the house and a there is also a HABS record. The house was built for Willis Bristol, of Bristol & Hall, boot and shoe manufacturers.
Kingsbury-Gatling House (1860)
Built in 1860, on Charter Oak Place in Hartford, for the Kingsbury family. The Kingsbury House was later owned by Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling Gun, the first successful machine gun. A rear addition in the Moorish Revival style was later added to the original Italianate House. This rear section had to be rebuilt after a fire in 1980.
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