In 1852, Guilford builder William Weld constructed an Italianate house (possibly based on a design by Henry Austin) on Boston Street for his brother, the whaling captain Frederick Alonzo Weld, who was captain of the Italy out of Greenport, Long Island. Capt. Weld died in 1893 and a memorial epitaph, written by Henry Pynchon Robinson, was published in Guilford Portraits (1907).
The Benjamin Bradley House, on Boston Street in Guilford, is an Italian-style villa built in 1860. Benjamin Bradley was the son of Benjamin Bradley and Juliana Leete. The house’s builder was William E. Weld, who also constructed the very similar house of Julie Labadie on Whitfield Street. It has been suggested the that house may have been designed by New Haven architect Henry Austin (see A Treasury of Guilford Places (2008), by Joel Eliot Helander, p. 270).