The Arts and Crafts or American Craftsman style of house was popular at the start of the twentieth century. The house at 168 Buckingham Street in Waterbury, built around 1910, displays a number of Arts and Crafts features, including wide bracketed eaves, a low pitched front gable roof, and the use of mixed materials, in this case represented by the different exterior siding seen on each floor. The house may have been built by the Tracy Brothers construction company of Waterbury, because it was built for Edward Ely Wilson, a vice-president at the firm. According to Volume III of History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley (1918), Wilson came to Waterbury in 1888 and “and became foreman of the shop of the Tracy Brothers Company. His ability won him immediate advancement and led to his admission to a partnership. Upon the incorporation of the business he was chosen vice president and so continues. […] He is today an officer in one of the foremost contracting firms of the city with a patronage that makes its business one of large volume and importance.”
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