Nicholas Callahan House (1762)

Dated to 1762 or 1776, the Nicholas Callahan House, on Elm Street in New Haven, faces New Haven Green and is located between the First Methodist Church and Hendrie Hall. Callahan was a loyalist and during the Revolutionary War the house became a meeting place known as Tory Tavern. It was eventually confiscated by the town in 1781. The two-story porch around the house’s front entrance was added in the later nineteenth century and altered again in the twentieth in the Federal style. In 1910, the house was acquired by Elihu, a Yale Senior Society. The following year, the house was remodeled by Everett V. Meeks, who was the head of Yale’s Department of Architecture and later the Dean of Yale’s School of Fine Arts from 1920 to 1947