National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven, Connecticut facts for kids
This is a list of National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven, Connecticut.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of New Haven, Connecticut, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
There are 270 properties and districts listed on the National Register in New Haven County. The city of New Haven is the location of 68 of these properties and districts, including 9 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the other properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county, including 1 National Historic Landmark, are covered in National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut. Three sites appear in both New Haven County lists.
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Current listings
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Location | Neighborhood | Description | |
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| 1 | Ahavas Sholem Synagogue |
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(#95000559) |
30 White St. 41°17′54″N 72°56′25″W / 41.298333°N 72.940278°W |
Hill | A former synagogue whose elaborate facade demonstrates "design effort directed, with considerable success, toward establishing a Jewish presence in the streetscape." |
| 2 | Armstrong Rubber Company Building |
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(#100006451) |
500 Sargent Dr. 41°17′48″N 72°55′07″W / 41.2967°N 72.9185°W |
Long Wharf | Noted example of brutalism by architect Marcel Breuer |
| 3 | M. Armstrong and Company Carriage Factory |
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(#11000612) |
433 Chapel St. 41°18′13″N 72°54′44″W / 41.303611°N 72.912222°W |
Fair Haven | Historic 19th century carriage factory building |
| 4 | Beaver Hills Historic District |
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(#86002108) |
Roughly bounded by Crescent St., Goffe Terrace, and Boulevard 41°19′28″N 72°56′39″W / 41.324444°N 72.944167°W |
Beaver Hills | This neighborhood was developed in the early 1900s and was one of the first car-oriented neighborhoods in the region. It preserves Colonial Revival and other residential architecture. |
| 5 | Beth Israel Synagogue |
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(#95000578) |
232 Orchard St. 41°17′54″N 72°56′25″W / 41.298333°N 72.940278°W |
West River | A Colonial Revival building from 1925, designed by architect Louis Abramowitz for the orthodox synagogue. |
| 6 | Elisha Blackman Building |
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(#78002863) |
176 York St. 41°18′29″N 72°55′57″W / 41.308056°N 72.9325°W |
Downtown | Built in 1883 as an investment by a former carriage manufacturer, the building was the first commercial + rental building in a residential area with very fine design and workmanship. |
| 7 | Chapel Street Historic District |
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(#84001123) |
Roughly bounded by Park, Chapel, Temple, George, and Crown Sts. 41°18′20″N 72°55′47″W / 41.305556°N 72.929722°W |
Downtown and Dwight | A historic district representing the commercial development of New Haven in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
| 8 | Russell Henry Chittenden House |
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(#75001944) |
83 Trumbull St. 41°18′48″N 72°55′23″W / 41.313333°N 72.923056°W |
Prospect Hill | Home of Russell Henry Chittenden, the "father of American biochemistry", from 1887 to 1943. The irregularly shaped three story house with Queen Anne elements was built in 1887 of brick, frame and shingling with gabled roof sections, gabled dormers, interior chimneys with corbeled caps, a square corner tower and a round-arched first-floor window. |
| 9 | Christ Church New Haven |
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(#09000420) |
70 Broadway 41°18′44″N 72°55′56″W / 41.31225°N 72.932269°W |
Dixwell (in Broadway district) |
Episcopal parish church, begun as an offshoot from New Haven's Trinity Church, the central Episcopal church on New Haven's town green. This Gothic building, completed in 1898, was designed by architect Henry Vaughan and includes a stone tower in the style of one at the University of Oxford. |
| 10 | Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station |
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(#66000805) |
123 Huntington St. 41°19′51″N 72°55′10″W / 41.330833°N 72.919444°W |
Prospect Hill | Home of the first agricultural experiment station in the United States. It was started in 1875 in Middletown and moved to New Haven in 1877. Its Osborne Library, built during 1882-83, is oldest building of any such station. Located at top of Prospect Hill, the station was the center of early research on vitamins. |
| 11 | Connecticut Hall, Yale University |
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(#66000806) |
Bounded by High, Chapel, Elm, and College Sts. 41°18′29″N 72°55′46″W / 41.308056°N 72.929444°W |
Downtown | Georgian-style building from 1752 that is the oldest Yale University building and only survivor of the original Old Brick Row. Funded originally in part from the sale of a French ship, it was gutted and rebuilt in the 1950's. |
| 12 | John Cook House |
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(#83003576) |
35 Elm St. 41°18′26″N 72°55′21″W / 41.307222°N 72.9225°W |
Downtown | One of the oldest stone buildings in New Haven, the house has unusual sandstone quoining and a ballroom on the 3rd floor. Adjacent to the 1828 Caroline Nicoll House. |
| 13 | George W. Crawford House |
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(#15000113) |
84–96 Park St. 41°18′24″N 72°56′07″W / 41.3066°N 72.9354°W |
Dwight | Brutalist apartment house designed by Paul Rudolph |
| 14 | Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ |
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(#100003148) |
217 Dixwell Ave. 41°19′08″N 72°56′02″W / 41.3190°N 72.9339°W |
Dixwell | Brutalist structure designed by John M. Johansen and home to historic African American congregation |
| 15 | James Dwight Dana House |
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(#66000874) |
24 Hillhouse Ave. 41°18′47″N 72°55′30″W / 41.313056°N 72.925°W |
Downtown | Home of Yale geologist, James Dwight Dana; designed by Henry Austin |
| 16 | Dwight Street Historic District |
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(#83001281) |
Roughly bounded by Park, N. Frontage, Scranton, Sherman, and Elm Sts. 41°18′38″N 72°56′23″W / 41.310556°N 72.939722°W |
Dwight and West River | Historic district with well-preserved 19th and early 20th century residential architecture |
| 17 | East Rock Park |
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(#97000299) |
Roughly bounded by State, Davis, and Livingston Sts., Park and Mitchell Drs., and Whitney Ave. 41°19′41″N 72°54′21″W / 41.328056°N 72.905833°W |
East Rock and Hamden | Designed by the Olmsted Brothers, this park includes East Rock Ridge and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. |
| 18 | Edgerton |
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(#88001469) |
840 Whitney Ave. 41°20′04″N 72°54′52″W / 41.334361°N 72.914333°W |
Prospect Hill | This 20-acre (8.1 ha) historic district is a public park, the site of the estate of Frederick F. Brewster, the industrialist. The 1909 mansion was demolished in 1964 leaving the gatehouse, carriage house, greenhouses, other structures, and landscaped grounds. Extends into Hamden, elsewhere in New Haven County |
| 19 | Edgewood Park Historic District |
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(#86001991) |
Roughly bounded by Whalley Ave. and Elm St., Sherman Ave. and Boulevard, Edgewood and Derby, and Yale Aves. 41°18′55″N 72°57′16″W / 41.315278°N 72.954444°W |
Edgewood, Westville, and West River | Historic residential neighborhood with late 19th century Queen Anne and colonial revival structures. |
| 20 | Farmington Canal-New Haven and Northampton Canal |
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(#85002664) |
Roughly from Suffield in Hartford County to New Haven in New Haven County 41°19′26″N 72°55′51″W / 41.323889°N 72.930778°W |
Newhallville, Dixwell, and Downtown | Extends northward through Hamden and Cheshire (other towns in New Haven County) to Hartford County. Built as a canal, later became a railroad line, and now a multi-use trail. |
| 21 | Five Mile Point Lighthouse |
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(#90001108) |
Lighthouse Point Park 41°14′56″N 72°54′14″W / 41.248889°N 72.903889°W |
East Shore | Octagonal lighthouse built in 1847. |
| 22 | Fort Nathan Hale |
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(#70000711) |
Southern end of Woodward Ave. 41°16′12″N 72°53′55″W / 41.27°N 72.898611°W |
East Shore | Site of forts dating from the colonial era through the Civil War. |
| 23 | Goffe Street Special School for Colored Children |
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(#79002643) |
106 Goffe St. 41°18′56″N 72°56′06″W / 41.315556°N 72.935°W |
Dixwell | Permanent school that grew out of a meeting of New Haven citizens in 1864. New Haven architect Henry Austin donated the design. Used as a school until 1874 when African-American children began attending previously all white public schools. The building was then used by African-American community organizations. |
| 24 | Grove Street Cemetery |
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(#97000830) |
200 Grove St. 41°18′49″N 72°55′39″W / 41.313611°N 72.9275°W |
Downtown | Final resting place of many Yale and New Haven notables including Roger Sherman, Noah Webster and Eli Whitney. |
| 25 | Hall-Benedict Drug Company Building |
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(#86001205) |
763–767 Orange St. 41°19′16″N 72°54′45″W / 41.321111°N 72.9125°W |
East Rock | Well-preserved commercial building from 1909. |
| 26 | Hillhouse Avenue Historic District |
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(#85002507) |
Bounded by Sachem, Temple, Trumbull, and Prospect Sts., Whitney and Hillhouse Aves., and railroad tracks 41°18′50″N 72°55′23″W / 41.313889°N 72.923056°W |
Prospect Hill and Downtown | Historic street with landmark nineteenth century mansions. |
| 27 | Elizabeth R. Hooker House |
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(#09000695) |
123 Edgehill Rd. 41°19′58″N 72°55′00″W / 41.332697°N 72.916717°W |
Prospect Hill | English style Arts and Crafts suburban villa designed by Delano & Aldrich and built in 1914 for the progressive activist, Elizabeth R. Hooker. |
| 28 | Howard Avenue Historic District |
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(#85002308) |
Properties along Howard Ave. between Interstate 95 and Washington St. 41°17′31″N 72°55′59″W / 41.291944°N 72.933056°W |
Hill (including City Point) |
Well-preserved late 19th century vernacular architecture. |
| 29 | Imperial Granum-Joseph Parker Buildings |
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(#86000409) |
47 and 49–51 Elm St. 41°18′27″N 72°55′23″W / 41.3075°N 72.923056°W |
Downtown | Fine pair of commercial buildings from the office of Henry Austin. |
| 30 | Lighthouse Point Carousel |
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(#83003578) |
Lighthouse Point Park, Lighthouse Ave. 41°14′54″N 72°54′12″W / 41.248333°N 72.903333°W |
East Shore | Early 20th century historic carousel in renaissance revival building. |
| 31 | Lincoln Theatre |
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(#84001134) |
1 Lincoln St. 41°18′43″N 72°55′12″W / 41.311944°N 72.92°W |
Downtown | 1925 theatre with English free style facade |
| 32 | Othniel C. Marsh House |
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(#66000875) |
360 Prospect St. 41°19′19″N 72°55′30″W / 41.321944°N 72.925°W |
Prospect Hill | Home of Yale paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh; now part of the Yale School of Forestry. |
| 33 | Lafayette B. Mendel House |
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(#76002138) |
18 Trumbull St. 41°18′39″N 72°55′07″W / 41.310833°N 72.918611°W |
Downtown | Home of Yale biochemist Lafayette Mendel; designed by Henry Austin |
| 34 | Dr. Mary B. Moody House |
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(#100000930) |
154 E. Grand Ave. 41°18′23″N 72°52′55″W / 41.306525°N 72.881821°W |
Fair Haven Heights | Home of physician Mary Blair Moody |
| 35 | Morris Cove Historic District |
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(#100002320) |
Between Dean & Myron Sts., Morris Causeway & Townsend Ave. 41°15′52″N 72°53′41″W / 41.264315°N 72.894725°W |
East Shore | Seasonal resort and streetcar suburb with early 20th century residential architecture. |
| 36 | Morris House |
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(#72001341) |
325 Lighthouse Rd. 41°15′17″N 72°53′46″W / 41.2548°N 72.8960°W |
East Shore | One of New Haven's oldest surviving buildings |
| 37 | Mory's |
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(#04001552) |
306 York St. 41°18′41″N 72°55′54″W / 41.311389°N 72.931667°W |
Dixwell (in Broadway district) |
Storied private club adjacent to Yale University. |
| 38 | New Haven City Hall |
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(#75001940) |
161 Church St. 41°18′26″N 72°55′29″W / 41.307222°N 72.924722°W |
Downtown | Victorian Gothic structure designed by Henry Austin |
| 39 | New Haven Armory |
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(#100006556) |
270 Goffe St. 41°19′07″N 72°56′21″W / 41.3187°N 72.9391°W |
Dixwell | Massive Romanesque revival built from 1928 to 1930. |
| 39 | New Haven Clock Company Factory |
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(#100000761) |
133 Hamilton St. 41°18′26″N 72°54′45″W / 41.307085°N 72.912472°W |
Wooster Square | Originally a 14-building complex built in the 19th century. |
| 40 | New Haven County Courthouse |
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(#03000404) |
121 Elm St. 41°18′38″N 72°55′27″W / 41.310556°N 72.924167°W |
Downtown | Beaux Arts building from 1917, facing on New Haven Green, and containing "several of the city's grandest interior spaces". |
| 41 | New Haven Green Historic District |
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(#70000838) |
Bounded by Chapel, College, Elm, and Church Sts. 41°18′27″N 72°55′37″W / 41.3075°N 72.926944°W |
Downtown | Large town green includes three historic churches. |
| 42 | New Haven Jewish Home for the Aged |
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(#79002641) |
169 Davenport Ave. 41°18′09″N 72°56′23″W / 41.3025°N 72.939722°W |
Hill | Historic nursing home with Beaux Arts styling. |
| 43 | New Haven Lawn Club |
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(#03000309) |
193 Whitney Ave. 41°18′57″N 72°55′10″W / 41.315833°N 72.919444°W |
East Rock | The clubhouse, designed by Douglas Orr, combines elements of Colonial Revival and Art Moderne styles. |
| 44 | New Haven Railroad Station |
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(#75001941) |
Union Ave. 41°17′51″N 72°55′37″W / 41.2975°N 72.926944°W |
Long Wharf | Beaux-arts station designed by Cass Gilbert |
| 45 | Caroline Nicoll House |
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(#83001283) |
27 Elm St. 41°18′27″N 72°55′19″W / 41.3075°N 72.921861°W |
Downtown | 1828 Federal/Greek Revival townhouse; adjacent to the John Cook House. |
| 46 | Ninth Square Historic District |
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(#84001135) |
Roughly bounded by Church, State, George, and Court Sts. 41°18′17″N 72°55′28″W / 41.304722°N 72.924444°W |
Downtown | Historic commercial district with 19th and early 20th century buildings. |
| 47 | Orange Street Historic District |
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(#85002314) |
Roughly bounded by Whitney Ave., State, Eagle, and Trumbull Sts.; also portions of Anderson, Canner, Cottage, Eagle, Foster, Nash, Nicoll, North Bank & Willow Sts. 41°18′56″N 72°54′55″W / 41.315556°N 72.915278°W |
East Rock | Well-preserved 19th century residential buildings; the second set of addresses represent a boundary increase approved July 24, 2017. |
| 48 | Oyster Point Historic District |
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(#89001085) |
Roughly bounded by Interstate 95, S. Water St., Howard Ave., Sea St., and Greenwich Ave. 41°16′59″N 72°55′47″W / 41.283056°N 72.929722°W |
Hill (City Point section) |
Oystering district (until 1925) with distinctive oystermen's houses. |
| 49 | William Pinto House |
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(#85002316) |
275 Orange St. 41°18′29″N 72°55′21″W / 41.308056°N 72.9225°W |
Downtown | 1810 Gablefront federal house; home to Eli Whitney. |
| 50 | Plymouth Congregational Church |
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(#83001250) |
1469 Chapel St. 41°18′41″N 72°56′40″W / 41.311389°N 72.944444°W |
Dwight | Late 19th century brownstone Romanesque Revival former church. After damage, the building was gutted and rebuilt for offices. |
| 51 | Prospect Hill Historic District |
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(#79002670) |
Area between Whitney Avenue and Winchester Avenue north of Edwards Street/Munson Street 41°19′30″N 72°55′15″W / 41.325°N 72.920833°W |
Prospect Hill and Dixwell | Area of historic mansions and some institutional buildings |
| 52 | Quinnipiac Brewery |
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(#83001285) |
19-23 River St. 41°18′14″N 72°53′37″W / 41.303889°N 72.893611°W |
Fair Haven | Factory complex dominated by six story Romanesque revival main building. |
| 53 | Quinnipiac River Historic District |
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(#84001139) |
Roughly bounded by Quinnipiac Ave., Lexington, Chapel, Ferry, Pine, Front, and Lombard Sts. 41°18′35″N 72°52′59″W / 41.309722°N 72.883056°W |
Fair Haven and Fair Haven Heights | Historic maritime village dating from the 18th century. |
| 54 | Raynham |
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(#80004062) |
709 Townsend Ave. 41°16′34″N 72°53′42″W / 41.276111°N 72.895°W |
East Shore | Gothic revival mansion and surrounding estate. |
| 55 | River Street Historic District |
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(#88003213) |
Roughly bounded by Chapel St., Blatchley Ave., New Haven Harbor, and James St. 41°18′08″N 72°54′04″W / 41.302222°N 72.901111°W |
Fair Haven | Industrial district with a historic focus on metalworking businesses. |
| 56 | Southern New England Telephone Company Administrative Building |
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(#97001447) |
227 Church St. 41°18′33″N 72°55′25″W / 41.309167°N 72.923611°W |
Downtown | Art Deco building designed by Douglas Orr |
| 57 | Southwest Ledge Lighthouse |
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(#89001475) |
Southwestern end of the east breakwater at the entrance to New Haven Harbor 41°13′53″N 72°55′25″W / 41.231389°N 72.923611°W |
New Haven Harbor | Completed in 1877, this lighthouse with Second Empire style architecture above, was the first or one of the first built on a cylindrical iron foundation, an innovation to address shifting ice that is regarded as very important in lighthouse design. |
| 58 | St. Luke's Episcopal Church |
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(#03001170) |
111-113 Whalley Ave. 41°18′51″N 72°56′09″W / 41.314167°N 72.935833°W |
Dixwell | 1905 Gothic revival structure built for an African American congregation founded in 1844. |
| 59 | Strouse, Adler Company Corset Factory |
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(#02000864) |
78-84 Olive St. 41°18′20″N 72°55′11″W / 41.305556°N 72.919722°W |
Wooster Square | Historic factory complex built between 1876 and 1923. |
| 60 | Trowbridge Square Historic District |
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(#85002311) |
Roughly bounded by Columbus and Howard Aves. 41°17′47″N 72°55′55″W / 41.296389°N 72.931944°W |
Hill | Well-preserved 19th century working-class neighborhood. |
| 61 | United States Post Office and Court House |
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(#15000586) |
145 Church St. 41°18′24″N 72°55′30″W / 41.3066°N 72.9249°W |
Downtown | Monumental 1919 classical revival courthouse clad in Tennessee marble. |
| 62 | Upper State Street Historic District |
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(#84001143) |
Roughly State St. from Bradley St. to Mill River St. 41°18′53″N 72°54′41″W / 41.314722°N 72.911389°W |
East Rock | Historic late-19th century commercial district. |
| 63 | Welch Training School |
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(#83001286) |
495 Congress Ave. 41°18′04″N 72°56′15″W / 41.301111°N 72.9375°W |
Hill | Queen Anne style school designed by Leoni W. Robinson |
| 64 | Westville Village Historic District |
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(#02001727) |
Roughly along Blake St. and Whalley Ave.; also 827 Whalley Ave. 41°19′38″N 72°57′32″W / 41.327222°N 72.958889°W |
Westville and West Rock | Area of commercial buildings and more. 827 Whalley represents a boundary increase of October 25, 2006 |
| 65 | Whitney Avenue Historic District |
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(#88003209) |
Roughly bounded by Burns St., Livingston St., Cold Spring St., Orange St., Bradley St., and Whitney Ave. 41°19′23″N 72°54′53″W / 41.323056°N 72.914722°W |
East Rock and Prospect Hill | A middle- and upper-class residential neighborhood that showcases Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Shingle, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and other architecture. |
| 66 | Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District |
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(#87002552) |
Roughly bounded by Hamden town line, Mansfield, Hazel & Division Sts., Winchester Ave., and Sherman Parkway 41°19′16″N 72°55′55″W / 41.321111°N 72.931944°W |
Newhallville and Dixwell | Historic district including Leoni W. Robinson-designed buildings of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and surrounding areas of single- and multi-family workers' houses. |
| 67 | Wooster Square Historic District |
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(#71000914) |
Roughly bounded by Columbus, Wooster Sq., Chapel St., and Court St. 41°18′16″N 72°55′05″W / 41.304444°N 72.918056°W |
Wooster Square | 19th century residential neighborhood centered around Wooster Square Park restored and preserved starting in the late 1950s. |
| 68 | Yale Bowl |
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(#87000756) |
Southwest of the intersection of Chapel St. and Yale Ave. 41°18′46″N 72°57′39″W / 41.312778°N 72.960833°W |
Westville | Bowl stadium, model for the Rose Bowl and others. Home of Yale Bulldogs football and The Game. |
Former building
| Name on the Register | Image | Date listed | Date removed | Location | Neighborhood | Summary | |
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| 1 | First Telephone Exchange |
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(#66000961) |
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733 Chapel Street 41°18′16″N 72°55′17″W / 41.3045°N 72.9215°W |
Downtown | Former National Historic Landmark. Location of the First Telephone Exchange in the United States. Demolished in 1973 to make way for a parking garage. |
See also
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