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Whitney Avenue Historic District

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In summary, the district is distinguished by its exceptional number of architecturally significant houses; the wide, shady, tree-lined streets which provide an appropriate setting for those houses; and by the high proportion of buildings which have retained their integrity of materials and design.
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is significant as a well-preserved middle and upper-class residential neighborhood which reflects the process of suburbanization in New Haven during the late 19th and early 20th centuries...and which has retained its integrity with few intrusions or alterations.... The houses in the district embody
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The district includes 749 "major" buildings: mostly houses but also schools, small commercial buildings, and a firehouse. Including smaller outbuildings such as garages and carriage houses, there were a total of 1,113 buildings in 1989. Besides the 1,084 contributing buildings, the district then
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There are apartment buildings mixed into the housing stock, particularly of U-shaped forms and particularly along Whitney Avenue. Examples appear in photos 16 and 29 (Brighton Court, in Spanish Colonial Revival, c.1915, at 663-667 Whitney Avenue) of accompanying photo collection.
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Institutional purposes are now served by many of the buildings built originally as mansions along Whitney Avenue. At the time of the National Register listing, there were ten churches in the district, four of which were deemed to be
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Per the NRHP nomination, small commercial buildings or "houses which have been fitted with storefronts", primarily at corners or along Orange Avenue are included in, and serve, the district. An unusual example is the
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included 29 non-contributing buildings. Since that time, some of the contributing buildings have been demolished, such as some garages behind houses, but the character of the district is generally preserved.
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neighborhood of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. The row of properties on the west side of Whitney Avenue is officially in the Prospect Hill neighborhood planning area.
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Ray Reigeluth House, at 340 Livingston Street, from 1928–29, which represents an "apogee" of revival, being an exact copy of the Julius Deming House on North Street in the
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Together these attributes create the sense of historic and architectural cohesiveness which makes this area a distinctive cultural resource.
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There are significant Tudor Revival houses including, for example, the Dr. Edwin Butler House, at 640 Whitney Avenue, from 1913.
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the distinctive characteristics of several periods and types of domestic architecture, including locally outstanding examples of
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Other assorted styles are represented, including, notably, the Colin Ingersoll House at 475 Whitney Avenue, a spectacular
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houses include the William Allen House, at 357 Whitney Avenue, a principal example among a row of Queen Anne houses.
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Roughly bounded by Burns St., Livingston St., Cold Spring St., Orange St., Bradley St., and Whitney Ave.,
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on the east. Yale University facilities border on the southwest and south. The district is named after
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
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Atwater-Ciampolini House, 321 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, New Haven County, CT
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Large mansions are primarily along Whitney Avenue and Livingston Street.
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Accompanying 32 photos from 1988 (captions pages 60-62 of text document)
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List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places
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The Masonic Temple building, at 285 Whitney, is a brick, three-story
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Louis Ullman House, 1916, at 294 Livingston (accompanying photo #9)
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519 Whitney Avenue, at the corner of Canner Street (pictured above)
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style, brick and terra cotta, (photo 1 in accompanying photos)|
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National Register of Historic Places in New Haven, Connecticut
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style (see Photo 3 in accompanying photo collection)|
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William E. Devlin and Bruce Clouette (June 9, 1988).
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Maeller House, 591 Whitney Avenue 228:National Register of Historic Places 788: 664: 603:Hall-Benedict Drug Company Building 13: 1281:National Historic Preservation Act 819:Historic American Buildings Survey 796:"Whitney Avenue Historic District" 445:Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church 14: 1370: 806: 1323: 1322: 1311: 813:Whitney Avenue Historic District 524:Gothic style church designed by 208:Whitney Avenue Historic District 109: 102: 84: 77: 35:Whitney Avenue Historic District 831:, 608 Whitney Avenue, New Haven 798:. New Haven Preservation Trust. 784:. New Haven Preservation Trust. 391:building designed by architect 255:Orange Street Historic District 251:Prospect Hill Historic District 1234:Federated States of Micronesia 880:Architectural style categories 185: 1: 657: 630:Relationship to neighborhoods 533:St. Thomas's Episcopal Church 118:Show map of the United States 482:St. Joseph's Catholic Church 367:Litchfield Historic District 249:on the north. 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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Whitney Avenue Historic District is located in Connecticut
Whitney Avenue Historic District is located in the United States
New Haven, Connecticut
41°19′23″N 72°54′53″W / 41.32306°N 72.91472°W / 41.32306; -72.91472
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historic district
East Rock
New Haven, Connecticut
contributing buildings
National Register of Historic Places

Edgerton Park
East Rock Park
Prospect Hill Historic District
Orange Street Historic District
Whitney Avenue
Queen Anne
Colonial Revival
Tudor Revival

Atwater-Ciampolini House
HABS
Queen Anne style
Shingle style
Charles Atwater House
Babb, Cook and Willard
J. Frederick Kelly

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