Ivesville Historic District
Background Report for
Study Committee
Prepared by:
James Sexton, Ph.D., 2 October 2009
Updated 10 March 2014
Introduction
Ivesville has an important place in the history of Hamden. It is a physical
reminder of the town’s 19th-century industrial history. Starting as an agrarian
neighborhood in the 18th century, the area blossomed into an industrial village in
the 19th century providing, among other things, parts for New Haven’s booming
carriage industry. At the heart of this transformation was the Ives family,
especially James Ives. By the end of the 19th century the industry was waning
and the community began a gradual transition into the modern suburban
neighborhood that one sees today.
The town’s government recognized the important place of Ivesville in the town’s
history when they appointed the Ivesville Local Historic District Study Committee
in 2006 to examine the feasibility of establishing a historic district to protect this
community asset.1
As part of its responsibilities, the Local Historic District Committee is expected to
produce a report on the proposed historic district. Local Historic District Study
Committee reports are expected to have several parts:
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A boundary description of the proposed district;
A map showing district outline and included properties;
Text describing historical and architectural significance, along with
photographs of all buildings and properties;
An inventory list of properties within the proposed district and names of the
current property owners.
This report includes all of the above information.
The historic district approval process allows for full public participation. Once this
report is approved by the Hamden Planning and Zoning Commission, it will be
made available to all property owners in the proposed district. A public hearing
will then be held, so that the concerns of property owners and other town
residents can be voiced in a public forum. Following this hearing, ballots will be
mailed to property owners within the proposed district. Two-thirds (66%) of the
property owners must vote affirmatively for the district to be approved. After final
approval by the town council, a historic district commission will be appointed and
an ordinance establishing the district will be entered in the town’s land records.2
1
This is the second time that the Town of Hamden has sought to create an Ivesville Local
Historic District; the first was in 1989. This report has relied heavily on the work of the previous
Study Committee, especially the excellent report for that undertaking prepared by the earlier
Study Committee and based on the research of Martha Becker and Lisa Margolin. [This report will
be abbreviated LHD Report (1989) in subsequent references.]
2 The above text is adapted from that used in the Unionville Historic District Study Report.
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District Summary
The proposed district is in the northern portion of Hamden, in the neighborhood
known as Mt. Carmel, approximately two miles northeast of the Hamden
Government Center. The district includes 23 separate parcels of land. It runs
from east of the intersection of Ives Street and Whitney Avenue along Ives Street
to the intersection with Westerly Drive. Properties on both sides of Ives Street
are included. The proposed district also includes the southern section of Spruce
Bank Road and Broadway from Ives Street to the right-of-way for the Route 40
Connector. It includes properties on both sides of these roads as well.
Boundary Description (See Sketch Map)
Starting at the midpoint of Spruce Bank Road where it intersects Ives Street
directly east of property now or formerly of the South Central Connecticut
Regional Water Authority where the old sluice gate sits and being 41.406155
degrees N and 72.892733 degrees W; thence proceeding north approximately
212 feet along the midline of Spruce Bank Road to a point directly west of the
northwestern corner of land now or formerly of Thomas H. Styron and Phoebe
Styron; thence proceeding easterly along northern boundary line of said Styron,
187 feet, more or less; thence proceeding south along eastern boundary of land
owned by said Styron, approximately 522 feet; thence proceeding easterly along
northern boundary of land now or formerly of Daniel Cecchetto and Anita
Macagno, approximately 388 feet; thence southwesterly along the eastern
boundary of land of said Cecchetto and Macagno to the midpoint of Ives Street,
approximately 347 feet; thence westerly following the midline of Ives Street 200
feet, more or less, to a point at the northeastern corner of the lot across from
property of said Styron, proceeding south approximately 200 feet to the
southeastern corner, then west approximately 195 feet to the southwest corner,
then north approximately 200 feet to the midline of Ives Street; proceeding west
to the northeastern corner of land now or formerly of Edward F. Hirsch, Jr.;
thence proceeding southerly 189 feet, more or less, along land now or formerly of
the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority; thence proceeding west
about 214 feet to the midline of Broadway; thence south to the northwest corner
of land now or formerly of Lisa Hollin; thence proceeding east approximately 125
feet to the northeastern corner of land now or formerly of Lisa Hollin; thence
proceeding south along the eastern boundary lines of property now or formerly of
Lisa Hollin, Robert A. Nevola, Jr and Lori M. Nevola, and Edward and Sandra
Lee Matte, all in part, to property of Earlene K. and William A. Farrell; thence
proceeding easterly along land now or formerly of Earlene K. and William A.
Farrell, 58 feet, more or less, to land now or formerly of South Central
Connecticut Regional Water Authority; thence proceeding south along the
eastern boundary lines of land now or formerly of Earlene K. and William A.
Farrell, Jill P. Johnson, Bruce M. Bornick and Martha M. Bornick, Florence M.
Fletcher, Cynthia C. Turner, and Ronald Jasensky and Jessica Proto;
proceeding west about 153 feet to the midpoint of Broadway; thence proceeding
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south 110 feet, more or less, along the midline of Broadway to the northwestern
corner of land now or formerly of Sheila McCormick (aka Streeter), then east
approximately 350 feet along northern boundary to northeast corner to land now
or formerly owned by South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority, then
south approximately 105 feet along eastern boundary; thence proceeding west
along southern boundary of land now or formerly of McCormick, 350 feet, more
or less, through the midline of Broadway to a point directly east of the boundary
between property of the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority and
the State of Connecticut right-of-way for the Mount Carmel Connector; thence
proceeding northwesterly along said boundary line to South New Road; thence
proceeding north along South New Road to the southwest corner of land now or
formerly of Dennis Coyle and Sheila E. Coyle; thence proceeding east about 140
feet along southern border of land now or formerly of said Coyle; thence
proceeding north approximately 350 feet to the midline of Ives Street (including
the Elam Ives House); thence proceeding west through the intersection of New
Road and South New Road to the northeast corner of land now or formerly of
Craig B. Henrici and Lauren M. Henrici; thence proceeding southerly about 329
feet along the easterly boundary of line of said Henrici, to land now or formerly of
the Whitney Park at Mt. Carmel Condominium Association, Inc.; thence
proceeding west 90 feet, more or less; thence proceeding northerly 151 feet,
more or less; thence easterly 10 feet, more or less; thence proceeding north 193
feet, more or less, all along land of the Whitney Park at Mt Carmel Condominium
Association, Inc., to the southerly bound of Ives Street, thence proceeding north
to the midline of Ives Street; thence proceeding westerly along the midline of Ives
Street to a point opposite the southwest corner of land now or formerly of
Harland Mayo and Theresa M. Mayo; thence proceeding north approximately
385 feet along land now or formerly of said Mayo, to land now or formerly of
Housing Authority of the Town of Hamden; thence proceeding east along
northern boundary of land owned by said Mayo, 78 feet, more or less, thence
proceeding south along eastern boundary of land approximately 201 feet to the
northwestern corner of land now or formerly of Franz Douskey and Sarah S.
Heath; thence proceeding east along northern boundary of land now or formerly
of said Douskey and Heath, 67 feet, more or less; thence proceeding south about
175 feet along the eastern border of land of said Douskey and Heath to midline
of Ives Street, east through the intersection of New Road and South New Road
to the southwestern corner of land now or formerly of John Bratsis; thence
proceeding north approximately 145 feet along the western boundary of land now
or formerly of said Bratsis; thence proceeding east along the northern border of
land owned by said Bratsis, about 77 feet, and by Quinnipiac University, about
142 feet, to the western boundary of property of South Central Connecticut
Regional Water Authority; thence south approximately 162 feet to the midline of
Ives Street; thence proceeding easterly and northeasterly to the place and point
of beginning.
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Sketch Map of the proposed Ivesville Local Historic District (base map taken from
HamdenGIS.com, grid 2931).
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District Significance
The term “New England village” tends to create images of a bucolic past with
village greens, white churches, and rows of orderly, large houses. While this
19th-century construct has taken hold of the American imagination, it obscures
the reality of the situation in several ways. Colonial communities were never as
neat and tidy as the proponents of the Colonial Revival wanted them to be –
there were greens that were more thicket than open space, churches that were
frequently not painted white (and one might imagine not as pristine as they
become in the Colonial Revival), and houses came in all sizes large and small
and were accompanied by outhouses, pigsties and other noisome dependencies.
But the modern view of the New England village is also limiting because it tends
to focus on 18th-century agrarian communities and neglect the industrial villages
of the 19th century. The proposed Ivesville Historic highlights the important role of
small industrial villages in the history of New England, and the importance of
Ivesville within Hamden.
Historical Significance
The area began, as many small industrial villages did, as an agrarian
neighborhood.3 Evidence for this can be seen in the house that Elam Ives had
constructed on his property near the Mill River in 1790.4 He was joined by his
brother Eber and another farmer across the river at the beginning of the 19 th
century.5
Like many farmers in the era Elam had outside pursuits beyond farming. He
started a freight line of ox teams between New York and Boston during the War
of 1812 and worked on several sections of the New Haven and Northampton
Canal.6 In the town's centennial history his son James credits Elam’s work on
the canal with inspiring him to use the canal, after its failure, as a source of water
for manufacturing.7 This was the first step in transforming the area from a
neighborhood of farms to an industrial village.
Elam Ives is an important figure in the early industrial history of both Hamden
and the region. He is credited by his son with two important firsts: starting
hardware manufacturing in the town, and being the first to mechanize the
production of carriage and harness hardware, contributing to the regional
3
This is a story that is repeated throughout Connecticut, e.g., in the Silvermine area on the
border of Norwalk and New Canaan, or Poverty Hollow in Redding.
4 While this was not the first house constructed in the area, it is the oldest extant house within the
proposed district.
5 Bruce Clouette and Matt Roth, Hamden Historic Resources Inventory Survey (1985), inventory
numbers 216 and 217.
6 William P. Blake, History of the Town of Hamden, Connecticut with an Account of the
Centennial Celebration, June 15, 1886 (New Haven : Price, Lee, 1888), 19, 144-5; LHD Report
(1989), p. 3.
7 Blake, 145.
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carriage production industry that centered on New Haven.8 James, Henry,
Parsons and Jason Ives, four of Elam’s sons, all participated in the carriage
fittings and parts business in Hamden and New Haven, occasionally in
competition with each other.
The Ives family, Charles Brockett and other manufacturers in the area originally
tried to compete with larger and better capitalized industrialists in New Haven like
James Brewster. The lack of financing and the panic of 1837 led the
manufacturers in Hamden and nearby Southington to follow the “American
system” of manufacturing, that is, making parts for assembly elsewhere, in this
case New Haven. 9
In addition to the factories constructed along the Mill River, factory owners built
housing for their workers. The clearest example of this practice in Ivesville is the
five houses to the south of the factory on Broadway. These five buildings were
built in 1836 by Andrew Hall, who owned the factory to the north at that time.
The system of providing small houses was in contrast to the approach taken
elsewhere in Hamden. In Centreville, for example, factory housing was modeled
on the “Lowell System,” with workers housed in large dormitories.10 The mid-19th
century maps and censuses show these houses being occupied and later owned
by factory workers (“mechanics” in the terminology of the day) and laborers.
These workers were predominantly of Irish descent, and many of them may have
come to the area to work on the New Haven and Northampton Canal.11 (See
Figure 1.)
The New Haven and Northampton Canal that had inspired Elam Ives to begin
manufacturing in the area was replaced in 1847 by a railroad running along the
towpath.12 A depot at the end of Ives Street was called Ives Station. (See Figure
2.) By the 1880’s the railroad had been rerouted away from the area. (See
Figure 3.) It was at roughly this time that the neighborhood began to be known as
Ivesville.13 (It appears in the 1886 History of Hamden with this name.)14
The moving of the railroad station farther away from the factories along the Mill
River was one of a series of blows to the industrial heart of Ivesville. The first
attack on the industries in Ivesville came when New Haven’s dominance of the
carriage industry, from which Ivesville took its strength, was severely damaged
by New Haven’s reliance on Southern markets that were destroyed by the Civil
War. Newer methods of manufacturing that relied on coal and steam power were
also making Ivesville’s water-powered industries obsolete. And the markets for
8.Blake,
19, 144-6.
LHD Report (1989), p. 1
10 LHD Report (1989), p. 3.
11 LHD Report (1989) p. 4.
12 Blake, 98.
13 Ives Family History Blog, billives.typepad.com/ives_family_history_blog. Accessed August,
2009.
14 Blake, 222.
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new goods were moving westward with the expanding country; Industries were
following the population in order to be closer to markets.15
As the new century began, Ivesville followed a path that many other industrial
villages in New England took: it became less industrial and more suburban. By
the middle of the century the transition was complete, the factories in the area
were closed and post-World War II housing was filling in open space in the
neighborhood.16 (Much open space was preserved through the stewardship of
the New Haven Water Company and its successors as well as private land
owners.) The factory that James Ives had created finally succumbed to fire in
1968. By that point Ivesville had made the transition, described by geographer
Joseph Wood, from industrial village to “a cultural amenity, a retreat from the
city.”17
15
LHD Report (1989), p1-2.
Martha Becker and Nancy Davis Sachse, Hamden: Our Architectural Heritage (Hamden:
Hamden Historical Society, 1986), p. 135.
17 Joseph S. Wood, The New England Village (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002), p. 157.
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Architectural Significance
The buildings and properties in the proposed Ivesville Historic District reflect the
area’s growth from a rural region in the 18th century, to its hey-day as a small
industrial village in the 19th century, and on to the suburban collection of houses
that it is today. The majority of the buildings, and some of the most historically
significant ones, are related to the middle decades of the 19 th century when
Ivesville was a relatively typical New England industrial village. The proposed
district includes remnants of industrial, commercial, and residential buildings ––
including houses for both workers and mill owners –– from this period. This
relatively intact collection of historic buildings still visible the along the street
preserves the district’s visual identity and serve as a reminder of the area’s
important industrial past.
The 18th Century
The sole 18th-century representative in the district is the Elam Ives house (ca.
1790, 95 Ives Street) on the bank of the Mill River. (Photographs of all buildings
in the proposed district can be found in the section entitled Building Descriptions,
below.) This well-preserved example of late 18th century architecture has been
approved by the State Historic Preservation Board for listing in the National
Register of Historic Places. It combines the form of a traditional “Cape Cod”
house (a name attributed to Timothy Dwight) with a less conventional house plan
and unusual construction techniques.18 It was also the birthplace of James Ives,
the industrialist after whom Ivesville is named.
The 19th Century
The 19th century is represented by a wide variety of buildings. The earliest
houses is 176 Ives Street, which is thought to have been built in the early years
of the 19th century. It retains evidence of its beginnings: a clearly legible onestory structure with a pitched roof whose ridge is parallel to the road, clapboard
sheathing, and twelve-over-twelve double-hung sash windows. 176 Ives Street
is thought to have been built for Eber, a brother of Elam Ives.19
The Greek Revival and Italianate Styles
The majority of the buildings in the proposed district are constructed in one (or
both) of the two most popular mid-19th century styles: the Greek Revival and the
Italianate styles. These buildings range from the most utilitarian to those that are
James Sexton, “National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form for the Elam Ives
House,” in the collections of the Historic Preservation Division of the Connecticut Commission on
Culture and Tourism.
19 LHD Report (1989), p. 14; A.C. Ives, Genealogy of the Ives Family, (1932), p. 99. Accessed on
line at genforum.genealogy.com/ives/messages/148.html, August, 2009.
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highly adorned and include not only housing but also the proposed district’s
historic industrial and commercial buildings.
A number of the Greek Revival buildings in the proposed district are from the
simpler end of the spectrum. The earliest of these are the four buildings from 46
to 64 Broadway (all constructed in 1836).20 These buildings were built by
Andrew Hall to house some of his factory workers; he built the factory which was
the predecessor to James Ives’s on the Mill River. 21 These houses reflect their
utilitarian origins with only the slightest nod – being sited with their gable ends to
the street – to the prevailing Greek Revival style of the day. While these houses
have been altered over the years, their similarity in size and shape to each other,
as well as their proximity to the factory remnants, are powerful reminders of their
original use.
Quite similar in size and scale to Hall’s buildings along Broadway is 76 Ives
Street (ca. 1840). This was built as a rental property for Allen Dickerman, a local
farmer and business man. These simple houses continued to be constructed well
into the next decade, as 84 Broadway (ca. 1852), 70 Broadway (ca. 1853) and
118 Broadway (ca. 1868) demonstrate. Both 84 Broadway and 118 Broadway
are sited so that the ridge of the roof is parallel to the road but share a similar
volume with the earlier houses on the street.
The house at 40 Ives Street (1850) sits back from the road and on a small rise. It
includes Greek Revival elements, such as a decorative rectangular window in the
gable and a decorative cornice. The building’s front porch is decorated with
elements associated with the Italianate style including, especially the elaborate
porch posts. This building has an interesting beginning: It was constructed for a
local factory worker, D.W. Brainerd, on land that belonged to Lucius Ives, one of
the sons of Elam Ives. However, Brainerd was sued by the builders who took
over the property and sold it, presumably to recover their expenses.22
While the worker’s housing was quite simple, one example of a mill owner’s
residence in the proposed district made a more dramatic architectural statement.
The Andrew Smith house at 45 Ives Street (1867) mixes elements from both the
Greek Revival and Italianate styles. In this case, the building’s orientation,
cornice and the columns on its porch reflect the former, while the pitch of the
building’s roof and its fenestration, especially the gable window, reflects the
latter. Smith, along with his brothers, owned a needle factory on the Mill River
opposite the Ives and Granniss factory.
In addition to the housing in the proposed district, there is one historic nondomestic structures: the remains of the Greek Revival-influenced factory building
at 2 Broadway (ca. 1865), a remnant of the Ives & Granniss carriage and
20
LHD Report (1989), p. 9-10.
Blake, 151.
22 Clouette and Roth, Inventory number 212; Becker and Sachse, p. 141.
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harness hardware factory. The brick building, which is just a small portion of a
much larger structure that burned in 1968, includes a few decorative elements in
the Greek Revival Style. (See figure 4.) Specifically, the building is decorated
with a dentilated cornice with partial returns at the surviving gable end. The
round-headed windows in the gable are more in keeping with the Italianate style.
The sluice gate for this factory is still visible just off the west side of Spruce Bank
Road. (See Figure 5.)
One 19th-century building in the district is thought to have been moved to
itscurrent sites.23 100 Broadway (mid 19th century), which is stylistically quite
similar to its neighbor 118 Broadway, is thought to have been moved to its
current site around 1900 by John Neary.
The 20th Century
The 20th-century buildings show a mix of styles similar to the preceding centuries.
Additionally, the 20th century is the period when the settlement in the proposed
district became denser, with new streets and lots being carved out and infill
housing being created.
The first 20th-century building in the area was constructed in 1902 at 50 Ives
Street for Lyman Bassett, a bookkeeper at the Warner Manufacturing Company
of New Haven. The house is substantial building with a hipped roof and cross
gables (with one pair of gables being pitched and the other gambrel). While the
building’s hip and cross-gable form and its asymmetrically located porch are
reminiscent of the Queen Anne style, the decorative details on the building ––
such as the pediment over the entry and the paired Tuscan columns supporting
the porch roof –– give it a Colonial Revival style feel.
The building at 94 Broadway (1932), built for carpenter Everett Mason and his
wife Rose, is a simpler example of the Colonial Revival. Its gable-front
orientation and demi-lune window with gothic tracery allude to the architecture of
the Federal era.
The house at 86 Ives Street was built in 1913 for Bernard Judge, a former
resident of Broadway and a machinist at the auto hardware factory. The building
mixes elements from several styles including the Colonial Revival, signaled by a
regular plan and the Tuscan columns supporting the front porch, as well as the
deep overhang and decorated rafter tails visible in the front gable that are
borrowed from the Stick style. The result is a vernacular building without a
definable style.
The Ivesville Historic District, as proposed, will include several currently vacant
lots. Of course, they were not always vacant; the property east of the Mill River
and south of Ives Street, for example, used to contain a needle factory; and the
23
LHD Report (1989), p. 11.
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land north of the river had structures for supplying water power to the Ives and
Granniss factory, of which only the sluice now remains visible. The land along the
Mill River is owned by the Regional Water Authority, which has indicated its
willingness to participate in the Ivesville Historic District. The other two parcels of
vacant land are adjacent to and are owned by property holders at 176 and 200
Ives Street, whose home lots are included in the district.
Even though the continuity of the district has been slightly disrupted by the
introduction of the buildings since the second half of the 20th century, the other
elements within the district so clearly represent a 19th-century industrial village
that the proposed district continues to reflect this important period in the history
of the town.
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Figures
Figure 1 – A detail of the inset map of Mount Carmel from the Hamden map in
The Atlas of New Haven County, Conn. (New York: F.W. Beers, A.D. Ellis & G.G.
Soule, 1868), p. 35. The surnames of the occupants of the housing to the south
of the Ives & Granniss Factory are predominantly Irish.
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Figure 2 – Map of Ives Station, Mt. Carmel Ct., surveyed by G.H. Mann, C.E.,
1872. (Courtesy of the Hamden Historical Society Library.) Note the Depot at the
end of Ives Street and the label, “Ives Station,” on the intersection of Ives Street
and Whitney Avenue.
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Figure 3 – Detail of the New Haven Quadrangle United States Geological Survey
map (1892) showing that the railroad has moved away from the intersection of
Ives Street and Whitney Avenue.
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Figure 4 – Image of the Ives & Granniss factory from company letterhead.
(Courtesy the Hamden Historical Society Library.)
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Figure 5 – Sluice gate on the power canal for the factory at 2 Broadway.
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Building Descriptions
2 Broadway
A one--story brick building with dentilated
cornice. While it was part of a large industrial
complex, the building is still decorated with an
elaborate cornice, round-headed windows in the
gable, and slate window sills and lintels.
This is a small remnant of the factory
constructed in c. 1865 by the firm of Ives &
Granniss, manufacturers of harness & Carriage
hardware. The factory, one of many in the
suburbs of New Haven that supplied that city’s
carriage industry, originally occupied the lot next
door. The factory building survived until it was
destroyed by fire in 1968.
40 Broadway
1.5-story wood frame building. The temple front
arrangement wing was commonly used on
buildings in the Greek Revival style.
This house is one of several buildings
constructed by industrialist Andrew Hall in 1836
to house some of his factory workers. Hall
constructed the factory that preceded the one
whose remains can currently be found at 2
Broadway. Alterations to the buildings over the
years may have obscured what was originally a
more uniform appearance. The building was
first occupied by its owner in 1863, when John
Ratigan, a day laborer, purchased it.
46 Broadway
1.5-story wood frame building with entrance on
the side away from the street.
This house is one of several buildings
constructed by industrialist Andrew Hall in 1836
to house some of his factory workers. Hall
constructed the factory that preceded the one
whose remains can currently be found at 2
Broadway. Alterations to the buildings over the
years may have obscured what was originally a
more uniform appearance. This building is now
the simplest of the group. The first owneroccupiers were Michael and Mary (Ratigan)
Delaney. They purchased the house in 1863.
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52 Broadway
1.5-story wood frame building with entrance
hood on consoles and large shed dormers.
This house is one of several buildings
constructed by industrialist Andrew Hall in 1836
to house some of his factory workers. Hall
constructed the factory that preceded the one
whose remains can currently be found at 2
Broadway. Alterations to the buildings over the
years may have obscured what originally a more
uniform appearance, although the building is
strikingly similar to 64 Broadway. The first local
owners were John Fahey, a mechanic and day
laborer, and his wife Bridget (Ratigan) Fahey.
58 Broadway
2-story, gable front, wood frame building with
enclosed porch.
This house is one of several buildings
constructed by industrialist Andrew Hall in 1836
to house some of his factory workers. Hall
constructed the factory that preceded the one
whose remains can currently be found at 2
Broadway. It is unclear whether this building has
always been larger than its neighbors, or if this
is the result of subsequent alteration in 1930.
The first owner to live in the building was
Michael Delaney, a day laborer, who purchased
the house in 1862.
64 Broadway
1.5-story wood frame house with a hipped roof
addition to the south and large dormers on both
slopes of the roof.
This house is one of several buildings
constructed by industrialist Andrew Hall in 1836
to house some of his factory workers. Hall
constructed the factory that preceded the one
whose remains can currently be found at 2
Broadway. Alterations to the buildings over the
years may have obscured it original
appearance; it does share many features with
52 Broadway. The first owner-occupiers were
Martin and Bedotha Stevens in 1852.
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70 Broadway
2-story wood frame building with full-width front
porch.
The building was constructed c. 1853 for
mechanic Daniel Rourke (or Roarke). It is a
representative example of the relatively simple
houses being constructed for the factory
workers of the day.
76 Broadway
1-story wood frame building with an
asymmetrical roof.
The building is a clear example of the postWorld War II popularity of the “Cape Cod”
house. In the years after the war, builders filled
the American landscape with small houses like
this one. Inspired by a traditional house type,
builders constructed these to house the growing
American population. Such structures worked
well in historic neighborhoods like this one. The
house was constructed in 1948 for Loretta and
Vincent Currano.
84 Broadway
1.5-story wood frame house with rear ell and
walk-out basement.
This house was constructed ca. 1852 for brass
molder Edward Noble. It, along with its neighbor
76 Broadway and the Elam Ives house at 95
Ives Street, are potent reminders of the enduring
appeal of the Cape Cod-style house throughout
the history of the district.
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94 Broadway
2-story gable front, wood frame house with
demi-lune window with Gothic tracery in the
gable.
The house demonstrates the wide-latitude that
that the Colonial Revival style allowed designers
working in the idiom. With a few details – the
simple mass of the building, its siting, and the
gable window – the designer is able to create a
connection to the historic architecture of the
area.
The house was constructed for (and perhaps by)
Everett Mason, a carpenter, and his wife Rose
in 1932.
100 Broadway
2-story side gable, wood frame house with fullwidth front porch.
The origins of this house are not known. It is
thought to have been moved to this site by John
Neary around 1900.
The front porch supports have been rebuilt since
the building was surveyed in 1989.
118 Broadway
2-story end gable, wood frame house with
center chimney and entry hood.
The house is thought to have been constructed
not long after the 1868 Beers Atlas was created
(as it does not appear there). Like its neighbors,
it was built with little few adornments, perhaps
reflecting of its original owners. The original
owner was Francis Hoye, a local mechanic. The
greenhouse on the property was added in 1930.
Ivesville Local Historic District -- 20
40 Ives St.
2-story gable front wood frame building with
wrap around porch.
The building is one of several on Ives Street that
combine elements of the Greek Revival style –
the “temple front” arrangement, the enclosed
gable, the rectangular decorative window in the
gable -- with decorative elements in the
Italianate style – notably the supports for wrap
around porch.
The building was constructed for D.W. Brainerd,
a local mechanic, in 1850. It appears that he ran
into financial troubles, as he was sued and the
house awarded to his contractors.
45 Ives St.
2-story gable front wood frame building with
wrap around porch.
Like 40 Ives Street, this building combines
elements of the Greek Revival and Italianate
styles. Its plan, cornice, and porch columns all
allude to classical antecedents, while the
shallow pitch of the roof, the overhanging eaves,
and windows are Italianate in style.
This is one of two buildings constructed for a
local mill owner. It was built for Andrew H.
Smith, the co-owner with his brother Ira of a
needle factory located across the street from 2
Broadway, in 1867.
50 Ives St.
2-story wood frame house with hipped roof and cross
gables and a wrap around porch.
The house is an interesting example of the Colonial
Revival style, combining elements inspired by historic
architecture in a new and unusual way.
The building was constructed for Lyman Bassett, a
bookkeeper at the Warner Manufacturing Company
in New Haven, in 1902. Bassett may have been a
colleague of James Ives. Lyman Bassett is listed as
a director of the Mt. Carmel Water Company and the
Secretary of the Mount Carmel Bolt Company.
Ivesville Local Historic District -- 21
76 Ives St.
1.5-tory gable front house with large rear
addition.
The building is a good example of a small, gable
front building. The location of the door, not
facing Ives Street, raises the question of
whether it was once located in the gable.
The house was constructed around 1840 for
Allan Dickerman, a local farmer, as a rental
property.
86 Ives St.
2.5-story gable front building with full-width front
porch.
The building mixes elements from several styles
including the Colonial Revival, signaled by a
regular plan and the Tuscan columns supporting
the front porch, as well as the deep overhang
and decorated rafter tails visible in the front
gable that are borrowed from the Stick style.
The house was constructed for Bernard Judge
in 1913. A machinist in one of the auto hardware
factories. Judge was living on Broadway in
1910.
95-165 Ives St.
1.5-story center chimney, wood frame building with
bell-cast rear slope of the roof. The house combines
the form of a traditional Cape Cod house with an
unusual variation on the square plan layout. The
building was also prepared for construction in an
unusual way: the timbers were labeled with cardinal
directions, an uncommon practice at the end of the
18th century. Constructed ca. 1790, the Elam Ives
House is on the National Registry of Historic Places.
165 Ives St. is the vacant property along the Mill
River south and north of the bridge, owned by the
Regional Water Authority (not pictured).
Ivesville Local Historic District -- 22
176-183 Ives St.
1.5-story end gable wood frame house with two
chimneys and later additions to the rear and side.
The house is an interesting example of a small, fivebay, center hall house (as indicated by the pair of
chimneys). The front door surround appears to be
mid-19th century. The additions sit back from the
original structure, leaving it the dominant feature in
the landscape. Restored in the 1930s the house was
constructed around 1800 for Eber Ives, a brother of
Elam Ives.
 183 Ives St. is the vacant lot across the street,
which is owned by the owner of 176 Ives St. (not
pictured).
200-220 Ives St.
1.5-story wood frame house. This is an
instructive example of the simple buildings
which filled the landscape of early 19th century
New England. The house does not seem to
appear on historic maps, so may have been
moved to this site. Stylistically it appears to have
been built around 1800. There is also a large
barn on property that likely dates from the 19th
century.
 200 Ives St. is the vacant lot between 176 and
220 Ives St., which is owned by the owner of
220 Ives St. (not pictured).
Ivesville Local Historic District -- 23
Ivesville Historic District Resource List (Address and Owner data taken from Vision Appraisal on-line database –
August, 2009; updated Feb. 2011)
Number
1.
Name of property owner
Edward F. Hirsch, Jr.
Address
2 Broadway
2.
Lisa Hollin
40 Broadway
3.
Robert A. Jr. & Lori M. Nevola
46 Broadway
4.
Edward Mattei & Sandra Lee
52 Broadway
5.
Steven & Katherine Cavanaugh
58 Broadway
6.
Earlene K. & William A. Farrell
64 Broadway
7.
Jill Parks Johnson
70 Broadway
8.
Bruce M. & Martha M.C. Bornick
76 Broadway
9.
Florence M. Fletcher
84 Broadway
10.
Cynthia C. Turner
94 Broadway
11.
Ronald G. Jasensky & Jessica 100 Broadway
Proto
Sheila B. McCormick AKA Sheila 118 Broadway
M. Streeter
Harland & Theresa M. Mayo
40 Ives St.
12.
13.
Parcel Number
2931-067-000000
2931-068-000000
2931-069-000000
2931-086-000000
2931-100-000000
2931-101-000000
2931-102-000000
2931-103-000000
2931-104-000000
2931-105-000000
2931-106-000000
2931-115-000000
2931-051-00-
Date
Ca. 1865
Style
Greek Revival/Italianate
1836
Greek Revival
1836
Greek Revival
1836
Greek Revival
1836
Greek Revival
1836
Greek Revival
Ca. 1853
Greek Revival
1948
Cape
c. 1852
Greek Revival
1932
Colonial Revival
Mid-19th
century
Ca. 1868
Greek Revival
1850
Greek Revival/Italianate
Vernacular
Ivesville Local Historic District -- 24
Number
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
Name of property owner
Address
Parcel Number
0000
Lauren M. & Craig B. Henrici
45 Ives St.
2931-055-000000
Sarah S. Heath & Franz Douskey 50 Ives St.
2931-050-000000
John Bratsis
76 Ives St.
2931-048-000000
Quinnipiac University
86 Ives St.
2931-047-000000
South Central Ct RWA
95 Ives St.
2831-033-000000
South Central Ct RWA
165 Ives St.
2831-033-000000
Thomas H. & Phoebe P. Styron
176 Ives St.
2931-072-000000
Thomas H. & Phoebe P. Styron
183 Ives St. (bridge 2931-074-00around driveway)
0000
Daniel C. Cecchetto & Anita 200 Ives St.
2931-089-01Macagno
0000
Daniel C. Cecchetto & Anita 220 Ives
2931-089-00Macagno
0000
Date
Style
1867
Greek Revival/Italianate
1902
Colonial Revival
Ca. 1840
Greek Revival
1913
Vernacular
Ca. 1790
Cape
No building
Ca. 1800
Federal
No building
No building
Ca. 1800
Vernacular
Ivesville Local Historic District -- 25