Ivesville Historic District Backgroud Report

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:    

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

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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. 9

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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

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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. 16

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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. 18

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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. 21

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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).

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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

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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

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