Opposite the Old Campus, on Chapel Street, in New Haven, Connecticut: from when the glaciers melted, stewarded by the Quinnipiac people; in 1614, charted by a Dutch explorer; in 1638, colonized by Puritans; before, during, and after the American Revolution, home of the Founding Father, Roger Sherman, his wife Rebekah, their fifteen children, and the Sherman family store; in 1860, Gaius F. Warner's Italianate villa, by Henry Austin; in 1880, Carll's Opera House; in 1884, the Republican League; in 1887, the Hyperion; in 1903, the Union League Club, by Richard Williams; in 1926, the Roger Sherman Theater; beginning in 1977, a tradition of French fine dining, which continues today. While the Roger Sherman house is no longer standing, it holds up all right.
MR. S. Z. POLI Presents THE HYPERION PLAYERS -IN- “TRILBY” By George Du Maurier, Under the Direction of Bernard Steele, Ast. Director, Jerome Broderick
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of Hyperion New Haven collection, Hyperion theatre program, 1919
-Image courtesy of the Yale Daily News Historical Archive, Yale Daily News, Tuesday, February 4, 1919
-Image courtesy of Newspapers.com, The Hartford Courant, Tuesday, July 22, 1919
-Image courtesy of the Yale Daily News Historical Archive, Yale Daily News, Wednesday, February 12, 1919
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Published by Arthur Mullen
Roger Sherman, also of Connecticut, was known to have given one of the shortest speeches in history at a bridge dedication ceremony when he said, "I think it will hold up all right," while testing the strength of the bridge with one foot.
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