Opposite the Old Campus, on Chapel Street, in New Haven, Connecticut; first settled by Native Americans before memory or record; planted by Puritans in 1638; home to Roger Sherman throughout the War of Independence; the Gaius F. Warner mansion by Henry Austin in 1860; Carll's Opera House in 1880; the Republican League club in 1884; the Hyperion theatre in 1887; the Union League club by Richard Williams in 1903; the Roger Sherman Theater in 1926; a succession of French fine dining restaurants, beginning in 1977, that continues today. While the Roger Sherman house is no longer standing, the U. S. Constitution is, and reconstruction continues.
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
SUNSET FROM EAST ROCK.
“I gazed on the beauty of vanishing hills The chisel of time had enwrought; I longed for the genius to fashion the words, By masterly touches of thought, In musical metre and blending of tone, With spark and poesy blest, To tell to the world how the day dropped to sleep In the arms of the warm-bosomed west. I peeked thro’ the windows of diamond panes, With curtains of soft, misty pink; The tree-tops were parted that I might see in; One kindly star blossomed to blink; A primrose new blown opened shining and full; The crystal deeps thrilled with delight; And veins of the violets pulsed into play When the rosy-cheeked day said good-night. A song-sparrow waited till late with its lay, Then mingling, as sunshine and rain, His sweet vesper warble from birches and oak, Fused thankfulness over the plain; The lashes of evening drooped over the blue; The lights from a train rumbled by; But day was at rest, as by mother-heart blest, A crescent-moon love-watching nigh. The picture returns like a vision from Faust, Dissolves in the mem’ry of night; As closes the drama in breathless array On Gounod’s sweet transfixing flight, So steals to me now the enchantment of then, I found when that dream-incense, sleep, From out of the stillness the heavens exhaled, Fell over the face of the deep.” -Excerpt and (top) image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
-Image courtesy of the Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library, David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction, “Elm City: picture and verse,” by Herbert Randall, 1896
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