“Dr. A. E. Winchell and George D. Hughes, proprietors of the Hyperion, are about to erect two new brick buildings close to the theater. One will be a business block, three stories high and 36 by 50 feet in dimensions, to contain a large basement office, two stores on the first floor, two offices in the second story and an office for a photographer on the top floor. The location of the block will be directly in front of the Hyperion, on the vacant plot where a fountain has heretofore stood, leaving the wide concrete walk for a passage-way to the Hyperion between this new structure and the Republican league building, a width of eighteen feet. The new block will obscure the view of the Hyperion from the street, but will not interfere, according to the assertions, with the means of entrance or exit. The cost of the block will be about $15,000. The contract has not yet been awarded, but the work will be immediately begun.
The second building to be erected there is a brick barn, 90 feet long, 75 feet wide, and two stories high. It will stand directly in the rear of the theater. The barn will be used for a livery stable and will have convenient accommodations for 60 horses, with available space for 40 more if desired. Work was begun on this structure yesterday by Contractor Nicholas Countryman. This building will cost about $4,000.”
-Excerpt and newspaper images courtesy of GenealogyBank, The New Haven Evening Register, “Close to the Hyperion. A Brick Block and a Brick Bare [sic],” February 26, 1891 (top) Stereoview image courtesy of WorthPoint, “CONNECTICUT, NEW HAVEN, ON CHAPEL ST.–STEREOVIEW L16,” undated
