On Chapel Street, in New Haven, Connecticut, opposite the Old Campus: from the time of glaciation, cultivated by the Quinnipiac; in 1614, charted by a Dutch explorer; in 1638, colonized by the Puritans; throughout the American Revolution, home of the signer, Roger Sherman, his second wife Rebecca Prescott-Sherman, their fifteen children, and the family store; in 1860, industrialist Gaius Fenn Warner's Italianate villa, by Henry Austin; in 1880, Marshal Peter R. Carll's Opera House; in 1884, the Republican League; in 1887, the Hyperion; in 1903, the Union League addition, by Richard Williams; in 1926, the Roger Sherman Theater; beginning in 1976, a tradition of French fine dining, that continues today. While the Roger Sherman house is no longer standing, it holds up all right.
"Jim Grabowski crossed his arms, the fingers of one hand enclosing a delicate, fan-shaped paintbrush, and summed up his career as an artist. 'I paint things nobody else paints... my way,' said the man whose robust, black-bearded appearance is as solid as the work he produces. Grabowski assembles collages. He combines acrylic backgrounds with whatever material interests him, from sea fans to wallpaper and gold foil."