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.
"The curtain was just going up on the evening performance of 'The Record Breakers,' burlesque show at the Hyperion Theatre, in New Haven, the other night, when some one called the theatre on the telephone and asked for Manager W. D. Fitzgerald. 'This is Mr. Frederick F. Brewster,' said a dignified voice when Mr. Fitzgerald… Continue reading Wild Night of the Bogus Multi-Millionaire