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.
"While anti-billboard women pursued a grassroots 'outside' strategy, anti-billboard men commenced an 'inside' effort to influence policymakers, planners, and political elites. These men, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, J. Horace McFarland, and in New Haven, George Dudley Seymour, led the City Beautiful movement, and as such formed the moderate wing of the anti-billboard effort. An… Continue reading The Hyperion Theatre’s Flashy Electric Sign
"Sherman's Building, 1032 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut. Formerly known as the Union League Club, this gracious structure was built in 1860. Prime commercial space available on two floors. Directly across from Yale University. 1032 Chapel Street (A) 3347 square feet and 1032 Chapel Street (B) 1727 square feet available April, 1985."-excerpt and (top) image… Continue reading Prime Commercial Space Now Available
"On the second floor, above the Union League Cafe on Chapel Street, downtown New Haven merchants from the College-Chapel area mingle over wine and cheese. Behind them hang photographs and paintings of New Haven. White Christmas lights, twined into a large wreath and two small Christmas trees, reflect in the floor-to-ceiling windows facing onto the… Continue reading I’ll See You in Court, by Michelle Chihara
"Sitting at his desk at the family scrap business here, a large painting of a wide-hipped nude behind him, Joel Schiavone does not look like a one-man urban renewal agency. He sure sounds like one, though. 'I'm doing things the city of New Haven should have done 10 years ago,' Schiavone said in an interview… Continue reading Business Whiz Stirs Renewal, by David Wessel
"New Haven’s colonial founders established a 9-square plan, dating to 1638, with each square occupying about 16 acres. The original squares were subdivided starting in the late 18th century, but this process still left large, square-shaped blocks. The result is that we see a lot of action in the 'Mid-Block.' Consider this image from the… Continue reading Theaters at the Mid-Block, by Elihu Rubin
"Three Yale students were arrested toward the close of a show given by Gaby Deslys at the Hyperion Theatre last night during a disturbance, in which missles were thrown at the star. She was struck with pennies, cigarette boxes, and finally a bag of peanuts, the latter landing squarely on her forehead."
"In the Morris house in East Haven are a chest of drawers hit by a British cannonball in 1779, and the missile itself; a painting of Amos Morris, and the chair on which he sat for the painting." -Image courtesy of the New York Times, Times Machines, "War-Scarred Relics of the Revolution," by Frances Phipps,… Continue reading New Haven during the War of the Revolution, July 5, 1779
-Image courtesy of the Internet Archive, The Library of Congress, "The homes of our forefathers. Being a selection of the oldest and most interesting buildings, historical houses, and noted places in Rhode Island and Connecticut," by Edwin Whitefield, 1882 "The house was completed in 1770, in which year Mr. Sherman moved into it. Within its… Continue reading Roger Sherman completed building his house.
"As a preeminent portraitist of the early republic, Earl provides some of the most memorable images of the turbulent era. His portrait of Roger Sherman is considered his masterpiece. It commemorates Sherman's service as a member of the First Continental Congress, from which he had just returned. Sherman sits in an austere interior on a… Continue reading Portrait of Roger Sherman, by Ralph Earl