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NEW HAVEN
GEORGE DUDLEY SEYMOUR
GENEALOGY 974.602 N415
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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930)
NEW HAVEN C
A book recording the varied activities of the author in his efforts over many years to promote the welfare of the city of his adoption since 1883, together with some researches into its storied past and many illustrations
By GEORGE DUDLEY SEYMOUR
"Oh, call back yesterday, bid time return !" " We are in no danger of falling into too great a reverence for the things of antiquity."
NEW HAVEN Privately Printed for the Author 1942
THE TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR COMPANY NEW HAVEN, CONN.
5-500 # 12/34
1300515
TO THE HONORED MEMORY OF
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930)
ISAAC MORRIS ULLMAN (1863-1930)
LEWIS SHELDON WELCH (1867-1940)
THREE MEN OF VISION
PREFACE.
With the exception of three or four pages at the end, this belated book has been in print in ungathered sheets for a num- ber of years. The illustrations too, although they have now been supplemented by a few half-tones made in the meantime for other books published for the author, were for the most part made years ago. The book may thus be viewed as a back number-as an antique, if you please. My reason for publish- ing it at this late date is, besides its being already in print, that it will serve to record my prolonged, though ill-fated, attempt to induce New Haven to adopt systematic "City Planning" and to provide her Harbor with ample terminal facilities, as well as to record other matters of local history and of personal and antiquarian interest.
As I recall the beginning of what has now grown into this book, I was led to publish at least the first few of the papers by my lamented friend, the late Lewis S. Welch, whose able and attractive brothers I had known since school days in Hartford. Always an optimist, Welch thought that these several papers would some day be of public interest. He did not realize the magnitude of the task of getting an ancient, conservative, Colonial City to adopt something as progressive as modern City Planning.
As time went on, public interest waned, and the author, never successful in securing cordial cooperation of City Hall, came to realize that New Haven was not ready for City Planning. So he began to add to his collection miscellaneous articles of New Haven interest, particularly articles about Nathan Hale, but he never gave up his hope of publishing the book, to which he especially hoped to add a paper on his campaign for the redemption of the Harbor. He has always taken the view that the Harbor is the chief economic asset of New Haven, and he rejoices to read in the daily papers of the present day that his old project of more than twenty-five years ago is again being vigorously prosecuted. He has a large file on the subject but
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he has never had the time to write up his original campaign, in which he was warmly supported both by Colonel Isaac M. Ullman, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and by former President Taft. It was Mr. Taft, indeed, who selected the expert to study and report on the Harbor problem. The author hoped too to write up accounts of the Bradley House on State Street and of the Ralph Isaacs House on Water Street, for both of which he has notes and illustrations.
The purchase and reclamation of The Birth-Place of Nathan Hale defeated these projects, and the book was never finished. The author cannot hope now to supply more than meagre cap- tions for the illustrations, instead of the full descriptions he had planned.
The author would be remiss in his duty if he did not par- ticularly record his obligation to Colonel Ullman in the days of his efforts to do something worth while for New Haven. Colonel Ullman was a man of wide vision, and he was generous to a fault of his time and his money in advancing City Planning and Harbor improvement. He is entitled to full recognition. The author can do no better now than to call attention to Colonel Ullman's own words, with which he opened this book some thirty years ago.
In conclusion, I cannot forbear calling attention to the Report, dated 1910, of Mr. Cass Gilbert, Architect, and Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, to the New Haven Civic Improvement Commission. I am free to say that, although this Report by two of the best known men in this country received little attention here in New Haven, it received much in other places, some of them in the far West. I myself supplied by request some copies of the Report to be used at Harvard College as a textbook on City Planning.
Today, in looking over the book for the first time in years, I am proud of the list of subscribers to the fund for securing this Report. I could hardly have picked out a more repre- sentative group of New Haven citizens.
New Haven, May 8, 1940.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The True Function of a Chamber of Commerce
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The Author appears before the Board of Aldermen to oppose the Petition presented by the Directors of the New Haven Public Library for a Site on the Old New Haven Green for a New Library Building. (The author's first public appearance as a constructive citizen.) 3
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An Open Letter to the Mayor and Aldermen urging the Adoption of "City Planning" 16 List of Subscribers to the Fund to employ "City Planning" Experts 18
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Tribute to Mr. Machado, who prepared Tentative Drawings to visualize the Proposed Library, County Court House, Hall of Records on Elm Street, facing the Lower Green 53
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Looking Forward: An Address before the Women's Civic Club of New Haven on March 25, 1908. (In this address the Sunday opening of the Art School and Peabody Museum, as first proposed by the author, are commented upon as well as his proposal to have public recitals on the Woolsey Organ Sunday afternoons and the opening of the Historical Society building on Sundays. )
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The Rise and Fall of the "City of Elms": A Campaign · Document urging spraying of the Elms and the employ- ment of an expert to begin replanting and the systematic care of all City Trees
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The Familiar Hale: An Attempt to show by what standards of Age, Appearance, and Character, the Proposed Statue of Nathan Hale for the Campus of Yale College should be judged. (This article is followed by several letters and papers on the subject, concluding with an excerpt from "The Martyrdom of Nathan Hale"; a scene written by the author for the Yale Pageant, Octo- ber, 1916.)
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Paul Wayland Bartlett's "Lafayette." (Mr. Bartlett was born in New Haven in 1865, and was a pupil for a time in our New Haven schools.)
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Letter to the President and Board of Trustees of the Henry Whitfield State Historical Museum at Guilford ; Together with an Account of the Silver of the First Church in Guilford and the Wind that Blew it into the Whitfield Museum
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Protest Against the Appropriation of State Funds for the Erection of Public Monuments except as approved as to "Design, Material and Location" by a State Commis- sion on Sculpture. (The story of a bitter fight in which the author lost out, despite the support of Mr. Augustus Saint Gaudens, the State Commission of Sculpture, and the American Institute of Architects, who supported the principle for which the author contended.) 168
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A Proposition to Restore Center Church to its Original Appearance; Together with Notices of Ithiel Town and Peter Harrison
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Hillhouse Day: A Project to replant the Green with Elms on October Twenty-First, the One Hundred and Fifty- Sixth Anniversary of the Birth of James Hillhouse, Prime-Mover in the planting of the New Haven Elms. Presented to the New Haven Chamber of Commerce on May 24th, 1910; Together with an Appreciation of the New Haven Elms in 1851 by Donald G. Mitchell and Professor Beers' celebrated "Consule Planco" ...
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A Letter to the New Haven Chamber of Commerce in Opposition to a Project to erect a Waiting Room on the New Haven Green. (The author was the only person who could be found to speak in opposition to the plan of the engineer of the New Haven road. Happily, his arguments prevailed. )
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A Proposition to Regulate Illuminated Signs; Together with Notes on the Practice elsewhere, and a Briton's View of New Haven and Yale in 1869 207
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Some Suggestions regarding the Sculptural Decoration of the New Haven County Court House. (This paper suggested that New Haven's native son, Paul Bartlett, one of the foremost of America's sculptors, should be commissioned to do figures of Governor Theophilus Eaton and Roger Sherman and execute a pediment for the new County Court House. Everyone must regret that the work was not entrusted to Mr. Bartlett. ) ... 215
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Henry Austin : Architect of the Old Yale College Library : Together with numerous Notes and the Author's Let- ter to the Yale Corporation, "Suggesting that the Corpo-
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ration shall, by a formal Vote, extend to the Citizens of New Haven the Privilege of using the University Library and to put the Carnegie Swimming Pool at the disposal of the men of New Haven, say from the First of July until the Fifteenth of September, each year here- after, unless a Trial proves that the Plan is not work- able"
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Ithiel Town: 1784-1844 ; Architect ; Bridge-Builder ; Patron of the Arts; His Famous Library. (The author's Life of Town was never printed ; since it was written much new material regarding him has come to light. The author was given permission to erect a tablet to the memory of Mr. Town in the vestibule of Center Church. )
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David Hoadley: 1774-1839; The "Self-Taught" Architect; Together with the Inscription on the Tablet erected by the Author in the North Church to the Memory of Hoadley 239
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Sidney Mason Stone: 1803-1882; House-Carpenter ; Mas- ter-Builder; Architect 244
Colonel John Trumbull and his well-kept Secret 248
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David Russell Brown: 1831-1910; Designer of the New Haven City Hall and Old County Court House 250
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Alexander Jackson Davis: 1803-1892; Partner of Ithiel Town; Designer of the Hillhouse and Henry Whitney Mansions 252
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Suggestion for the Relocation of the Building of the New
Haven Colony Historical Society 253
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New Haven in the Forties: How we appeared to a dis- tinguished scientist, Sir Charles Lyell 258
The Discriminating Mr. Dinsmore 261
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New Haven in 1850
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New Haven Railway Station: Past, Present and Future ... 284
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"Allerton Avenue" Suggested as the Name for the Orange Street Approach to the Railway Station 295
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The Passing of Two Famous Hotels
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The Thomas Trowbridge Mansion, 1852-1912; Sidney Mason Stone, Architect ; Underground Railroad Station for Fugitive Slaves; Lincoln and Blaine its Guests ; Fate of the Corinthian Columns of its Façade 302
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New Haven's Roll of Honor: Names of New Haven Worthies Selected for the Memorial Arch of 1912. (A crowded pantheon with a quotation from Florio.) .... 305
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The Verse of Scripture and the Names of the "Seven Pillars" and the Eight Noted Citizens cut into the Stone of the New Federal Building 314
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A Neglected Son of New Haven : Charles Goodyear .. 317
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List of "Monuments, Tablets, Statues," furnished the New Haven Council of Boy Scouts of America, here printed as a Tribute to Gilbert N. Jerome, Scout Executive, who gave his life in the World War 320 Sketch of Lieutenant Jerome by the Reverend Dr. Orville A. Petty, Captain A.E.F. 322
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The Mitchell Memorial Book-Plate 323
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A Plea for Printing the Records of Center Church .. 327
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A Plea for Scale Drawings of Old Connecticut Churches and Dwelling Houses; Excerpts from an Address before the Connecticut Society of Colonial Dames, Delivered at New Haven, December 1, 1915, at Home of Mrs. Elford Parry Trowbridge 332
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A Church Bell brought home from the Philippines hung in the Belfry of St. Paul's Church 335
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Fort Hale Park, 1921. (An account of the hearing of Janu- ary 19, 1922 before the Committee on Military Affairs of the House of Representatives, together with the statements there made by Chief-Justice Taft and the author, at whose behest the two bills, 8749 and 9778, were presented. ) 337
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Hale's "Last Words" Derived from Addison's "Cato": A Psychological Parallel 346
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Mr. Pardee and the Hale Statue 353
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Nathan Hale-the 150th Anniversary of his Graduation, I773-1923, and Two Proposed Memorials to Hale, and Letters from President Harding, President Coolidge, President Taft and the Postmaster-General, Harry S. New 354
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Henry Caner, Yale's First Builder 366
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A Unique Document-Governor Saltonstall's "Drive" of 1721 to raise funds for a Rector's House 375
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A New England Gentlewoman calls on the writer-How the Doors of the Reverend Mr. Russell's House in Bran- ford in which the Founders of Yale assembled, 1701-2, came into the possession of the University 378
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Nearly a Hundred and Twenty-Five Years later he entered the Yale Dining Hall with his Mitre over his Head .... 384 Stories Told in New Haven: An Evening with Bishop Williams 387
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The Reverend Doctor Theodore T. Munger's Commenda- tion of Cardinal Newman's "Idea of a University." (Including an excerpt from President Hadley's inaug- ural address.) 390
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Planting the Davenport and Eaton Memorial Oaks on the Green on the Two Hundred Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Davenport's First Sermon 393
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An Incident in the Building of Christ Church, West Haven 398
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A Rare Hale Item
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Hale in Ballad Poetry 406
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The Hale Building Tradition : A Background of Fine Housing 409
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Lieutenant Elisha Bostwick's Description of Hale's Per- sonal Appearance: An Account of its discovery in the Archives of the Pension Bureau in Washington. (Including the "Weeping House" of Norwich.) . .
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The Hale Homestead : Built by Deacon Richard Hale (1717- 1802), Father of the Patriot 434
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President Roosevelt on Hale and André: A Faulty Com- parison. ("History is a sacred kind of writing, because truth is essential to it.") 436
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André's Letter to Washington and his Self-Portrait, written and sketched on the Morning of the Day first set for his Execution, October 1, 1780 440
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President Coolidge's Tribute to Hale
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Footsteps of Hale in New Haven 447
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"I Can't Hear, Sir, That You Are About Mounting the Desk" 459
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Two Sermons by Dr. Munger. (Including "The Municipal Church," and his sermon on Hale.) 462
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The Munger Tablet in the Yale Bicentennial Buildings. . ..
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Alexander's Portrait of Professor Weir. ("Those portrait- painting, portrait-eating eyes of thine.") 469
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The Mclaughlin Memorial Book-Plate 477
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Some Alleged Washington Silver Exhibited 1906 at the Old South Meeting House : The Adventure of a Connecticut Yankee in "Cold Roast Boston." ("Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.") 1. 479
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Fine Façades -- Weak Sides and Ends 484
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The Snuff-Box of St. Eli : A little-known Portrait of Yale's great early Benefactor and Patron Saint-An Anti- quarian Adventure 485
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A Letter dated New Haven, July II, 1774, from James Hill- house to his Yale Classmate, Nathan Hale, now for the first time printed: Together with an Account of the First Plays produced by Yale Undergraduates, and many Digressions 489
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Hale as a Versifier : A heretofore unprinted bit of Doggerel addressed by him on leaving East Haddam in the fore part of 1774 to a Nameless Inamorata 533
LXVI
Scenario for the Hale Episode of the Yale Pageant Per- formed in the Yale Bowl on 21 October, 1916 542
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The Residence and Library of Ithiel Town (1784-1844) .. 546
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Dwight and Hillhouse: Pioneers in Pomology 561
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Safety First: An Argument for Removal of the First Vol- ume of the New Haven Colony Records to Hartford and its Deposit there in the fire-and-damp-proof Vaults of the State Library 563
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On the Location of a New City Hall: An Open Letter to the Special Committee of the Board of Aldermen 570 A Letter from Former President Taft 577
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Primer of New Haven History Combined with Primer of City Planning needed for use in our Schools 579
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The Use of the Streets by Private Interests-The Fight over the Shartenberg & Robinson Marquee-The Principle Involved-Refusal of the Newspapers to print my Pro- test compels me to become a Pamphleteer-"The Vic- tory of the Vanquished" 582
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The Commission on the City Plan, One of the Fruits of the City Improvement Movement begun in 1907 . 588
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A Valedictory 590
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The Mayor's Reply 605
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A Group of Editorials: "The City Plan Commission"; "City-Planning Stalled"; "New Haven's Loss"; "Intelli- . gent City Planning"; And a Letter from Mr. Cass Gilbert 606
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Lighthouse Point acquired as an extension of the New Haven Park System-the Story of a "Free Lance" and a Popu- lar Cause back of it. A Public Golf Course Vetoed .. 613
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Mr. Taft greatly loved New Haven and favored the adoption of Systematic City Planning and the Installation of Terminal Facilities in the Harbor, as proposed by the author 617
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Two Souvenirs of the War of 1812 619
APPENDIX
New Haven as it Appeared to the First President Dwight, 1752-1817 623
Charles Dickens, the Novelist, on New Haven, Feb. 11, 1842 624
Excerpts from a Gazetteer of the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island, 1819 625
New Haven as it Appeared to Nathaniel Parker Willis, born 1806 Yale 1827-died 1867. ("The Gothic Church"; Yale College. ) 626
The Message of France to Connecticut on the up-keep of her new State Highways 630
Save the State House. A Letter printed in the "Hartford Courant," March 30, 1910 633
Noah Webster of Connecticut, the First American Advocate of Timber-Conservation 636
Memorial Possibilities : New Haven Hymn 637
Errata 639
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Governor Theophilus Eaton's House 642
Isham's conjectural restoration of the plan of the first and second floors of the Governor Eaton House 643
The Eaton Cenotaph, unveiled November 20, 1938 644 New Haven Town Plan-the first in this country; John Brockett, the first American town-planner . 646
Central section of Amos Doolittle's map of New Haven ... 648 Proposed inscription for a cenotaph to John Brockett (1612- 1690) 649
Proposed Municipal Group, designed by Ernest M. A. Machado (1868-1906) 650
Cass Gilbert's proposed design for the New Haven County Court House 651
Allen and Williams' design for the New Haven County Court House-the design erected 651
The Reverend John Davenport (1597-1670) ; co-founder of New Haven with Governor Theophilus Eaton 652
The Reverend James Pierpont (1659-1714) ; one of the founders of Yale College
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The Reverend Timothy Edwards House in Windsor 656
Mary Hooker, daughter of the Reverend Samuel Hooker, of Farmington; granddaughter of the Reverend Thomas Hooker, of Hartford, founder of the Colony of Con- necticut; and third consort of the Reverend James Pierpont, of New Haven 657
Reverend Cotton Mather (1663-1728) ; author of the "Magnalia"; entitled to rank as one of the foremost benefactors of Yale 658
The Reverend Governor Gurdon Saltonstall ( 1666-1724) . . 659 "Mother Yale," the first of the Yale College buildings 660 . Mr. George Welles (1756-1813); portrait by St. John Honeywood 661
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A unique document-a souvenir of Yale's first drive for funds [1721] 662
The Saltonstall House, Branford, built by the Reverend Gov- ernor Gurdon Saltonstall in 1708; burned 1909 664
The doors of the Reverend Mr. Russell's House, in Bran- ford, in which the founders of Yale assembled, 1701-2, pictured as open and as closed 666
The Rector's House, built in 1722; demolished in 1834. The site is now occupied by the Roger Sherman Theatre. . 668
The snuff-box of St. Eli; a little-known portrait of Yale's great early benefactor and Patron Saint 669
Headstone in the Hillhouse lot in the Grove Street Cemetery of Yale's Master-Builder, Henry Caner 670
The Reverend Henry Caner (1699-1792) ; from the mezzo- tint by Peter Pelham of the portrait by John Smybert 671
The Timothy Jones Mansion ; built 1765 or 1767 672
Fine staircase in the Timothy Jones Mansion 673
James Hillhouse (1754-1832), the Patriot; from the por- trait painted in 1816 by John Vanderlyn 674
Famous Colonnade of Temple Street as wrecked by the elm- leaf beetle 676
Hillhouse Avenue in the great days of the elms 677
"The Franklin Elm" planted on the day of Franklin's death, April 17, 1790 678
Temple Street and the Green in the old days
Grove Hall, corner of Church and Grove Streets. In its original state, it was the mansion of James Abraham Hillhouse, foster-father of the Patriot. As enlarged from time to time, it became Grove Hall-a school for young ladies and later a boarding house 68c
General view of the New Haven Green in the great days of the elms taken, I was told, from the top of the Insurance Building 681
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Small park in front of Christ Church 682
The famous Colonnade of Temple Street 683 Louisa Cornelia (Huggins) Tuthill; credited with first call- ing New Haven "The City of Elms" 684
Canopy over the old town pump on the southwest corner of the Green. The original pump had survived from colonial days 686
Dead elm on Elm Street near State Street photographed July 1908, for the author by M. W. Filley 687
Cartoon by Howard Freeman, published in the New Haven Union, April 5, 1909, during the campaign undertaken by the author to rescue the New Haven elms from the ravages of the elm-leaf beetle 688
Another cartoon by Freeman during the campaign to save the elms 689
Amos Doolittle (1754-1832) ; American engraver ; an early Master of old Hiram Lodge, No. I 690
Battle of Lexington ; engraved by Amos Doolittle 692
"Bonaparte in Trouble"; cartoon by Amos Doolittle 693 Doolittle's Linonia Book-plate, dated 1802 694
Ithiel Town (1784-1844) from the portrait by Nathaniel Jocelyn presented by the author to the National Acad- emy of Design 696
Center Church; built 1812-14, before its restoration to its original appearance 698
Center Church; built 1812-14, after its restoration in 1912 to its original appearance by removing the paint which had masked its beautiful Flemish bond brickwork since 1845 and by repainting its woodwork white instead of a motley drab 700
Scale drawing of the façade of Center Church by the late · Leoni W. Robinson, sometime supervising architect of the fabric
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The Farmington Meetinghouse, 1771-72, showing its incom- parable spire 702
Detail of the spire of the Farmington Meetinghouse, 1771-72 703 Detail of the finial and vane of Center Church, New Haven, 1812-14 703 An eastern view of the New Haven Green from "American Scenery" by N. P. Willis and W. H. Bartlett, London, 1839 704
Residence and Library of Ithiel Town, New Haven; built in 1832 705
Medal struck in 1838 to commemorate the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of New Haven 706
The North or United Church on the Old Green, 1813-15; masterpiece of David Hoadley (1774-1839) 707
Tower of North Church on the Green, 1813-15
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The portico (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) of the Bristol House by David Hoadley 710
Portico of the De Forest House 7II
The De Forest House, 1819-21, by David Hoadley 712
Gateway and garden fence of the De Forest House by David Hoadley 713
David Curtis ("Don David Cortez") De Forest, as painted in riding dress in 1823 by S. F. B. Morse 714
"The Donna Julia" De Forest (née Julia Wooster), painted about 1823 by S. F. B. Morse in the costume in which she appeared at the "court" of President Madison . ... James Gates Percival (1795-1856, Yale College 1815). "Our own Percival," as Professor Beers called the poet .
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716 Entrance to the Nathan Smith House; built 1816-18 by David Hoadley 717 Wrought-iron urns and railings flanking the front entrance of the Nathan Smith House 718
Façade of the Russell Mansion, 1828, on High Street in Middletown; built by David Hoadley 719
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Side view of the Russell Mansion now owned by Wesleyan University, and still one of the chief architectural orna- ments of Middlesex County 719
Tablet erected in 1915 in the vestibule of North Church by the author to the memory of David Hoadley 720
Contemporary crystal chandelier in the North Church, as photographed prior to its partial restoration 721
Memorial to Isaac Allerton, Mayflower passenger who is buried in New Haven 722
Detail view of the memorial arch, forming the chief feature of the Court of Honor of the "New Haven Week" cele- bration of 1912 723
Henry Austin (1804-1891), architect; designer of the Old College Library ; a pupil of Ithiel Town 724
The Moses Yale Beach Mansion, Wallingford; built about 1850; Henry Austin, architect. 724
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