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One of the handsomest buildings for mercantile purposes in the city, has been completed in the past year by Gen. S. E. Merwin, situated on State street, replacing an ancient stone building occupied by the firm, and Strong, Hart & Co., which many years ago was a fashionable residence. The entire front of the new structure is of Philadelphia pressed brick, suitably adorned with handsome stone trimmings, and the building, which contains a large amount of room, is occupied by the firm with which Gen. Merwin is promi- nently identified, and by Strong, Hart & Co, for their extensive meat market business.
The Courier Building, where has been published the Journal and Courier, the oldest newspaper in the State, for forty years past, by John B. Carring-
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ton, Esq., is receiving an extensive addition in the rear to be occupied by the Blackman Manufacturing Company, additional to the room they already occupy. Horeb Lodge, I. O. B. B. Hall, in the same building, has just re- ceived an entire renovation, which has made it one of the handsomest, if not the handsomest, lodge rooms pertaining to a lodge of this quite extensive order, in the country.
One of the most important buildings in the city is the new City Court House, or Police Department building, just completed and recently thrown open to public inspection, on which occasion thousands visited it and view- ed its ample and elegant accommodations. The building is a companion- piece, so to speak, to the handsome City Hall and the new County Court House, occupying ground in close proximity to those also fine buildings, though fronting on another street. Its front is of the best Philadelphia pressed brick, with handsome stone trimmings, and elegant plate glass windows, and contains rooms ample in size, occupied respectively by the Police Department, the City Court, the officers of that court, the Board of Police Commissioners, and the Board of Health. The patrolmen's sitting- room is as large as many public halls, and in the highest story is another room of about equal size devoted to the use of the police for purposes of drill. The office of the Chief of Police, as are all the offices, are handsome apartments ; and, in short, the whole structure is well adapted to the in- creased wants of the city with its population of nearly 60,000, and is an ornament to the city. The oldest inhabitant, and many who are far from aged, can well remember when the late Sheriff Knevals and a few policemen sufficed to inspire evil doers with the terrors of the law, such was the thin- ness of the population in comparison with that of to-day. The entire cost of the new building, with furniture and et-ceteras, will be about $75,000.
There has been erected also by the city in the past year, a new steamer house in Edwards street, a fine street in the northern part of the city. It is of North Haven brick with suitable trimmings, and is surmounted with a tower, and its arrangement is upon the most improved plan. The steamer room, rooms for the permanent men, stables and fire alarm apparatus, are finely adapted to their several purposes, and the city, a short time since, placed in the house at a cost of $3,500, a new steamer of most approved workmanship, built by Jeffers, at Pawtucket, R. I. It is named A. C. Hen- drick, after the chief engineer of the fire department, a man eminently qualified for the position, in the opinion of all. The city's fire apparatus, houses and the force, are held up as a model in other cities of the Union. The steamer house of No. 3, built a number of years ago, in an early period in steam fire engine history, is receiving extensive improvements, and the department has recently received an additional protection against fire in a new fire escape and extension ladder of the most approved pattern.
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Mr. John H. Coley has at a cost of thousands of dollars, given his build- ing on Chapel street a new front of Philadelphia pressed brick, added to its height and otherwise increased its capacity, beside changing the interior into fine offices.
The corner stone for a new Convent and Parish School, for St. John's Catholic Church, was recently laid with imposing ceremonies, and witnessed by thousands of members of the Catholic church in this city. The new structure will have a quite extensive front on South street, opposite the South street public school, and be flanked by a wing at each end. The material will be North Haven brick, with trimmings of Ohio stone and decorative bricks of fancy color, slated roof, and the building will contain ample accommodations for school purposes, and for the Sisters, including reception rooms, work rooms, dormitories, and a Chapel for the public devotional exercises. The work will cost in the neighborhood of $35,000.
A new and fine building has been erected on Church street, corner of George, by ex-Gov. English, and is now finished. The corner store has been taken by Dr. Andrews, late of Westfield, Mass., and formerly of this city, who has fitted it up for the drug business in fine style, and. the upper part is occupied for manufacturing purposes.
A work of importance and general interest to New Haven, is the erection of the new passenger depot for the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Co. at the foot of Meadow street, which work is now rapidly progress- ing. The depot occupied for twenty years, or more, past, by the company, has long been found inadequate to the greatly increased business of the company, hence the new enterprise. It will have an exterior of Hartford pressed brick, with trimmings of Portland brown stone, and will be in length two hundred and seventy feet, in width fifty-five feet, and be sur- mounted by three short towers. The passenger department will occupy a large space central in the structure, in length about one hundred and seventy feet, width, the width of the building, and with a height of eighteen feet in the clear. In the east end will be a baggage room fifty feet long by twenty-five wide, and eighteen and a half feet high, and in the west end an express room, similar in size. Outside, citywards, will be a covered platform nearly a thousand feet long and twenty-five feet wide; beyond this two tracks, outside of these another covered platform one thousand feet long and twenty-five feet wide, and outside of this two more tracks. At either end of the depot will be a covered platform, each of them three hundred and sixty feet long and twenty-five feet wide, and three tracks will approach from each end. The work, it is expected, will be finished in a few months.
The contract for building the piers and abutments of the new bridge over the Quinnipiack river, to connect the southern portion of Fair Haven with
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the portion of the town of East Haven nearest the city, has been awarded and the work has been commenced. The new bridge will prove a great public convenience and form a new avenue of direct communication between New Haven and East Haven, which will be conducive to the growth of the localities immediately benefitted as well as to the public at large. The piers and abutments will cost about $66,000. Fair Haven, southern portion. has grown until there is little room for its expansion in this section, and already the territory across the river is dotted with dwellings and has several im- portant business enterprises, among them the Wire Works of Wheeler & Co., and the Chemical Works.
The Fair Haven and Westville Horse Railroad Company, owing to its increasing business, is building at the terminus of its route in Westville the Eighth ward of the town, buildings in which will be provided stable room, a car house and a waiting room for passengers. The masons are now at work upon the foundations. More than one-and-a-half million of passengers were carried last year by this road, which was the pioneer horse railroad company in New Haven.
The Whitneyville Horse Railroad, connecting Whitneyville, a suburb of New Haven named in honor of the inventor of the cotton gin, with the center of the city, has been put in successful operation, and is equipped with fine cars and other accommodations. The track runs through one of the most beautiful suburban portions of New Haven, adorned with numer- ous fine residences with ample grounds, and embracing fine sites for others, and specially beautiful when the old trees which line the avenue put forth their spring foliage.
Since our last issue, the Davenport Congregational Church, a handsome edifice, sixty feet long and one hundred and fifty deep, with a tower one hundred and forty feet high, has been erected on Green street, facing the park known as Wooster Square, and a few weeks since was dedicated to divine worship. The society is one of our youngest, but is very enterpris- ing and already very flourishing. The structure is of brick with handsome trimmings of stone, with seating capacity of over one thousand, and has in the rear a very attractive Chapel with capacity for seating several hundred, and connected with which are a sewing circle room and a well arranged kitchen. The church is supplied with a fine organ of the celebrated Hook make, Boston. The merits of the same were exhibited by Dudley Buck, the composer, recently, at an exhibition concert, which was largely attended.
Dr. F. J. Whittemore has erected a fine block four stories high, on Chapel street opposite the Colleges, with Philadelphia pressed brick front and stone trimmings, and containing three roomy and attractive stores, one of which is occupied by Mr. Beers, the druggist. Above the stores are accommoda- tions adapted to fashionable boarding.
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The town of New Haven voted a few months since to purchase a new Town Farm and erect a new Alms House, and steps in that direction have been taken. Owing to the growth of New Haven, the city has lapped into the territory known as the old town farm, which has therefore become highly valuable for building purposes. The old town farm was purchased through the foresight of ex-Gov. English. The price paid for the whole place was the extraordinary sum of $4,000. It is now valued at over three hundred thousand dollars-a slight increase in valuation. Honor to ex-Gov. English for his foresight and enterprise.
The Court Street Synagogue has been much improved in the past year, internally and externally.
Ex-Mayor Welch has a new and elegant residence nearly completed on West Chapel street. In the same portion of the city many new and expen- sive residences, and many residences of a superior class have been erected in the past few years.
Mr. Geo. W. Staples has nearly completed, on Trumbull street, near Hill- house avenue, one of the finest blocks for private residences in the city.
Nelson Adams has erected a 810,000 residence on Whalley avenue. E. Y. Foote has erected a block on Oak street. William Gay has just com- pleted a block of two residences on York street, between Crown and George, and in York street, in the same locality, Samuel J. Hoggson and William A. Beers are erecting handsome blocks of residences, on opposite sides of the street. Julius Tyler, jr has added another attractive residence to Dwight Place. Ex-Councilman Philip Hugo has erected a substantial thirty thousand dollar block on Grand street, corner of Bradley. The Shoninger Organ company is erecting an extension to their large manu- factory, facing toward Chapel street. Ex-Mayor Sperry has made wharf and building improvements at Barnesville Bridge. The New Haven Nut Company's shops in Westville, which were destroyed by fire a number of months ago, have been replaced with substantial brick buildings; also, the Gorman Match Factory, destroyed in the same fire, has been rebuilt. The new and handsome block of the Messrs. Todd, on State street, corner of Elm, and containing six stores, is now nearly finished. In the upper part a large public hall has been arranged.
The new wing of the State Hospital has been completed and is occupied. It is an extensive building of handsome appearance, an ornament to the city, and a monument to State and private munificence and liberality. Its cost was about $80,000. The design is, at no distant day, to erect a companion wing of similar importance and style of architecture.
The city has not been idle the past year in reference 10 street improve- ments. Much has been done; miles more of streets have been laid in the standard Telford pavement, and thousands more feet of sewers have been
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laid, his Honor, the Mayor, and the City Government, further currying forward the plan, derived from able authority on the subject, for giving to New Haven a complete and thorough system of drainage.
The New Haven Water Company has added miles more of pipe, especially in the western part of the city, to keep pace with the growth of residences in new streets, and scores of new gas lamps have been located in newly built up sections of the town.
The location of a coal depot, by the New Jersey Railroad, capable of con- taining very many thousand tons, is to be accomplished soon, in all proba- bility; and Tomlinson's Bridge, that venerable and time-worn structure, is to receive a new draw which shall be worked by steam; and for which all navigators shall rise up and call the Hartford Railroad Company blessed.
On St. Mary's Catholic Church, in process of erection on Hillhouse avenue, probably $75,000 more has been spent in the past year. The building will be completed next autumn, and will be finished at a cost of about $175,000.
Application has been made to the legislature for a charter for a new horse railroad to run from East Haven center to the new depot, via the new bridge to be built over the Quinnipiack river. A branch of the West Haven Horse Railroad to run to the Evergreen Cemetery, is to be built, probably, at an early date. It will run through a comparatively new, yet populous and well-built portion of the city.
Another new building, a credit to the city, is the Second National Bank Building, corner of Chapel and Union streets, which has a handsome front. Upon the first floor are two stores, and the commodious and stylish banking house of the bank ; above are offices and the elegant company rooms of the New Haven Grays, and the entire floor above is occupied by the armory of the same noted and honored organization. The armory and rooms of the com- pany rank with the finest and most elegant in the country. Its adornments, furniture and cases are of a very superior character. The armory has a floor space almost equal in extent to that of Music Hall, the largest public hall in the city, and is unencumbered with pillars, presenting a clear space, making a splendid drill hall, and hall for promenades and receptions, for which the company is famous.
A new chapel, the East Rock M. E. Mission Chapel, has been erected upon Edwards street, at a cost of about $7,500. It has a seating capacity of several hundred. A new Catholic Church has been erected on George street, of brick, with a seating capacity for seven hundred. The worshipers are mainly of the German speaking members of that faith.
The Home for the Friendless, for the reformation of erring women, has been enlarged and otherwise improved recently, adding to its means of usefulness.
The New Haven Dispensary, where medicines and medical advice are
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bestowed free upon the needy, has done much good. The applications for aid from December 1st, 1871, when the institution was first placed in opera- tion, to February 1st, 1874, were over 5000. From 200 to 300 applications per month has been the average in the past few months.
The growth in population during the past year is more than double that of 1873. We present the following facts: Erasures of individuals and firms, 2,660. Changes of address, 3,300. Additions of individuals and firms, 3,820. Total number of changes, 9,780. Gain in names, 1,160.
A few words, personally, to my friends and patrons of New Haven, with whom I have had dealings and been associated during more than a quarter of a century past. It is known that persons hailing from some indefinite locality out of the State, have, regardless of the rights of others, and pur_ suing, to say the least, a questionable course, not sanctioned by any legiti- mate code of ethics, attempted to usurp my business, and oust an old cit. izen. It is simply an attempt to appropriate the good will, the patron- age, and the old established business of another. These make-shift, tran- sient interlopers, impudent and bare-faced, without the honor of a boot black, crowd in here to appropriate to themselves what I have labored long years to establish, and without cause or excuse. Let the people judge be- tween me and them. Some of their nefarious schemes have been brought to light in this city, and the citizens of Providence, R. I., or of Cambridge, Mass., can throw further light in the same direction. I have, perhaps noticed these individuals more than they are entitled to, but I will say to them that an honorable course, if they can understand the term "honor," is the best.
To the citizens of New Haven I would say, that I purpose to continue in " the even tenor of my way," and to publish a reliable City Directory in the future, as I have done in the past twenty-nine years, with general acceptance, and until such time as the public by the withdrawal of patron- age shall ask me to step aside and give place to strangers.
For the many kind words and assurances of support, which I have re- ceived from my fellow-citizens, I return my warmest thanks.
J. H. BENHAM.
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NEW HAVEN STREET AND AVENUE DIRECTORY.
EXPLANATION.
It will be noticed that in this Street Directory the names of the streets are set down in alpha- betical order, giving the course which they run, according, as near as possible, to the points of the compass, and enumerating all streets which cross the same in the order in which they occur. ABBREVIATIONS .- N. for North ; N. E. for North-east; N. W. for North-west ; S. for South ; S. E. for South-east ; S. W. for South-west ; E. for East; W. for West.
177 Redfield
191 West
151 Court
193 Elm
235 Wall
227 Downes
BUTLER, N from Ivy to Goodrich
15 Railroad Ave.
25 East
State to 307 Orange
26 Mansfield to 63 Canal
CANAL, N. from 15 Lock to Hamden line
11 Sachem
34 Bristol
60 Webster
63 Compton
128 Brewery
110 Munson
138 Academy
136 Argyle
149 Olive
33 Poplar 53 Fillmore
244 Liberty
247 Rose
182 Thompson
212 R. R. depot
CLIFF, W. from 380
222 Ivy
227 State
231 Highland
287 Orange
240 Bassett
855 Church
247 Harriet
Public Square
CLINTON AVE., from
290 Goodrich Morse
420 Leflingwell Sq.
53 S. L. Railway
22 Court
110 Webster
Canal to 295 Dixwell Avenue
59 State
ADELINE, S. W. from 56 West to West river 31 Eddy
146 Gregory
Shepard Butler
88 Barclay
165 Henry
Shelton
BRADLEY PLACE, 23 Bradley
Orange Whitney ave.
573 Dwight
193 Dover
COTTAGE, W. from
ADMIRAL, W. from 162 Ashinun to 123 Dixwell
ASYLUM, N. from 337 Congress Ave. to 260 Oak
Watson Canal R. R.
BREWERY, N from 113 Water to 128 Chapel
ALBERT, W. from Clinton Ave. to State
43 Davenport Ave. 61 Sylvan Ave.
BEECH, W. from Mill River to 571 State Mill River East Wallace
33 Wooster
88 Cedar
688 Sherman Ave.
COHANZIE AVE., N. from May to city line.
ALLING, S. from 176 Portsea to 153 Put- nam
nue 91 S. L. Railway 95 Pine
BEERS, N. from 665 Chapel to 340 Elm 87 Martin
BROWN, N. from 97 Water to 94 Wooster
174 Alling
719 Winthrop Ave. 743 Norton
CARMEL AVE, from 203 Whalley ave. to Goffe
CHARLES, W from 114 Dixwell Ave. to 421 Orchard
149 George to 100 Grove
54 Union
ANDERSON, N.E.from 20 Willow to Cold Spring 11 Canner
209 English 235 Dover 257 Bailey
BISHOP, N. W. from 570 State to 381 Or- ange
BRIDGE, E. from 11 East to the Railroad 7 Forbes' Place 13 Water
CASTLE, W. from Fer- ry Path to James 47 Main 53 Bank
CHATHAM, from Front to Fillmore
50 Chapel
151 Church
ARCH, N. from 149 AUDUBON, N. W.
from 222 Orange to 21 Whitney Ave.
BLAKE, N. from 287 Whalley Ave. to city limit
BRISTOL, W. from 84 Canal to 89 Dixwell Avenue 25 Ashmun
CEDAR, N. from Lam- berton to june Dav- enport Ave. and York
Ferry Poplar
East to 19 Franklin 17 Wallace 39 Hamilton
144 State to 49 Howe 3ยบ Orange 79 Church
87 R. R. crossing 107 Spring
145 Putnam
167 Carlisle
168 Public Square
183 Portsea
59 Liberty
209 Columbus
75 Cedar
239 Derby railroad
92 Salem
DAVENPORT AVE.,
241 Silver
249 Prince
CHRISTOPHER, S. fr 10 Columbus to 11 Portsea
125 Washington 125 Hallock
18 Cedar
153 Arch
19 York
ASHMUN, N. from cor. York and Grove to 13 Munson
BALDWIN, S from 82 Davenport Avenue to 887 Congress Avenne
BRADLEY, N. from 191 Grand to 73 Whit- ney Avenue 24 Lyon
85 York Square 100 Howe
CEDAR HILL AVE., from State to Grace CENTER, from Orange
73 George to 54 Grove 45 Crown 74 Center
158 Portsea 161 White
53 Asylum
34 York Sq. Place 48 Pierpont Court BARCLAY, N. W. from
23 Bradley Place
ACADEMY, N. from 138 Chapel to 138 Greene
65 Lock 79 Bristol
77 Frank to 78 Ade- line
30 William
37 Madison
88 Eaton
BASSETT, W. from 240
47 Leonard
447 Yale College
97 Grafton
485 High
117 Chatham
511 York
189 Lombard
538 Park
163 Peck
558 Howe
171 English
595 Gill
215 Bailey
42 Foster to 365 Or- ange
67 Liberty
651 Orchard 665 Beers
COUNTY, N. from 155 Whalley Ave. to City line
106 Salem
710 Derby Ave.
157 De Witt
715 Fountain Park
COLD SPRING, W. from Anderson to 283 Whitney Avenue Orange
COURT, W. from 80 Academy to Public Square
ALTON, from Ferry Path to Mill River
151 Chatham
177 Lombard
BIRCH, (Cedar Hill), W. from Rock to Sy- camore
471 Elin to 288 Whal- Jey Ave.
70 State
23 Crown
117 Orange
CAVE, W. from Canal to Newhall
Clinton Ave.
Atwater
Rowe
COLLIS, W. from 16 CROWN, N. W. from
ARGYLE, W. from 136 Canal to 187 Dixwell Avenue
George to 3 Cedar 10 Broad st. Court
110 Temple
25 Newhall
142 College
29 Canal R R
174 High
57 Shelton Ave.
201 York
ARTHUR, N. from 58 Lamberton to 83 Ro- sette
Downing Maltby
Clinton Ave.
113 Howard Ave
W. from 72 Oak to West bridge
ARTISAN, N. E. from 49 Court to 338 Grand
Atwater Rowe
BOND, S from 488 Congress Ave to 211 Columbus
BROADWAY, N. W. from 172 York to june Dixwell Avenue and Goffe st , and 2 Whal- ley Avenue Park
277 Washington 309 Congress Ave. 339 Broad
CHURCH, N. E. from
158 Frank
37 Vernon
Derby R. R.
47 Ward
79 Elliott
BUTTON, from 105 Lamberton to 82 Ro- sette
to Temple, between Crown and Chapel CHAPEL, N. W. from Mill River to West River
119 Chapel
Public Square
BURNS, from 321 Whit- ney Ave. to Everitt
43 Wallace
59 Hamilton
CONGRESS AVE , W.
85 Franklin
CLARK AVE., from Lamberton to West River, between Kim- berly Avenue and
Railroad
from 76 George, junc. Meadow to W. bridge 72 Hill 77 Oak
161 Lafayette
to Ferry Path
164 Washington
170 Division
211 Union
75 Jackson
200 Hazel
214 R. R. bridge
Whitney Avenue to Reservoir and Pros- pect
333 Vernon 353_Ward
856 Daggett
270 Reed
376 Hailock;
400 Temple
E. Grand to City line. 11 Granniss
387 Baldwin
408 Arch 413 Ann
CANNER, N W. from 140 Nicoll to St. Ronan
448 College
75 Pine
128 Foote
97 Orange
111 Lincoln
Foster Anderson
CARLISLE, W. from 329 Water to 180|
618 Day
Washington
633 Kensington
Middletown av Lyman Albert
ATWATER, fr. Grand to Middletown Ave-
BREWSTER, W. from Shelton Ave. to Dix- well Ave.
Spireworth Sq.
705 Hotchkiss
10 Carlisle
125 Grafton
22 Olive
COLLEGE, N. E. from
44 Artisan
Columbus to 408 Con- gress Avenue 26 West Lane ASH, from Rock to Sy- camore
AUBURN, N. from 159 Sylvan Avenue to 49 Mulberry 25 (ak 86 Fayette
BLATCHLEY AVE., from Quinnipiac river to Clay
BROAD, W. from 168
CHERRY ANN. from
89 Gregson
AVON, N. W. from 64 Foster to 375 Orange
18 River 29 East Chapel
45 Saltonstall Av
24 Lafayette
BROAD ST. COURT, E. from 10 Broad
CHESTNUT, N. from 79 Water to 108 St John 37 Wooster 58 Chapel Greene
12 Christopher
BAILEY, from Front to Ferry
69 Wolcott Ave. 99 Exchange 109 E. Grand
21 Oak
328 Dixwell to Beaver COLUMBUS, W. from Pond
291 Water, junc. La- fayette to W. Bridge
Downing Maltby
Public Square Yale College
97 Elm 129 Wall
CRESCENT, N. from 301 Goffe to city limit Munson
Goffe
BROWNELL, N. from
448 Redfield
473 West
162 Admiral
488 Bond
528 Downes
Goodyear
255 Cedar
304 Howard Ave.
859 Asylum
374 Gregson
CLAY, from 180 Ferry
101 Chestnut 118 Wooster Place Wooster Sq.
CLARK, N.E. from 520 COMPTON, W. from
204 Hedge 211 Bond
238 Park
122 Howard ave.
418 White
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82 Baldwin 91 Orchard
DOW, S. W. from 186 George to 63 Oak DUMMER, from Good- year to Dixwell ave. Watson Gem DWIGHT, N. E. from 219 Oak to 50 Whalley Avenue
44 Derby R. R. 60 Adeline
dletown ave. to Ly- man
214 William 222 Madison 229 Summer FRANK, S. W. from 154 Columbus to 77 Barclay
115 Webster
63 Sixth
167 Foote
101 Fifth
177 Munson Park
139 Fourth
193 Orchard
220 County
183 Third 227 Second 273 First
HENRY, W. from 175 Ashmun, near junc. Munson to Crescent 113 Dixwell av 151 Orchard
DAY, N. from 257 Oak to 137 Martin 63 George 99 Chapel
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