Morning journal and courier., 1883-12-29
NEW RAVENS ELsIS A&} GREEN Descriptions, Hlst4rieai lteEE aad An. ecdotes Of PeFs0es aud Th;ses Gan-
 Heeted Fherewitls.
BY HENRY HOWE. Copyrighted 1883 by Henry Hbxe.l

] Tho First Church on the GrssII- -The Sec
 ond Characteristics of the Ftst Court
 House, County Rouae Jail ald Gram
 mar Sch0oI-Fae First YalS College
 BuSIdIng-The Bin. Desttna House
 New Brick and Fair Havenl Meeting
 H.usss-New BrtcS State Hou9 built In
 1z63-NhEppingP Post-Seiecsisg a Pig
 The Green from an early date w E place for public structures. In 1G39, tip year af- ter the foundation of our city, was legnn the building of the first meeting house. It stood upon or near tho site of the liberty keie. It was of wood about 50 feet square. she con- gregation were called together by th4beat of a drum military gDacd was statilned in the house, which was surmounted byk tower in which was stationed sentinel to i've an alarm in case of any sudden ineuzsionpf hos tile Indians. Around the church wereN three pieces of artillery ready for use. It Rtood only about thirty years. The map of qeneE- al WadsHorth shows every house in tdFn in 1749. The buildings then upon the Green were as follows: The successor to the aAove, 8 second church. begun in 1GSS near tha site of the first. It had pyraaidal roof, dpon tho top of shich was hung bell rung Iy 8 person standing in the broad aisle benet ettb. In those days the congregations had seatsas- sigEsd them ;n the church according to their ages a1d rank in society. They were tot seated ia families, but the males were placed on one side of the church and the women or the other. The Yale students for long term of years attended this church, paying there at one period two shillings each per annunl and shilling entrance fee On the Green on the line of College street, opposite Far nam college, were four buildings in TOW viz, the first State aud Court House, built ir 17i7, county house, jail and grammar school A littlo building, probably school house, stood on the sita of the North church. The only other object of interest on the Green was the burfing ground which occupied the site of. the Center church, and the iand around it, most Of that of the State House, 1T all perhaps three acres.
 Facing the Green were two important structures. and both painted blue. One wal Vale college, built in 17l7 the first struc ture. It was of wood, three stories ir heiehs. and contained nearly fifty studies. Il stood nearly up to the fence of the campus at the corper of College and Chapel streets the identical spot where the students annual Iy assemble to give away the fence. The other structure vas a church which stood al the corner of Elm and Church streets facing the latter and was called the Blue meeting house The society which worshipped therein was called the White Haven society. Why called White Haven" no one now knows. and to Leonard Bacon in his life time it Tas an enigma. The pigments used to produce the blue were lamp black and white lead. Some people have thought the name had theological significance. There were seven other buildings. dwellings, ID town, painted blue, which doubtless were regarded es extra-elegant; thirty y-seVen paint ed red and the rest uDpainted. White paint was then too costly for such purpose, being made purely of white lead with no admixture of barytes If the hue obtained by an un- painted country house by years of exposure could be got by large money expenditure and only in that way, 1t would often be adopted bg gentlemen for their country resi- dsnces, for it is tint that hsrmoBizes sd- mirably with natures surroundings. Noth- ing is more picturesque than an old-iime brown country house in setting of skrub bery with here and there brilliant tinted flowers peepiDg out amid the dark shades Such places have a home look, which is wherein many baroDial looking mansions are totally wanting. The oppressive idea oi poverty which now accompanies the sight oi such residence is its main dra.baok.
 Soon after the publication of the Wads made on the Green. In 1757 the new brick meeting house was built. It stood mostly in front of the Center church and 1t remained until 1912. In 1772 the Fair Haven society an offshoot from the White Haven or But meeting house society, built on the site oi