Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-03-21
New Buildings.

FrAvate Restdenees in Various Parts Of
the Ctty-BlOcks and Single Houses
Plans for More.
As gentle spring advances with its prevail
ing infuenzas and other concomitants of its
Advancement, the masons begin to unearth
their trowels and other signs of building OPP
erations are apparent. The cellar excavation
for new block of two brick residences on
West Chapel street, south side, near York, is
nearly completed. The block will be erected
by Mr.. F. r. Bliss and viii be three stories
high and about sixty feet front by seventy
deep. One Of the houses win be occupied
by DR.. Walker. The front OF the houses
will be Of pressed brick, with brown stone
trimmings, and will cost with the internal
improvements about $4,000.
Mr.. Cook, son of Mr.. George Cook, is
about erecting residence in Orange on the
Milford road, about half a mile from New
Haven.
On st. Roman street handsome house is
to be erected by Mr.. Taylor, of Waterbury,
who will occupy il. for his residence. It will
cost s., 600 or $40, 600 to build.
Mr.. Street, of East Haven, doing business
on Grown street, has plans for new resi-
dence for himself to be erected in East Haven
Centsr on the main street ru4ning toward
the Cove from near the old stone church.
Rev. Mr.. Bryant. of South Britain, whose
wife is the daughter of DIR. D. A. Tyler Of
this city, has out plans for the erection of 6
substantial residence on Elm street, West
Haven. Il will stand near the Wells resi-
dence. The work will begin soon. Mr..
Bryant has resigned his pastorate in South
Britain and will remove to this city. Plans
for all of the above houses were prepared
by Mr.. r. g. Russell, of this city.
The new brick building to be- erected by
Ex-Governor English on Grown street,
between Peck's Grand Opera House and
Church street, will be four stories, with
pressed brick front and granite trimmings
The three upper stories will be for tenements,
a fiat for each floor, the first for store pur-
poses. Each fat will have five rooms-four
en- suite. Gov. English has plans in the
works for building ten dwellings on the large
lot corner of Wooster and Warren Streets
six on Wooster and four on Warren. The
old wooden dwelling on the land will be torn
down. It was built by Captain Solomon
Oollls, father of Solomon Coils, the carriage
maker. The erection of the new houses
will be commenced about May LIST. Also
about July LIST Mr. English will build a four
story addition eighty feet deep to Bristol &
Sons store on Chapel street.
Another block of two houses is to be erect
cd before long on Grown street, north side,
adjoining the block on the corner of Grown
and York, by the Gilbert estate. It will be
nearly opposite the Major Bisssll residence.
To make room for it an old wooden dwelling
on the site will be torn down. The represen-
tatives of the Gilbert estate built the nice
block on the corner Of Grown and York, also
built the new brick building occupied in part
by MIR. Clark, the grocer.
Mr.. G. F. Beckley, the fancy good mer-
chant, has erected three good houses on
Howard avenue, short distance from the
Green wich avenue school. They are now
being finished inside.
Mr.. A. j. Patience, the grocer on the
corner of Kimberly avenue and First
street, is just completing residence on the
west side of the avenue a few doors below
his well-known store. 1t stands on an ample
lot well back from the street and will be one
of the best in that section; a. two family
water and bath rooms, double parlors with
folding doors and each fsmily's apartments
distinct and separate. The interior ia well
arranged. fms view of the Sound and
harbor is reached from the upper windows.
This location has been much improved
through the enterprise and foresight
of Mr.. Patience, who has erected sew
eral houses on the east or southeast SIDE
Strengthening the lots which were before
at an angle from the street. He owned 200
feet of the land on this side. The Greenwich
avenue school stands close by on land sold by
Mr.. Patience to the city. He has also erected
two houses on Spring street. Mr.. B. F.
Humphreys, the West Haven carpenter and
builder, who erected about dozen houses in
West Haven last year, is the architect and
contractor for the new house above spoken
of. Engineer Fisher, who bought one of Mr..
Patience's houses on the east side of the
avenue, is erecting another house next his
own. The cellar is now being excavated.
Mr.. Patience's store occupies part of the
land where stood the factory of the Shonin-
ger Organ company which was burned down
years ago. Mr.. Patience was a contractor at
the factory for years.