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Title	Bridgeport historic building 007
Town	Bridgeport
Subject - LCSH	Bridgeport (Conn.); Dwellings
Keywords	Historic homes; Old houses
About the survey data	The text in the following fields, up to the Tell Us More field, is transcribed from a survey form that accompanies the photograph.
Date [built] (Source)	1759 (marker); decorative details look later, possibly 1790; about 1808? (EDK)
Orig Owner	Thomas Brothwell
Present Owner [1935-37]	Mrs. James C. Mizer
Location	Southwest corner of 1795 North and Park Aves. South side of North Ave., facing north. [North Avenue Section]
Description [Material]	Wood
Roof	Peak
Chimney Type/No.of	Brick / end / 2
Height	Two stories and half
Fenestration	9 window front paired; 12 over 12 sash ; windows have caps and there is a frieze.
Overhang	None
Foundation	Stone, high, rough
Condition - Physical	Good
Authenticity	Fairly original, c. 1810.
Exterior	The house is all of white clapboards, with a new porch on the west side; also a new flat-roof ell to the rear. All front windows have elaborately molded heads and there is a bay window on the east side. Elaborately molded cornice and rakes have dentil course; the second story gable end windows also have molded heads. Large cherry tree to the west of the house.
Doorway	There is a new pediment over the doorway supported by two free-standing columns. Sunk panel doors. Leaded semi-elliptical fanlight with eagle.
Interior	Central hall, two-thirds through house; stair on left, with round rail, square balusters. Plain, open stringer; no mouldings. Northeast room has a sunburst mantel; high entablature. It is not large and the sunbursts are not incised. Bowed mantel. Deeply grooved, short pilasters. Like the stairs it looks c. 1820. In the northwest room the sunburst is double. The four front-room fireplaces are practically alike. Kitchen is in the southeast room with very high mantel. Brick fireplace and oven on right. Very plain. Southwest room has 1850 mantel, and the old back door flush panel with four-light toplights. Doors, 5 flush panels, sunk panels on reverse. New floors.
History	Though Isaac Young of Stratford bought here in 1758, and sold his 5 acres with a new dwelling, in 1760, to Gabriel Ludlow of New York, this can not be the dwelling. In 1767, Ludlow sold to Cable who ran a tavern. Old pictures show this as a salt-box house with a five-window front. The present house must have been built on this site, and perhaps on the foundation of the old salt-box. On April 11, 1808, the Gable Estate sold to Thomas Brothwell (Vol. 32 of 195), and it must be supposed from the architecture of the present building that this is the house he built. January 14, 1829 he sold to John F. Brothwell, and January 29 it came back to Thomas. August 10, 1835 he sold it to James P. Stewart; he in 1844 to Emory Brothwell, and March 31, 1845 to James E. Beach. In 1852 it went to Clarissa Beardsly; in 1865 back to Sarah Ann Brothwell, James E. and Caroline E. Beach. December 19, 1885 to Julia or Wm. Graff. September 18, 1907 to Miss Della M. Owen, now Mrs. James C. Mizer.
Tell Us More	Tell us more about the building, its history, its address, etc. mailto: CSL.diginfo@ct.gov Put the Title in the email Subject line.
Creator	W.P.A. Federal Writers Project, State of Connecticut
Date - Created	1935-1942
Date - Digital	2004 Oct. 20
Collection	WPA Architectural Survey
Type	image
Format	jpeg
Language	eng
Source - Original	Photograph, b&w, 4 x 6 in.; Pre-printed form, b&w, 11 x 8.5 in. with typescript
Source - Location	Connecticut State Library, State Archives, RG 033:28, WPA Records, Architectural Survey
Relation	http://www.cslib.org/OldHouse.htm
Publisher	Connecticut State Library
Rights	Digital Image © Connecticut State Library. All rights reserved. Images may be used for personal research or non-profit educational uses without prior permission. For permission to publish or exhibit, see Reproduction and Publication of State Library Collections, http://www.cslib.org/repropub.htm
File Name	wpa_archsurvey_brdp007.jpg
Height	744