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Title	New Haven historic building 005
Town	New Haven
Subject - LCSH	Dwellings; Stores, retail; Hoadley, David, 1774-1839; New Haven (Conn.)
Keywords	Historic homes; Old houses; Store; David Hoadley
Date [built] (Source)	1815 (marker); 1816 (Mr. Thompson)
Orig Owner	Timothy Bishop (bought of Bishop c. 1905-10)
Present Owner [1935-37]	Thompson Furniture Shop
Location	32 Elm Street; south side between State and Orange Streets.
Description [Material]	Wood
Roof	Peak
Chimney Type/No.of	Brick / end / 2
Height	Two stories and half
Fenestration	2 windows each side of door on 1st floor; 2 windows each side of triple window on second floor; 6/6 sash. Large fan window in pediment. Window heads are fairly delicate, small dentil course. Similar fanlight also on the gable end.
Foundation	Cut stone
Condition - Physical	Good
Exterior	4 fluted Ionic columns with fluted Ionic pilasters at the corners support a rather wide entablature. The columns rest on the protruding stone foundation. There is a peaked pediment in the center of front roof. The pediment projects out towards the front slightly. The cornice runs across the gable end and the cornice has brackets all around. The underpinning is quite high, and affords roomy space in the basement. A similar fanlight to the one on front is also on the gable end. The design of the house is attributed to David Hoadley of New Haven.
Doorway	Leaded sidelights and fanlight at the Dutch, raised panel door. The door is not now used; an iron balcony surrounds the entrance. Originally there were staight wooden stairs, but changes to the street level made a bulkwark necessary and stone steps were put in to lead down to the basement, which is now the main entrance.
Interior	Changed for store use. Entrance now through basement, which is changed. Upstairs is little changed except by addition of stair to third floor from second. Vestibule created in front hall by a new partition with sidelights. Northwest room - has the most elaborate mantel, with two narrow pilasters, fluted, on pedestals raised off the base on little feet. The entablature is flanked by two shorter ones. Boldly projecting mantel. Northeast room - has heavier fluted columns, a very high and rather high entablature and box ornamented with carving. Stair - recessed at right of hall, comes down in a graceful curve, simpler than the Bradley curve. One helix. Round mahogany rail, square dark spindles, small applied moulding under treads. Upper northwest room - very elegant sunburst mantel; large one in box with undercut carving. Erect sunbursts over pilasters. Web carving on edge of shelf. Upper northeast room - simpler mantel with applied bow designs replacing the sunbursts. The right hand stair up from the basement is from Eli Whitney's old house on the corner above; c.1830?; turned balusters; round rail. Has an ivory "peace block" in newel.
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Creator	W.P.A. Federal Writers Project, State of Connecticut
Date - Created	1935-1942
Date - Digital	20111004
Collection	WPA Architectural Survey
Type	image
Format	jpeg
Language	eng
Format Extent	4 x 6 in.
Format Medium	black-and-white photographs
Source - Location	Connecticut State Library, State Archives, RG 033:28, WPA Records, Architectural Survey
Relation	Research Guide to Old House Resources at the Connecticut State Library: http://www.cslib.org/OldHouse.htm
Publisher	Connecticut State Library
Rights	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
File Name	wpa_archsurvey_nehv005.jpg
Height	1221