Preface Map of the 100 Places OVERVIEW: CONNECTICUT AND ITS PLACES Looking at Architecture The Land History PART ONE: SHAPING THE LANDSCAPE The First Builders: Mohegan Hill, Uncasville Colonial Framework: Main Street, South Windsor Garden by the Sea: Eolia (Harkness Memorial State Park), Waterford Reshaping the Landscape: Rocky River Hydroelectric Station, New Milford Modernism in the Garden: The Glass House, New Canaan Landscape on a Grand Scale: Saville Dam and Barkhamsted Reservoir, Barkhamsted The Roar of the Landscape: Lime Rock Park, Salisbury Architecture for the Environment: Kroon Hall, Yale University, New Haven PART TWO: MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES Wood for Stone: New London County Courthouse, New London Something Old, Something New: Noroton Presbyterian Church, Darien Connecticut Stone: Portland Brownstone Quarries, Portland Engineering Beauty: Lover's Leap Bridge, New Milford Buildings from the Assembly Line: Winslow Ames and Steel Houses, New London Inside the Sapphire: First Presbyterian Church, Stamford PART THREE: WHERE WE LIVE For the Middling Sort: Benjamin Hall Jr. House, Guilford Temple Mania: Samuel Russell and William Trench Houses, Middletown Artistic Design: Mark Twain House, Hartford Behind the Scenes: Wallace T. Fenn House, Wethersfield Local Specialty: Perfect Sixes, Hartford Art versus the Machine: Nathaniel R. Bronson House, Middlebury Comfortable Houses: Beaver Hills, New Haven From Cape Cod to Connecticut: Axel Nelson House, Waterford Redesigning the Suburbs: Heritage Village, Southbury PART FOUR: WORKING THE LAND The Business of Farming: Thomas Catlin Jr. Farm, Litchfield Modest Farm: Cyrus Wilson Farm, Harwinton The Rhythm of the Seasons: Tobacco Farms, Windsor Agricultural Showplace: Hilltop Farm, Suffield Connecticut Catskills: Orchard Mansion, Moodus Scientific Farming: Wengloski Poultry House, Lebanon PART FIVE: MEANS OF PRODUCTION Industrial Beginnings: Ledyard Up-Down Sawmill, Ledyard The Company Town: Collinsville Iron Making: Beckley Furnace, North Canaan Industrial Structure and Aesthetics: Hockanum Mill, Rockville The Power of Water: Ousatonic Dam, Derby and Shelton Industrial Specialization: Clark Brothers Factory, Southington Industrial Campanile: Remington Shot Tower, Bridgeport Industry in the Suburbs: Medway Business Park, Meriden and Wallingford Corporate Pride: Union Carbide Headquarters, Danbury PART SIX: TOWNSCAPES AND CITYSCAPES The Ideal Village: Colebrook Center Civic Embellishment: New Haven Green Greater Than Its Parts: Downtown Norwich Under the Mill Towers: North Grosvenordale Consumer Culture: The Arcade, Bridgeport Unnecessary Excellence: Seaside Village, Bridgeport Fantasy Palace: Warner Theatre, Torrington Renewing the City: Constitution Plaza and the Phoenix Building, Hartford New Urbanism: Blue Back Square, West Hartford Suburban Chinatown: Montville PART SEVEN: FROM PLACE TO PLACE Lights along the Shore: Harbor and Ledge Lighthouses, New London Architecture Travels New Roads: Two Houses, Thompson Hill Canal Engineering: Enfield Falls Canal, Windsor Locks and Suffield River Traffic: Steamboat Dock, Essex Gateway to the City: Union Station, New London To Enjoy as We Go: The Merritt Parkway Highway Culture: The Berlin Turnpike, Berlin and Newington PART EIGHT: BODY, MIND, AND SOUL Puritan Finery: First Church of Christ, Wethersfield Schools for All: Little Red School, Winchester The Big House: Middletown Alms House, Middletown Meetinghouse to Church: Warren Congregational Church, Warren Memory and Antiquity: Groton Battle Monument, Groton Church in Society: Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church Complex, Baltic Therapeutic Landscape: The Institute of Living, Hartford Holy Retreat: Plainville Campground, Plainville Model School: Locust Avenue School, Danbury Built for Healing: The Seaside, Waterford Aging Revolutionary: Ansonia High School Comfort for the Dying: Connecticut Hospice, Branford PART NINE: DESIGNERS, BUILDERS, AND CLIENTS Master Builder: Epaphroditus Champion House, East Haddam From the Inside Out: Phelps-Hatheway House, Suffield Architecture from Books: Willis Bristol House, New Haven Under the Radar: Walter Bunce House, Manchester Homes for the People: Barnum-Sherwood Development, Bridgeport Handmade: Avon Old Farms School, Avon When Is a Copy More Than a Copy? Yale Divinity School, New Haven Onion Dome in the Countryside: Saint Philip the Apostle Catholic Church, Ashford Your Taxes at Work: People's State Forest Museum, Barkhamsted The Business of Houses: Broadview Lane, Warehouse Point, East Windsor Modernist Patronage: Torin Company Buildings, Torrington PART TEN: COLONIAL AND COLONIAL REVIVAL English Beginnings: Buttolph-Williams House, Wethersfield The Connecticut House: Deacon Adams House, New Hartford Our Own History: Horace Bushnell Congregational Church, Hartford Inventing Restoration: Hyland House, Guilford American Style: Waterbury City Hall, Waterbury Townwide Makeover: Litchfield The Last Vernacular: Houses by Alice Washburn, Hamden Back to History: Salisbury Town Hall, Salisbury PART ELEVEN: MEANING AND MESSAGE Connecticut Valley Baroque: Ebenezer Grant House, South Windsor Republican Simplicity: Old State House, Hartford Federal Presence: United States Custom House, New London One Style, Two Messages: Two Houses in Plainfield The Architecture of Citizenship: Connecticut State Capitol, Hartford American Renaissance: James Blackstone Memorial Library, Branford Immigrant Success: Villa Friuli, Torrington Native American Renaissance: Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket PART TWELVE: TRANSFORMATIONS How Buildings Learn: Taintor House, Hampton City Beautiful: Downtown Naugatuck Change and Similarity: Canaan Institutional Baptist Church, Norwalk Hazardous Duty: Wilcox, Crittenden & Company Factory, Middletown Model City: Dixwell Plaza, New Haven New Life for Old Buildings: Cheney Yarn Dye House, Manchester Afterword Architectural Glossary Index
