First Baptist Church Downtown Bridgeport

Joseph Walter Northrop (1860–1940) was an American

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. He practiced in

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and was prominent in that city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Northrop was born in

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on July 8, 1860. In 1882 he moved to

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where he worked for architect George Keller. In 1885 he relocated to Bridgeport to open his own office. He married Mary Alvira (Ogden) Northrop. He had a son, Joseph W. Northrop, Jr. (b. 1886), who would go on to be a prominent architect in

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. Northrop died in Bridgeport May 24, 1940.

Architectural works

Bridgeport, Connecticut

* Isaac W. Birdseye House, 733 Fairfield Ave. (1886) - Demolished * Charles G. Downs House, 127 Broad St. (1887) - Demolished * George Comstock House, 239 Park Ave. (1887) - still extant at the corner of Park Ave and Atlantic St * Benjamin F. Squire House, 1601 Fairfield Ave. (1888–89) - Altered * Edward W. Marsh House, 984 Fairfield Ave. (1888) - Demolished * Frank Ashley Wilmot, Sr. House (President of American Tube & Stamping Mfg. Co.-formerly Wilmot & Hobbs Mfg. Co.) (1865-1915), 633 Clinton Ave. (1889) 'Stratfield Historic District' 'Number 3 in a series titled "Our Attractive Homes", published weekly in Bridgeport Standard; appeared 31 January 1891.' Currently (2017) used as office of Dr. James Caserta, DDS * Willis F. Hobbs House (President of The Bridgeport Hardware Manufacturing Co.) (1854-1939) (Brother in Law of Frank Ashley Wilmot, Sr.), 579 Clinton Ave. (originally 303 Clinton Ave.) (1891) - Altered * Thomas C. Wordin House, 1139 Fairfield Ave. (1892) - Now home to the local union of the

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* First Baptist Church, 126 Washington Ave. (1893–94) * Thomas C. Wordin House, 33 Yale St. (1893) - An investment property. Altered * Edward W. Harral House, 123 Harrison St. (1899) - Demolished. Currently the corner of Golden Hill & Lafayette * Second Baptist Church, 774 Kossuth St. (1902) * Burroughs Home for Women, 2470 Fairfield Ave. (1903) - Now the Burroughs Community Center * Remodeling of

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, 202 State St. (1905) - No longer the city hall * William R. Webster House, 208 Brooklawn Ave. (1906) * Maplewood Avenue School Annex, 434 Maplewood Ave. (1908) * Richard I. Neithercut House, 180 Brooklawn Ave. (1908) * George T. Hatheway House, 800 Clinton Ave. (1910) * Henry C. Stevenson House, 57 Coleman St. (1912) * Read School, North Ave. between Garland & Reamer Sts. (1914) - Demolished * Edwin M. Jennings Co. Building, 2 Lafayette Square(1919) - Altered beyond recognition * Stone Bridge,

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(1921) - Connects Bunnell Island to the park mainland * Summerfield M. E. Church, 110 Clermont Ave. (1922) * D. M. Read Co. Department Store, 1142 Broad St. (1924–25) - In association with architects and engineers

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of Boston. * Golden Hill Apartments, 225 Golden Hill St. (1925) * Shelton (Cambridge) Apartments, 2209 Main St. (1931–32)

Other locations

* St. John's Episcopal Church, 23 Main St.,

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(1897) * Essex Public Library, 3 S. Main St., Essex, Connecticut (1898) - No longer used as the library * Mary Taylor Memorial M. E. Church, 168 S. Broad St.,

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(1892) * Taylor Memorial Library, 5 Broad St., Milford, Connecticut (1894) - Now home to the Milford Chamber of Commerce. * Lauralton Hall, 200 High St., Milford, Connecticut (1897) - Built as the estate of Charles H. Pond in 1864. Henry A. Taylor had Northrop redesign the entire house. Now a girls' catholic school * Colin M. Ingersoll House, 475 Whitney Ave.,

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(1896) - Described as a "knowledgeable variant of the Chateauesque mansions of

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" * Lexington Tower, 369 Lexington Ave.,

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(1926) * First Reformed Church, 35 S. Broadway,

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(1894) - Demolished * St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 20 Fair St.,

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Northrop, Joseph W. Architects from New Haven, Connecticut Architects from Bridgeport, Connecticut 1860 births 1940 deaths 19th-century American architects