The Orange Street Historic District encompasses a large residential in the

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section of

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. Roughly bounded by Orange, Cottage, Eagle, State, and Audubon Streets, this area saw growth between about 1830 and 1900, and includes a broad diversity of well-preserved 19th-century residential structures. It was listed on the U.S.

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1985. At that time, it included 546 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area. and New Haven's early economy was based mainly on trade based around its port. In the 1820s, the

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opened, spurring a round of industrial development that was accompanied by population growth. The Orange Street area, located northeast of the

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, was one of the areas that saw significant development during this period. Around 1850, the city became a railroad transportation hub, and its industrial base expanded significantly. Residential growth in the Orange Street area expanded beyond Clark Street, into an area that was until 1850 farmland. The district is an irregularly shaped area bounded on the northwest by Orange Street, between Audubon and Cottage Streets. The northwestern half of Orange Street is included in the

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, which abuts the Orange Street Historic District on the west. The southeastern boundary is State Street, although no buildings facing State Street are included. Most of the buildings in the district are residential, and are of wood-frame construction. They are stylistically diverse, with representative examples of styles from the late Federal period of the 1820s to the Colonial Revival of the early 20th century.

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File:Orange St.6.jpg, Everard Benjamin House (1838), 232 Bradley St., with Ionic portico. File:Orange St.3.jpg, 10 Lincoln St. (about 1840). File:Orange St.4.jpg, Gothic cottage, 12 Lincoln St. (about 1840). File:Orange St.2.jpg, Timothy Lester House (1846), 431 Orange St., towered

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. File:Orange St.7.jpg, 223 Bradley St. (about 1848), home of

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. File:Orange St.8.jpg,

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

porch, 445 Orange St. (about 1855). File:Orange St.5.jpg, Nehemiah Sperry House (1857), 466 Orange St. File:Orange St.10.jpg,

, 400 Orange St. (about 1857). File:Orange St.9.jpg, John C. Anderson House (1882), 444 Orange St. File:Mishkan Israel1.jpg, Temple Mishkan Israel (1897), 55 Audubon St.

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New Haven Preservation Trust: Orange Street Historic District
{{National Register of Historic Places National Register of Historic Places in New Haven, Connecticut Queen Anne architecture in Connecticut Italianate architecture in Connecticut Greek Revival architecture in Connecticut Historic districts in New Haven, Connecticut Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut

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