William H. Allen (1858–1936) was an American

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

who worked in

New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,02 ...

. He designed hundreds of houses and other buildings. Allen, a native of

Northampton, Massachusetts The city of Northampton is the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of Northampton (including its outer villages, Florence and Leeds) was 29,571. Northampton is known as an acade ...

, moved to New Haven around 1867 or 1868 and spent most of his adult life there. He and Richard Williams'

Beaux Arts architecture Beaux-Arts architecture ( , ) was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century. It drew upon the principles of French neoclassicism, but also incorpora ...

design for the

New Haven County Courthouse The New Haven County Courthouse is located at 121 Elm Street in the Downtown section of New Haven, Connecticut. The building was built in 1917 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 16, 2003. It is one of the city's fines ...

won a design competition over submissions from several well-known architects. The building, erected in 1914, prominently faces the

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. and and Several of his works are individually listed on the U.S.

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(NRHP). Many others are contributing buildings in New Haven's NRHP-listed

Whitney Avenue Historic District __NOTOC__ The Whitney Avenue Historic District is a historic district in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. It is a district which included 1,084 contributing buildings when it was listed on the National Register of Histori ...

and other historic districts. Works include (with attribution): * Fyler-Hotchkiss Estate, 192 Main St.

Torrington, CT Torrington is the most populated municipality and only city in Litchfield County, Connecticut, Litchfield County, Connecticut and the Northwest Hills (Connecticut), Northwest Hills region. It is also the core city of Greater Torrington, one of the ...

(Allen, William H.), NRHP-listed *

, 121 Elm St.

New Haven, CT New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,023 ...

(Allen and Williams), NRHP-listed *

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad , commonly known as The Consolidated, or simply as the New Haven, was a railroad that operated in the New England region of the United States from 1872 to December 31, 1968. Founded by the merger of ...

general office building, permitted 1892, "a marvelous edifice", demolished * Plymouth Congregational Church, 1469 Chapel St.

(Allen, William H.), NRHP-listed

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Architects from Massachusetts Architects from New Haven, Connecticut People from Northampton, Massachusetts 1858 births 1936 deaths {{US-architect-stub