Magrisso Forte Oak Street

Oak Street

Including Long Wharf, Legion Avenue & Medical Center neighborhoods

Just south of Downtown, Oak Street was built along the old East Creek. It was the original landing site of the Puritan Colonists. The are grew rapidly as a merchant neighborhood. The old creek was filled and the area became a slum. Long a melting pot of new immigrants, Oak Street and Legion Avenue were the center of the city's Jewish community. Long Wharf and other wharfs became the center of New Haven's maritine trade. Large areas of the harbor were filled for the railroad. The State's first hospital was built in this area. Over time the hospital and the Yale School of Medicine expanded over much of the neighborhood.


105-11 State Street, Yale, Bryan & Co. The small building on the right hand side was the Rutherford Warehouse built in 1682. Drawing from 1886	105-11 State Street, Minor, Read & Garrette 1904	Congress Avenue, Cedar & Rose Streets. Photographed by John T. Sloan, April 1901	Congress Avenue, Cedar & Rose Streets, New Haven Dispensary replace buildings in previous photo. 1901	Commerce & Whiting Streets 1924

Union Avenue & West Water Street July 11, 1937	Union Avenue & West Water Street November 9, 1947	Union Avenue & West Water Street November 9, 1947	Union Avenue & West Water Street November 9, 1947	Union Avenue & West Water Street November 9, 1947

Union & Columbus Avenues November 9, 1947	Union & Columbus Avenues November 9, 1947
United Advertising Corporation Collection

Congress Avenue & George Street, Congress Square, May 1933	Congress Avenue & George Street, Congress Square c1930	Congress Avenue & George Street, Congress Square c1930	Congress & Columbus Avenues c1930	Congress Avenue & Lafayette Street c1920

Congress Avenue & Liberty Street c1945	Oak & Factory Streets c1945	Oak & Broad Streets c1950	Oak Street & Davenport Avenue c1925	464 Oak Street c1930

Oak & Asylum Streets c1930	Oak & Orchard Streets c1930	41-43 Broad Street c1930	41-43 Broad Street c1945	Davenport Avenue & Oak Street c1920

Temple & Commerce Streets c1925	South Orange & Commerce Streets c1935	South Orange & Commerce Streets c1935	South Orange & Portsea Streets c1935	South Orange & Portsea Streets c1925

South Orange & Portsea Streets c1925	South Orange & Portsea Streets c1925	South Orange & Portsea Streets c1925	South Orange & Portsea Streets c1925	State & West Water Streets c1920

Commerce & South Orange Streets c1930	West Water & Meadow Streets c1945	Portsea & West Water Streets July 1933	Portsea & West Water Streets c1933	West Water & Portsea Streets c1925

West Water & Portsea Streets c1925	Union Avenue & West Water Street, Union Station c1930	Union Avenue & West Water Street, Union Station c1930	Union Avenue & West Water Street c1925	Union Avenue & West Water Street c1925

Union Avenue & West Water Street c1930	Union Avenue & South Orange Street c1920	Union Avenue & West Water Street c1930	Union Avenue & West Water Street c1925	Union Avenue & South Orange Street c1935

Union & Columbus Avenues c1925	Colombus & Union Avenues c1930	Columbus & Union Avenues c1930	Portsea & South Orange Streets c1925	Long Wharf, Sperry & Barnes meat packaging plant 1944

Long Wharf, Sperry & Barnes meat packaging plant 1945
Joseph Taylor Collection

85 Congress Avenue, Henry Reynolds Cafe c1920	Congress Avenue & Commerce Street c1910	Congress & Washington Avenues 1912	Congress Avenue & Cedar Street, Hospital c1915	Congress Avenue & Cedar Street, Hospital c1915

Congress Avenue & Oak Street 1954	Oak Street & Congress Avenue c1954	Oak Street & Congress Avenue c1954	Oak & Temple Streets c1954	Oak & York Streets c1954

Lafayette & Oak Streets, Flea Market c1954	Lafayette & Oak Streets, Flea Market c1954	Lafayette & Oak Streets, Flea Market c1954	Lafayette Street Flea, Market c1954	Lafayette Street, Flea Market c1954

Lafayette Street Flea Market c1954	Lafayette Street Flea Market c1954	Lafayette Street Flea Market c1954	Lafayette Street Flea Market c1954	Lafayette & Broad Streets c1955

Oak & Orchard Streets, Bethany Church c1875	Legion Avenue & Vine Street, Weibel Brewery c1935

Davenport Avenue & South Street. Saint John's Roman Catholic Church c1875	Commerce & Whiting Streets c1900	94-96 Commerce Street c1954	Meadow & Commerce Streets c1954

Meadow & Prout Streets c1950	Meadow Street & Columbus Avenue c1925	Meadow Street & Congress Avenue November 1912	Meadow Street & Congress Avenue November 1912	Cedar Street & Washington Avenue c1935

Cedar Street, New Haven Hospital 1913	Cedar Street, New Haven Hospital 1887	215 West Water Street, fire June 22,1946	215 West Water Street, fire June 22,1946	215 West Water Street, fire June 22,1946

West Water Street & Columbus Avenue c1925	West Water Street & Columbus Avenue c1925	West Water Street & Columbus Avenue c1925	Union Avenue & West Water Street August, 21, 1938	Union Avenue, Union Station c1940

Union Depot from Long Wharf c1875	Union Avenue at the Railroad Station c1910	Union Depot May 17, 1896	Union Depot c1905	Union Depot c1905

Railroad June 1934	Railroad Tracks c1915	Union Station c1940	Railroad near Union Station c1950	Union Station March 1957

Union Station March 28, 1981	Union Station c1984	Union Station c1984	Canal Dock June 25, 1899
Tony Griego Collection

Legion Avenue & Asylum Street c1975