Magrisso Forte Wooster Square

Wooster Square

Including Joselyn Square, Grand Avenue & Water Street Neighborhoods

Wooster Square is just East of Downtown and was originally called the oyster shell field. It was soon developed by merchants and ship captains and renamed the New Township. Water Street was home to numerous Colonial era mansions. Many warehouses were built to house good from the maritine trade. Wooster Square was also the center of New Haven's carriage industry, as well as the home of other large factories. Sargent & Co. was one of the largest companies. They imported thousands of Italians to the city, which is now dubbed New Haven's Little Italy. Joselyn Square was originally called Franklin Square and designed for middle class African Americans in the 1830s.


View from Depot Tower looking northeast c1865	View from Depot Tower looking southeast c1865	View from Depot Tower looking south c1865	View from Depot Tower looking south c1865	Chapel & Olive Streets, St. Paul's Episcopal Church nave c1945

Chapel & Olive Streets, St. Paul's Episcopal Church nave c1945	Chapel & Olive Streets, St. Paul's Episcopal Church chapelc1945		Chapel & Academy Streets, Wooster Square photographed by S. G. Thomas c1870	Chapel & Chestnut Streets, Shoninger Building fire August 29,1960

Wallace & Wooster Streets 1898	Wallace & Wooster Streets 1899	Wooster & Wallace Streets, Wooster Street School 1897	Wooster & Wallace Streets, Wooster Street School 1898	Wooster & Wallace Streets, Wooster Street School 1898

Chapel & East Streets, J. J. Phelps & Co. 1868			East & Bridge Streets 1900	East & Bridge Streets 1900

	St. John Street, Methodist Church June 9,1878	40 William Street, Swedish Baptist Church c1905	Harbor, Red Cross ship 1898	Harbor, Steamer Richard Peck c1900
United Advertising Corporation Collection

Fair & Union Streets c1925	Fair & Union Streets c1925	Fair Street & Viaduct c1925	Grand Avenue & Artizan Street c1930	Grand Avenue & Jefferson Street c1920

Grand Avenue & Franklin Street c1925	Grand Avenue & Franklin Street c1926	Grand Avenue & Franklin Street c1926	Grand Avenue & Franklin Street c1950	Grand Avenue & Franklin Street c1950

Grand Avenue & Wallace Street c1925	Grand Avenue & Wallace Street c1930	Grand Avenue & East Street c1925	Grand Avenue at the Mill River c1940	Grand Avenue at the Mill River c1920

Chapel & Franklin Streets c1950	Chapel & Franklin Streets c1920	Chapel & Hamilton Streets c1930	Chapel & Hamilton Streets c1935	Chapel & East Streets c1950

Chapel & East Streets c1950		Water & Warren Streets c1928	Water & Brown Streets c1930	106 Water Street, Mary Oliver Candy Co. c1934

Olive & Lyon Streets c1930	Olive & Lyon Streets c1932	Olive & Lyon Streets c1935

	Humphrey & Wallace Streets, Joselyn Square c1925	Humphrey & Wallace Streets, Joselyn Square c1925	Humphrey & Mill River Streets c1920	Franklin & State Streets c1930
Joseph Taylor Collection

View from Depot Tower looking north northeast c1865	View from Depot Tower looking northeast c1865	View from Depot Tower looking southeast c1865	View from Depot Tower looking southeast c1865	View from Depot Tower looking south c1865

Artizan Street, Firehouse March 1888	Chapel & Union Streets, Union Depot c1860	Chapel & Olive Streets c1950	Chapel & Olive Streets, Victory Parade November 16, 1918	Chapel & Olive Streets November 16, 1900

Chapel & Olive Streets c1875	Chapel & Olive St Pauls Episcopal Churchl c1865	Chapel & Olive St Pauls Episcopal Church c1875	Chapel & Olive St Pauls Episcopal Church nave c1865	Chapel Street, Wooster Square c1865

584 Chapel Street, Willis Bristol House c1980	576 Chapel Street, Henry Hotchkiss House October 15, 1869	Chapel & Franklin Streets, St.Louis Roman Catholic Church 1911	Chapel & Franklin Streets, St.Louis Roman Catholic Church 1911	Chapel & Chestnut Streets c1915

Chapel Street c1900	Chapel & East Streets c1980	Chapel Street at the Mill River, Temporary bridge June 4,1899	Mill River from Chapel Street c1980	Mill River Gas Works c1900

East & Chapel Streets c1975	East & Chapel Streets c1975	East & Chapel Streets c1975	293 East Street, National Biscuit Company c1910

21 Wooster Place, Immanuel Swedish Congregational Church c1905	Wooster Square c1865	Wooster Place, Russell Academy c1865	Wooster Place c1880	Wooster Place c1905

			Olive & State Streets c1910	Olive & Court Streets c1915

Olive & Court Streets c1915	Court & Olive Streets c1915	Home Place, now Court Street c1905	19 Home Place c1870	Olive & Wooster Streets 1888

Olive & Water Streets March 1888	Hamilton Street, New Haven Clock Company c1910	Hamilton Street, New Haven Clock Company 1917	Hamilton Street looking from Grand Avenue c1915	Grand Avenue & Franklin Street c1890

Grand Avenue & Wallace Street, St Patricks Roman Catholic Church c1980	98 Water Street, E.H. Sperry Company c1890	155 Water Street, Benedict Arnold House 1879	155 Water Street, Benedict Arnold House c1890	155 Water Street, Benedict Arnold House photographed by Helen Mondell c1895

155 Water Street, Benedict Arnold House c1910	Wheaton's Wharf, White's Boat House c1885	Wheaton's Wharf, Dry Dock c1885	New Dock 1893	New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Dock c1900

View From Annex c1890	Bell Dock, Joe Read c1880	Bell Dock 1872	Bell Dock c1900