Trowbridge Square Historic District
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Trowbridge Square Historic District, originally known as Village of Spireworth and Mount Pleasant, is a 26 acres (10.5 ha) historic district
in the Hill
section New Haven, Connecticut
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It includes most of the area laid out by Jocelyn and Thompson in 1830 as the Village of Spireworth.
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1985. At that time it included 208 contributing buildings and one other contributing site.
Its NRHP nomination asserted that the district was "historically significant as New Haven's most intact and cohesive surviving example of a working-class residential neighborhood which was planned and developed as such during the nineteenth century."
Historic district (United States)
In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...
in the Hill
The Hill (New Haven)
The Hill is the southwestern-most neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. As early as 1800, this area was known as "Sodom Hill" and is now home to Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Yale School of Medicine.- Geography :...
section New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...
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It includes most of the area laid out by Jocelyn and Thompson in 1830 as the Village of Spireworth.
The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1985. At that time it included 208 contributing buildings and one other contributing site.
Its NRHP nomination asserted that the district was "historically significant as New Haven's most intact and cohesive surviving example of a working-class residential neighborhood which was planned and developed as such during the nineteenth century."