Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District
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Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District
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Front of Winchester Repeating Arms Company (1870s), 275 Winchester Ave., New Haven, Connecticut.
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| Location | Roughly bounded by Sherman Pkwy., Ivy St., Mansfield St., Admiral St., and Sachem St., New Haven, Connecticut |
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| Coordinates | 41°19′16″N 72°55′55″W / 41.32111°N 72.93194°WCoordinates: 41°19′16″N 72°55′55″W / 41.32111°N 72.93194°W |
| Area | 255 acres (103 ha) (excludes increase of 2015) |
| Built | 1912 |
| Architect | Robinson,Leoni W.; Et al. |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne |
| NRHP Reference # |
87002552 (original) 13000898 (increase) |
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| Added to NRHP | January 28, 1988 |
| Boundary increase | April 21, 2015 |
The Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District is a historic district in New Haven, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It includes 867 properties, which "include 858 major structures and 131 notable outbuildings." Of these structures, 876 are buildings deemed to contribute to the historical and/or architectural significance of the area, and most of these are residential. However the center of the district is "dominated" by the 75-acre (30 ha) tract of the former Winchester Repeating Arms Company, which contains industrial buildings.
The district includes and surrounds the old Winchester plant later run by U.S. Repeating Arms; the plant was important to both of its adjoining residential neighborhoods. Some of the plant has been operated by Science Park at Yale, a business incubator with Yale University associations.
According to the district's 1987 nomination document:
The district is historically significant for two reasons. First its core encompasses the extensive surviving portions of the industrial complex developed by the former Winchester Repeating Arms Company, one of the nation's foremost late 19th- and early 20th-century armament manufacturers. Second, the district as a whole forms New Haven's most nearly intact and cohesive surviving example of the inherent relationship between the growth of modern industry and the emergence of large working-class residential neighborhoods, a relationship typically associated with the development of many of the nation's northeastern urban communities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Criterion A). The district is architecturally significant for three reasons. First, its core embraces numerous examples of period industrial structures. Second, the majority of these structures were built for the Winchester Repeating Arms Company according to designs provided by Leoni W. Robinson, one of New Haven's premier late 19/early 20th-century architects. Finally, the district's predominantly residential perimeter areas encompass a host of relatively intact single- and multi-family workers' houses as well as several significant examples of commercial, religious, and municipal buildings dating from this same era. As a group, these perimeter-area buildings represent a variety of important and popular vernacular architectural styles of the era, including late Greek Revival, Italianate, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival (Criterion C).
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