William J. Clark House
Building Name:
William J. Clark House
Architect:
Austin, Henry (1804-1891)
Date:
1879-1880
Address:
Prospect Hill Road Branford, CT
Current Use:
Residential
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Notes:
This house was built as a summer home on an elevated site with spectacular views of Long Island Sound. See also the Jacob Cram/Sturtevant House in Middletown, RI. The orientation of these two houses to the sea is remarkably similar. Henry Austin was a successful New Haven architect with a national reputation. He designed in many of the revival styles of the day and was mentor to many other architects. One of his most famous buildings is the Morse-Libby Mansion in Portland, Maine. The Clark House was one of his last commissions.
Bibliography:
Brown, Elizabeth Mills. New Haven, a Guide to Architecture and Urban Design. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976. (For information on Henry Austin)
McArdle, Alma deC. Carpenter Gothic : Nineteenth-Century Ornamented Houses of New England. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1978.
Naversen, Kenneth. East Coast Victorians: Castles and Cottages. Wilsonville, OR: Beautiful America Pub. Co., 1990.
Photo Source:
Bruce Barnes, August, 2003
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