Mill Community Record Derby
FIND ‘MILL COMMUNITIES’- Community Name (Common)
- Union Fabric Co. Housing
- Address or Location
- 106 Hawthorne Avenue, Derby
- Specific Location
- Along the south side of Hawthorne Avenue, immediately east of Hawthorne Avenue’s intersection with North Avenue. Includes 92, 100, 106, 110, and 116 Hawthorne Avenue.
- County
- New Haven
- Historic Designation
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n/a
- Associated Mill Complexes
- Architectural and Historical Information
Number of Existing Buildings
Five.
Dates of Construction
1913-1916.
Housing Types
Brief Description
Associated with the Union Fabric Co. (#2816). Consists of five multi-family wood-frame houses located along the south side of Hawthorne Avenue that were built as worker housing between 1913 and 1916 by Frances Eliza Osborne, president of the Union Fabric Co. Osborne reportedly found inspiration for the cottages, which represent a blending of the Tudor and Colonial Revival styles, in a book of plans for urban British Housing and collaborated with the New Haven- and New York-based architect Henry Killam Murphy to have them designed and built. Once completed, the ‘Osborne Cottages’ were highlighted in numerous architectural journals as an exemplary manifestation of company-built housing.
