Mill Community Record Hamden

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Community Name (Common)
Eli Whitney Boarding House
Address or Location
940 Whitney Avenue, Whitneyville, Hamden
Specific Location
SWC of Whitney Avenue and Armory Street
County
New Haven
Historic Designation
Associated Mill Complexes
Architectural and Historical Information

Number of Existing Buildings

One tenant house and one barn.

Dates of Construction

1816 (barn), 1827 (boarding house)

Housing Types

n/a

Companies Associated w/Community

  • Heany Industrial Ceramic Corp. c.1950

Brief Description

The district includes a single wood-frame tenement, known as the ‘single-men’s boarding house,’ which was built by Eli Whitney 1827, and a wood-frame 1816 'factory barn.'