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National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NFS Form 10-900 0MB No. 1024-0018 (Rev. 10-90) United States Department of the Interior /L(\\ National k T _ J_ * _ __ _ ~\ Park1~\ ___1_(*1_____J Service __ _ ' \**^ NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REGISTRATION FORM 1. Name of Property historic name: New Haven Lawn Club other names/site number: N/A 2. Location street & number: 193 Whitney Avenue___________ not for publication: N/A city or town: _____New Haven_______________________________ vicinity: N/A state Connecticut code CT county New Haven code 009 zip code 06511 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1986, as amended, I hereby certify that this X nomination ___ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property X meets ___ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant __ nationally __ statewide x ^locally. (__ Se^ continuation sheet for additional comments.) 3/13/03______________ S i gn^fcu' re/£ certifp^g official Date Director. Connecticut Historical Commission_____________________________________ State or Federal agency and bureau In my opinion, the property ___ meets _____ does not meet the National Register criteria. ( See continuation sheet for additional comments.) Signature of certifying official Date State or Federal agency and bureau New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven New Haven County, Connecticut 4 . National Park Service Certification I , hereby certify that this property is: V entered in the National Register V/%4CM^3^ 3//A2-. See continuation sheet. / *" ~" " determined eligible for the / National Register See continuation sheet. determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain) : ^ \J^ Signature of Keeper Date of Action 5 Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply) X private __ public-local __ public-State __ public-Federal Category of Property (Check only one box) X building(s) __ district site structure object Number of Resources within Property: Contributing Noncontributing 1 1 buildings sites 1 3__ structures __ objects 4 Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register: _0 Name of related multiple property listing: N/A New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven New Haven County, Connecticut 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions) Cat: SOCIAL Sub: clubhouse RECREATION_______________ sports facility Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions) Cat: SOCIAL Sub: clubhouse RECREATION_______________ sports facility 7. Description Architectural Classification: Colonial Revival________________________ Art Moderne____________________________________ Materials: foundation concrete roof slate walls brick other wood limestone_________________________________________________ Narrative Description Describe present and historic physical appearance. X See continuation sheet. NFS Form 10-900-a 0MB No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Description New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven 7-1 New Haven County, CT Narrative Description The New Haven Lawn Club is located slightly north of downtown New Haven, on a 6.38-acre interior lot with driveways providing access to Whitney Avenue to the northwest and Humphrey Street to the northeast (Figure 1). The clubhouse sits approximately in the center of the lot, its main entrance facing northwest. The principal rooms face the tennis courts in the southern portion of the property. The land slopes gently, exposing the basement on the south and southeast sides. The clubhouse, completed in 1931, is constructed of brick and hollow tile, with roofs covered with Vermont slate. Trim is of wood, painted white, and limestone. The building's plan is an irregular W (Figure 2). The central block is two stories high, with an exposed basement on the southern side, facing the tennis courts. It is flanked by two smaller wings containing the ballroom and the members' lounge, also two stories high and connected to the main block by one-story hyphens. A one-story section con­ taining the kitchen is located along the north side of the central block. The main entrance faces northwest, toward Whitney Avenue (Photograph 1). One end of the central block is visible, flanked by two arms that reach out toward the parking lot, forming a forecourt surrounded on three sides by arcaded walkways. At the end of each arm is an open pavilion that serves as a porte cochere. The central block's fagade bears four pilasters with stone capitals incised with a Greek key motif (Photograph 2). Wooden urns sit atop the two inner pilasters. Entry is through a tall brick arch with a stone keystone. Located behind the arch, the double door has a leaded-glass transom and, above that, an arched wooden panel incised with a Greek key, vertical flutes, and stars. Above the brick archway is an octagonal window, then a stone panel carved with a Greek key design, and, between the urns, a wooden tablet with low-relief carvings. Two shorter arches flank the tall entry arch; like it they open onto the arcade. Above the side arches are rectangular windows with 6/6 glazing. Tall, narrow chimneys rise from either side of the central block. From the tennis courts, the central block, side blocks, and one-story connectors appear most clearly (Photograph 3). On this side the central block is three stories high. The basement has a series of seven arched openings, originally an open loggia but now filled with modern glazed doors and semicircular transoms. The end bays on this level have circular windows. The middle level is marked by a row of seven very tall windows NFS Form 10-900-a 0MB No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Description New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven 7-2 New Haven County, CT with 20-over-20 glazing, wooden hoods, and iron railings. The end bays have blind arches. The upper floor has a row of shorter rectangular windows with six-over-six glazing. A limestone belt course runs at the floor level of the middle level, and pilasters flank the end bays on the middle and upper levels. Old photographs show a Chinese fretwork railing along the ridge of the roof; it has been removed. The ballroom and lounge wings are similar to each other, but slightly different in width and pattern of openings. The lounge wing is the narrower. Facing the tennis courts, it has a bay window of wood, flanked by single pilasters topped with urns. A small window with a grille sits atop the bay window's roof. Another bay fills the front of the hyphen. The ballroom wing is wider; it too has a bay window facing the courts, but with four pilasters. The upper two levels of the wings sit back from the basement level, creating terraces overlooking the tennis courts. The terraces continue along the southwest side of the lounge and the southeast side of the ballroom. At the south corner of the ballroom terrace, brick stairs provide access to the ground level. The southwest side of the lounge wing has two more bay windows of the type described above, plus pilasters, and urns. The southeast side of the ballroom wing has a row of double-height windows with segmental-arched tops and stone keystones. A later iron stair runs down along the side of the building from the northeast end of the terrace on this side, partly obscuring an open arcade on the lower level. A separate entry for the ballroom faces northeast along the axis of the Humphrey Street drive (Photograph 4). This is the opposite end of the central block from the main entrance. At ground level is the entry: double doors with glazing and a leaded-glass transom (Photograph 5). The entry is sheltered by a semi-octagonal porch of iron filigree with slender finials at the angles, a concave roof of copper, and an anthemion-like finial at the peak of the roof. Rectangular lanterns flank the porch; each has a white glass shade and a metal overlay in the form of an anthemion. A Diocletian window appears high in the wall above the entry. Paired pilasters outline the block. The outer ones are rusticated, the inner ones plain and capped with urns. A wooden tablet similar to the one at the main entry lines the roof between the urns. To the left (east) of the ballroom entry is the northwest side of the ballroom wing. It resembles the southeast side, except that there is no NFS Form 10-900-a 0MB No. 1024-0018 (8-86) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTINUATION SHEET Description New Haven Lawn Club, New Haven 7-3 New Haven County, CT terrace. The tall windows have stone balconies with iron railings and on the lower level are three blind arches, one containing a door. On the north side of the clubhouse is a one-story kitchen with a flat roof (Photograph 6). Above this is seen a row of rectangular windows lighting the second floor of the central block. Brick walls form a triangular service court for the kitchen. Entering the clubhouse by the main entry, one first encounters a small vestibule with plastered walls and ceiling and a star-shaped ceiling light said to be of Lalique glass. A non-original window provides access to a receptionist's office. The lobby is an unequal octagon, a shape repeated several times through the building (Photograph 9). A continuous molding runs around the room at the tops of the doorways; above it, moldings divide the wall into panels and there are circular plaster medallions.
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