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The Orange Street Historic District encompasses a large residential in the East Rock section of New Haven, Connecticut.Roughly bounded by Orange, Cottage, Eagle, State, and Audubon Streets, this area saw growth between about 1830 and 1900, and includes a broad diversity of well-preserved 19th-century residential structures.
An 1806 map showing Washington Street—the earlier "Orange Street"—as the only road off the peninsula. The narrowest point was near today's crossing of the Massachusetts Turnpike. Washington Street begins at State and Court Streets as a one-way thoroughfare (for northbound traffic only
On July 6, 1824, this section of Orange Street where the town gate once stood was renamed Washington Street. The Washington Street Elevated (the “El”) ran subway trains above Washington Street from 1901 until 1987 when the Orange Line (which inherited the old name of the street) [ 4 ] was relocated and the elevated tracks and stations were ...
The William Pinto House is located a short way east of the New Haven Green in central New Haven, on the east side of Orange Street between Elm and Wall Streets. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood rame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its street-facing facade is three bays wide, with the main entrance in the rightmost bay.
The city of New Haven is the location of 70 of these properties and districts, including 9 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the other properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county, including 1 National Historic Landmark, are covered in National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County ...
Plymouth Church is an historic church located at 57 Orange Street between Henry and Hicks Streets in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City; the Church House has the address 75 Hicks Street. The church was built in 1849–50 and was designed by Joseph C. Wells.
The area that is now the center of Orange was settled around 1785, when a bridge was built across the Millers River, which flows through it in a westerly direction toward the Connecticut River. [ citation needed ] The town grew in the first half of the 19th century as an industrial area, and its growth increased substantially with the arrival ...
Opened in September 1897, the four-track-wide segment of the Green Line tunnel between Park Street and Boylston stations was the first subway in the United States, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark. The downtown portions of what are now the Green, Orange, Blue, and Red line tunnels were all in service by 1912.