Magrisso Forte Westville

Westville

Including West Rock & Amity Neighborhoods

Westville lies on the Western edge of New Haven and was originally called Westfield, and then Hotchkisstown. Some of the earliest mills in the Colony were built here along the West River. Dominated by the cliffs of West Rock ridge the little village grew into a burgeoning hamlet. Over time the pasture and farm lands were developed into suburban neighborhoods. Two prominent citizens, Donald Grant Mitchell and John Milton Greist, owned two of the city's largest estates here.


Whalley Avenue at the Westville Cemetary c1865	Whalley Avenue by John W. Barber 1836	View of Westville by Richardson-Cox 1858	Blake & Valley Streets, Diamond Match Company 1872	444 Blake Street, Greist Manufacturing Company c1910

Whalley Avenue & Blake Street c1900	Mill damn on the West River c1910	Whalley Avenue, Westville Methodist Church c1875	Whalley Avenue, St James Episcopal Church c1910	Whalley Avenue & Amity Road, photographed by John H. Koella December 1941

Alden & Edgewood Avenues c1910	Edgewood Avenues Bridge at Edgewood Park, photographed b Alvina Morgan c1948	255 McKinley Avenue c1945	View southeast from West Rock c1895	Judge's Cave c1875

Judge's Cave c1904	Camp Yale looking towards Derby Avenue 1917	Yale Bowl during construction April, 1914	Yale Bowl during construction April, 1914	Yale Bowl c1914

Yale Bowl c1914	Yale Bowl November 20, 1920	Yale Bowl- Yale vs. Brown October 25, 1924	Yale Bowl- Yale vs. Army 1927	Yale Bowl- Yale vs. Army 1927

Yale Bowl- Yale vs. Army 1927	Yale Bowl- Yale vs. Army, photographed by the Associated Press, October 24, 1931	Yale Bowl and Westville shot from the American Airlines Skysleeper 1937	Derby Avenue, Yale Bowl November 9, 1947	Derby Avenue, Yale Bowl November 9, 1947

Davis Street, Davis Street School 1923	Fountain Street, Sheriden Middle School 1943	Ramsdell Street, City Ice Company Pond, c1890	Donald Grant Mitchell, pennamed Ik Marvel, photographed by Rockwood 1869	Forest Road, Rosebank, later Mitchell's Edgewood, photographed by 1869

Edgewood Garden, photographed by Rockwood 1869	Edgewood Lawn, photographed by Rockwood 1869	Edgewood Wood, photographed by Rockwood 1869	Edgewood Way, photographed by Rockwood 1869	View northeast from Edgewood, photographed by Rockwood 1869

View east from Edgewood, photographed by Rockwood 1869	View south from Edgewood, photographed by Rockwood 1869	999 Forest Road, Edgewood Farmhouse, photographed by Rockwood 1869	999 Forest Road, Edgewood Farmhouse c1915	Springside Avenue, Wintergreen Brook bridge c1900

West River bridge on Valley Street c1905	Wintergreen Falls c1865	Wintergreen Falls 1869	Wintergreen Falls c1870	Wintergreen Falls c1900
United Advertising Corporation Collection

Whalley Avenue & Fountatin Street c1940	Whalley & West Rock Avenues c1925	Whalley & West Rock Avenues c1938	Whalley & West Rock Avenues c1938	Whalley Avenue & Fountain Street March 1927

Whalley Avenue & Fountain Street March 1927	Whalley Avenue & Fountain Street c1925	Whalley & Central Avenues c1925	Whalley & Central Avenues c1930	Whalley & Central Avenues c1930

Whalley & Central Avenues c1930	Whalley Avenue & Valley Street c1930	Whalley Avenue & Phillip Street c1925	Whalley Avenue & Dayton Street c1924	Dayton & Pardee Streets c1950

Whalley Avenue & Ramsdell Street c1925	View of West Rock from Amity Road c1925
Joseph Taylor Collection

Whalley Avenue c1865	Whalley Avenue & Fitch Street 1872	Fitch Street looking toward West Rock 1872	Whalley Avenue looking from the West River c1865	Whalley Avenue looking north from the West River. Photographed by Peck Bros. c1865

West Rock from Dyer & Diamond Street c1910	807 Whalley Avenue, Robert N. Lattin Plumbing c1908	Whalley Avenue & Fountain Street c1905	Whalley & Central Avenues c1905	Whalley Avenue & Blake Street c1940

Whalley Avenue & Philip Street, Soldier's Memorial Monument, c1915	Whalley Avenue Westville Methodist Church & School c1875. Photographed by Henry S. Peck	Whalley Avenue Westville Methodist Church c1907	Whalley Avenue Westville Methodist Church c1910	Whalley Avenue & Harrison Street, Benton School c1910

1015 Whalley Avenue, Dr. Arthur W. Marsh House, August 1906	88 Harrison Street c1910	Harrison Street, Ebenezer Beecher House & later Mitchell Memorial Library c1905	Harrison Street, Westville Congregation Church c1910	Alden Avenue & Fountain Street, Westville Firehouse c1910

140 Alden Avenue c1910		Edgewood Park frozen pond formally part of West River c1910	Edgewood Park Lotus Pond looking towads Chapel Street c1900	Edgewood Park Lotus Pond looking towards Chapel Street c1905

Forest Road & West Elm Street c1880	149 Fountain Street, William C. Harmon House c1910	243 Fountain Street c1905	263 Fountain Street c1905

Parker Pond near Whalley Avenue c1890	Parker Pond near Whalley Avenue c1895		119 Valley Street 1907	Spring Street over the West River c1895

West Rock from Springside Avenue c1900	Meadows near Edgewood Avenue c1880	View From West Rock c1910	View From West Rock 1924	Judge's Cave, West Rock 1872

Judge's Cave, West Rock 1872	West Rock Judges Rock c1900	Yale Bowl c1945	Derby Avenue c1940	Derby Avenue c1940

Derby Avenue c1940	Derby Avenue c1945	Derby Avenue, Cox Cage c1945	Wintergreen Falls c1870	Springside Avenue, Wintergreen Brook bridge c1910