One
of New Haven’s finest neighborhoods, the Beaver Hills Historic
District is architecturally significant as a neighborhood with many
early twentieth century suburban residences. While a number of
popular building styles are represented in the district, the area is
particularly notable for its concentrated collection of Tudor
Revival style single family houses. It also has one of the city’s
largest concentrations of pre-1945 Colonial revival style houses.
Many
of the houses also represent the work of locally prominent
architects and /or builders of the era. The district is historically
significant because it encompasses one of New Haven’s earliest
examples of a suburban subdivision that was thoroughly planned,
promoted, and developed under the auspices of a speculative real
estate development corporation. It also ranks “… among the first…”
twentieth century residential neighborhoods in the city ‘… to
reflect the arrival of the automobile."
