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Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 279 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 10 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near New Haven, Branford, Waterbury.

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

158 of 279 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

279 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Abbott, George S., BuildingWaterburyBuilding1982
Academy of Our Lady of Mercy at Lauralton HallMilfordDistrict2011
Acadian HouseGuilfordBuilding1975
Aeolian Company Factory ComplexMeridenBuilding2023
Ahavas Sholem SynagogueNew HavenBuilding1995
Allis-Bushnell HouseMadisonBuilding1982
American Mills Web ShopWest HavenBuilding1983
Andrew, William, HouseOrangeBuilding2002
Andrews, Moses, HouseMeridenBuilding1978
Ansonia LibraryAnsoniaBuilding1985
Armstrong Rubber Company BuildingNew HavenBuilding2021
Armstrong, M. and Company Carriage FactoryNew HavenBuilding2011
Atwater, George, HouseHamdenBuilding1992
Atwater-Linton HouseHamdenBuilding1992
Baldwin, George, HouseNorth BranfordBuilding1977
Baldwin, Timothy, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Baldwin, Zaccheus, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Bank Street Historic DistrictWaterburyDistrict1983
Barker, John, HouseWallingfordBuilding1974
Beach, Samuel, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Beaver Hills Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1986
Benedict-Miller HouseWaterburyBuilding1981
Beth El SynagogueWaterburyBuilding1995
Beth Israel SynagogueNew HavenBuilding1995
Birmingham Green Historic DistrictDerbyDistrict2000
Bishop SchoolWaterburyBuilding1982
Blackman, Elisha, BuildingNew HavenBuilding1978
Blackstone HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Blakeslee, Joseph, HouseWallingfordBuilding1998
Bradley, Timothy, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Branford Center Historic DistrictBranfordDistrict1987
Branford Electric Railway Historic DistrictBranfordDistrict1983
Branford Point Historic DistrictBranfordDistrict1988
Bronson, Aaron, HouseSouthburyBuilding1993
Bronson, Josiah, HouseMiddleburyBuilding1982
Buckingham HouseMilfordBuilding1977
Bullet Hill SchoolSouthburyBuilding1972
Burgis II, Thomas, HouseGuilfordBuilding2000
Canoe Brook Historic DistrictBranfordDistrict2002
Castle, Dr. Andrew, HouseWoodbridgeBuilding2000
Center Street CemeteryWallingfordSite1997
Chapel Street Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1984
Charter Oak FirehouseMeridenBuilding1994
Chatfield FarmsteadWoodbridgeBuilding2010
Cheshire Historic DistrictCheshireDistrict1986
Chittenden, Russell Henry, House NHLNew HavenBuilding1975
Christ Church New HavenNew HavenBuilding2009
Colony Street-West Main Street Historic DistrictMeridenDistrict1987
Congregation Mishkan IsraelHamdenBuilding2021
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station NHLNew HavenDistrict1966
Connecticut Hall, Yale University NHLNew HavenBuilding1966
Cook, John, HouseNew HavenBuilding1983
Crawford, George W., ManorNew HavenBuilding2015
Curtis Memorial LibraryMeridenBuilding1981
Curtiss, Reuben, HouseSouthburyBuilding1993
Dana, James Dwight, House NHLNew HavenBuilding1966
Darling Family Farmstead and Tavern (Additional Documentation)WoodbridgeBuilding1979
Darling, James Alexis, HouseWoodbridgeBuilding2020
Depot Street BridgeBeacon FallsStructure2007
Dickerman II, Jonathan, HouseHamdenBuilding1982
Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of ChristNew HavenBuilding2018
Downtown Seymour Historic DistrictSeymourDistrict1983
Downtown Waterbury Historic DistrictWaterburyDistrict1983
Dudley Farm Historic DistrictGuilfordDistrict2023
Dudleytown Historic DistrictGuilfordDistrict1991
Dwight Street Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1983
East Haven Green Historic DistrictEast HavenDistrict2002
East Haven High SchoolEast HavenBuilding2020
East Rock ParkNew HavenDistrict1997
EdgertonNew HavenDistrict1988
Edgewood Park Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1986
Eells-Stow HouseMilfordBuilding1977
Elam Ives HouseHamdenBuilding2010
Eliot, Jared, HouseGuilfordBuilding1985
Elton HotelWaterburyBuilding1983
Falkner's Island LighthouseGuilfordStructure1990
Farmington Canal LockCheshireStructure1973
Farmington Canal Lock No. 13HamdenStructure1982
First Congregational Church of CheshireCheshireBuilding1973
First Congregational Church of East HavenEast HavenBuilding1982
Five Mile Point LighthouseNew HavenStructure1990
Fort Nathan HaleNew HavenSite1970
Fourth District SchoolNorth BranfordBuilding1985
Frisbie, Edward, HomesteadBranfordBuilding1985
Frisbie, Edward, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Fulton, Lewis, Memorial ParkWaterburyDistrict1990
George A. and Jennie Curtis Fay HouseMeridenBuilding2025
Goffe Street Special School for Colored ChildrenNew HavenBuilding1979
Goffe, Solomon, HouseMeridenBuilding1979
Griswold HouseGuilfordBuilding1975
Grove Street Cemetery NHLNew HavenSite1997
Guilford Historic Town CenterGuilfordDistrict1976
Hall-Benedict Drug Company BuildingNew HavenBuilding1986
Hamden Bank & Trust BuildingHamdenBuilding1990
Hamden High SchoolHamdenBuilding1994
Hamden Memorial Town HallHamdenBuilding2001
Hamilton ParkWaterburyDistrict1996
Hammanasset Paper Mill SiteMadisonSite1996
Harrison, Thomas, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Hibbard, Enoch, House and Grannis, George, HouseWaterburyBuilding1979
Hillhouse Avenue Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1985
Hillside Historic DistrictWaterburyDistrict1987
Hoadley, Isaac, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Hoadley, John, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Hoadley, Orrin, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Home Woolen CompanyBeacon FallsBuilding1984
Hooker, Elizabeth R., HouseNew HavenBuilding2010
Hotchkiss, David, HouseProspectBuilding1981
House at 161 Damascus RoadBranfordBuilding1988
House at 29 Flat Rock RoadBranfordBuilding1988
Howard Avenue Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1985
Howd, Eliphalet, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Howd-Linsley HouseNorth BranfordBuilding1986
Howe, John I., HouseDerbyBuilding1989
Humphreys, Gen. David, HouseAnsoniaBuilding1972
Hurd, William, HouseSouthburyBuilding1993
Hurley Road Historic DistrictSouthburyBuilding1993
Hyland-Wildman HouseGuilfordBuilding1976
Imperial Granum-Joseph Parker BuildingsNew HavenBuilding1986
Ives-Baldwin HouseMeridenBuilding2003
Johnson, Alphonso, HouseHamdenBuilding1992
Johnson, Franklin, HouseWallingfordBuilding1998
Jones, Theophilus, HouseWallingfordBuilding1992
Kendrick, John, HouseWaterburyBuilding1982
Kraus Corset FactoryDerbyBuilding1987
Laurel Beach CasinoMilfordBuilding2018
Leete, Pelatiah, HouseGuilfordBuilding1974
Lewis, Isaac C., CottageBranfordBuilding1997
Lighthouse Point CarouselNew HavenStructure1983
Lincoln TheatreNew HavenBuilding1984
Little Pootatuck Brook Archeological SiteSouthburySite1990
Long Wharf PierNew HavenStructure2024
Madison Green Historic DistrictMadisonDistrict1982
Maltby-Stevens Factory SiteNorth BranfordSite2000
Mansfield, Richard, HouseAnsoniaBuilding1971
Marsh, Othniel C., House NHLNew HavenBuilding1966
Matthews and Willard FactoryWaterburyBuilding1988
Meeting House Hill Historic DistrictGuilfordDistrict1987
Meigs-Bishop HouseMadisonBuilding1988
Mendel, Lafayette B., House NHLNew HavenBuilding1976
Meriden Curtain Fixture Company FactoryMeridenBuilding1986
Middlebury Center Historic DistrictMiddleburyDistrict1985
Milford Point HotelMilfordBuilding1988
Miller, Henry F., HouseOrangeBuilding2001
Moody, Dr. Mary B., HouseNew HavenBuilding2017
Morris Cove Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict2018
Morris HouseNew HavenBuilding1972
Mory'sNew HavenBuilding2005
Mount Carmel Congregational Church and Parish HouseHamdenBuilding1991
Murray, Jonathan, HouseMadisonBuilding1982
Naugatuck Center Historic DistrictNaugatuckDistrict1999
Nehemiah Royce HouseWallingfordBuilding1998
New England Cement Company Kiln and QuarryWoodbridgeSite2001
New Haven ArmoryNew HavenBuilding2021
New Haven City HallNew HavenBuilding1975
New Haven Clock Company FactoryNew HavenDistrict2017
New Haven County CourthouseNew HavenBuilding2003
New Haven Green Historic District NHLNew HavenDistrict1970
New Haven Jewish Home for the AgedNew HavenBuilding1979
New Haven Lawn ClubNew HavenBuilding2003
New Haven Railroad StationNew HavenBuilding1975
Nicoll, Caroline, HouseNew HavenBuilding1983
Ninth Square Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1984
Norcross Brothers Granite QuarryBranfordSite2003
North Branford Center Historic DistrictNorth BranfordDistrict1999
Northford CenterNorth BranfordDistrict2002
Norton HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Old West Haven High SchoolWest HavenBuilding1985
Orange Center Historic DistrictOrangeDistrict1989
Orange Street Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1985
Orange Street Historic District (Boundary Increase)New HavenDistrict2017
OsbornedaleDerbyBuilding1986
Overlook Historic DistrictWaterburyDistrict1988
Oyster Point Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1989
Palace TheaterWaterburyBuilding1983
Palmer, Hezekiah, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Palmer, Isaac, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Parsons, Samuel, HouseWallingfordBuilding1982
Pine Orchard Union ChapelBranfordBuilding2000
Pines Bridge Historic DistrictNorth HavenDistrict1988
Pinto, William, HouseNew HavenBuilding1985
Pistol Factory DwellingHamdenBuilding1991
Pitkin, Elisha, HouseGuilfordBuilding1979
Plaster HouseSouthburyBuilding1993
Platt, Col. Asa, HouseOrangeBuilding2002
Plymouth Congregational ChurchNew HavenBuilding1983
Prospect Green Historic DistrictProspectDistrict2000
Prospect Hill Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1979
Quaker Farms Historic DistrictOxfordDistrict1991
Quinnipiac BreweryNew HavenBuilding1983
Quinnipiac River Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1984
RaynhamNew HavenBuilding1980
Red BridgeMeridenStructure1993
Richardson, Nathaniel, HouseMiddleburyBuilding1977
Rising Sun TavernNorth HavenBuilding1979
River Park Historic DistrictMilfordDistrict1986
River Street Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1989
Riverside CemeteryWaterburySite1988
Rogers, John, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Route 146 Historic DistrictBranfordDistrict1990
Russian Village Historic DistrictSouthburyDistrict1988
Sabbathday HouseGuilfordBuilding1975
Salem SchoolNaugatuckBuilding1983
Sanford Road Historic DistrictSouthburyDistrict1993
Sanford-Humphreys HouseSeymourBuilding1982
Schlaraffia BurgNew HavenBuilding2007
Scully, Vincent J. and Susannah K., HouseWoodbridgeBuilding2025
Seymour High School and AnnexSeymourBuilding1983
Sheffield Street BridgeWaterburyStructure2001
Shelley HouseMadisonBuilding1989
Short Beach Historic DistrictBranfordDistrict2019
Simpson, Samuel, HouseWallingfordBuilding1986
Sleeping Giant TowerHamdenBuilding1986
South Britain Historic DistrictSouthburyDistrict1987
Southbury Historic District No. 1SouthburyDistrict1971
Southbury Training SchoolSouthburyDistrict1992
Southern New England Telephone Company Adminstrative BuildingNew HavenBuilding1997
Southwest District SchoolWolcottBuilding1982
Southwest Ledge LighthouseNew HavenStructure1990
St. Luke's Episcopal ChurchNew HavenBuilding2003
St. Peter's Episcopal ChurchMilfordBuilding1979
Stapleton BuildingWaterburyBuilding1988
State Park Supply YardMadisonBuilding1986
Sterling Opera HouseDerbyBuilding1968
Stick Style House at Stony CreekBranfordBuilding1972
Stone, Medad, TavernGuilfordDistrict2009
Stony Creek-Thimble Islands Historic DistrictBranfordDistrict1988
Stratford Shoal LighthouseNew HavenStructure1990
Strouse, Adler Company Corset FactoryNew HavenBuilding2002
Swain-Harrison HouseBranfordBuilding1975
Taylor Memorial LibraryMilfordBuilding1979
Todd, Orrin, HouseHamdenBuilding1991
Tranquility FarmMiddleburyBuilding1982
Trowbridge Square Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1985
Tunxis Hose FirehouseUnionvilleBuilding1983
Tuttle, Bronson B., HouseNaugatuckBuilding1990
Tyler, John, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
Tyler, Solomon, HouseBranfordBuilding1988
US Post Office-Ansonia MainAnsoniaBuilding1985
US Post Office-Meriden MainMeridenBuilding1986
US Post Office-Milford MainMilfordBuilding1986
US Post Office-Naugatuck MainNaugatuckBuilding1986
Union SchoolWest HavenBuilding1987
United States Post Office and Court HouseNew HavenBuilding2015
Upper Main Street Historic DistrictAnsoniaDistrict1982
Upper State Street Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1984
Wallingford Center Historic DistrictWallingfordDistrict1993
Wallingford Railroad StationWallingfordBuilding1993
Ward-Heitman HouseWest HavenBuilding2003
Washington Avenue BridgeWaterburyStructure2001
Washington BridgeMilfordStructure2004
Waterbury Brass MillWaterburySite1975
Waterbury Clock CompanyWaterburyBuilding1982
Waterbury Municipal Center ComplexWaterburyDistrict1978
Waterbury Union StationWaterburyBuilding1978
Webster SchoolWaterburyBuilding1982
Welch Training SchoolNew HavenBuilding1983
West Haven Green Historic DistrictWest HavenDistrict2000
West Haven VA Hospital Historic DistrictWest HavenDistrict2022
Westville Village Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict2003
Westville Village Historic District (Boundary Increase)New HavenBuilding2006
Wheeler, Adin, House and Theodore F. Wheeler Wheelwright ShopSouthburyBuilding1993
Wheeler-Beecher HouseBethanyBuilding1977
Whitfield, Henry, HouseGuilfordBuilding1972
Whitfield, Henry, House NHLGuilfordBuilding1997
Whitney Avenue Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1989
Whitney, Eli, Gun FactoryHamdenSite1974
Whitneyville Congregational ChurchHamdenBuilding1995
Wilby High SchoolWaterburyBuilding1982
Wiley-Tremaine HouseMadisonBuilding2026
Williams, Warham, HouseNorthfordBuilding1971
Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1988
Winchester Repeating Arms Company Historic District (Boundary Increase)New HavenDistrict2015
Wolcott Green Historic DistrictWolcottDistrict2000
Wood, Harcourt, Memorial LibraryDerbyBuilding1982
Woodbridge Green Historic DistrictWoodbridgeDistrict2003
Wooster Sawmill and Gristmill SiteOxfordSite2001
Wooster Square Historic DistrictNew HavenDistrict1971
Yale Bowl NHLNew HavenStructure1987

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

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