64 Edgewood Ave.

This two and a half story fourplex apartment building on Edgewood Avenue is a quintessential example of the High Victorian Italianate rowhomes that defined American cities in the early 20^th Century (Image 1). Its twin style construction invokes the perfect symmetry of two separate row homes that appear to be stuck together, providing density while a well preserved and freshly painted wooded porch frames the entrances to four separate living units. The porch and roof trim are thematically linked by an eggshell blue paint which colors the low gabled roof and paired brackets that anchor the cornices (Image 2 and 4). Now sporting a handicapped accessible wheelchair lift and close proximity to the next-door rainbow park, the elegant 64 Edgewood has served generations of tenants in the Dwight neighborhood of New Haven since its construction in 1910 (2).