596-598 GEORGE STREET

The building was built in 1885 but is not known to have been occupied by the Blakeslee brothers until 1890. Clarence .B , a civil engineer , graduated from Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in 1885. He was associated with his father's contracting company, C.W Blakeslee. Theodore R. Blakeslee was a travelling salesman when he lived here. By 1895 he had moved elsewhere on George street.

This building was apparently built as a single structure designed to resemble two attached single family residences. A recessed two bay section with a gabled dormer joins two identical three bay facades. The eastern first storey window has an elaborate stained glass upper pane. Two tall corbel -capped end chimneys rise from the roof. The front facing gable ends hold triple lights set in wide round arched frames with ornamental trim. Floral terracotta tiles fill each gable peak. Blackened bricks border cornice level string courses of floral terracotta tiles. Blackened ans pyramidal bricks also form arches above the building's window. Window sills are of vermiculated sandstone with margins. Rock faces sandstone blocks with margins form the water table and foundation. #596 has its original door and entry porch. #598 has a solid enclosed full front brick porch. The foundation of an iron fence is visible around #598 in the sandstone curbing surrounding the full structure.

Connecticut Historical Commission