Cheney & Company

A History of the Building

The Grand Avenue Bridge

At a Place Known as Dragon

Fair Haven

Grand Avenue Transportation

King's Block Stores

Sources

The following are the sources consulted in preparing the pages on the King's Block and related stories. Most can be found at Whitney Library (the New Haven Colony Historical Society Library), the Hall of Records, or Sterling Memorial Library at Yale.

Additional information was gathered from a conversation with Richard Mazan on March 12, 1998.

Bushnell, Curtis, C., Historical Sketch of Old Fair Haven. (New Haven: JT Hathaway, 1916).

Business Directory and Map of Fair Haven, compiled by John Kirby. (New Haven, CT : John Burgess Press, 1981).

Fair Haven Tribune

Galpin, Virginia M., New Haven's Oyster Industry. (New Haven: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1989).

Giglietti, Mark, "Fair Haven and the Fair Haven and Westville Horse Railroad, Co.," paper for History of the Built Environment: Architecture 913b, Yale University, 13 April, 1992.

McAlester, Virginia & McAlester, Lee, A Field Guide to American Houses. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984).

Nalle, Jesse, Application to the State Historic Preservation Society.

New Haven Bureau of Engineering. "Building Line Map." 1877.

New Haven Land Records, 1811-1997.

New Haven City Directories (New Haven, CT: JH Benham, 1840-1875).

New Haven City Directories (New Haven, CT: Price & Lee, Co., 1975-1977)

New Haven Preservation Trust. New Haven Historic Resource Inventory.

Sterne, Eve, "A History of Our Home," Business Digest of Greater New Haven, Sept. 1988, p 35.

Townshend, Doris B., Fair Haven: A Journey Through Time (New Haven, CT: New Haven Colony Historical Society, 1976).