About the neighborhood
“Beaver Hills was one of the nation’s first planned communities.”
According to the New Haven Preservation Trust, the Beaver Hills Historic District is significant for its collection of early 20th-century residences.
“While a number of popular building styles are represented in the district, the area is particularly notable for its of Tudor Revival single-family houses. It also has one of the city’s largest concentrations of pre-1945 Colonial Revival houses.
“Many of the homes represent the work of locally prominent architects and builders of the era. One of New Haven’s earliest examples of a subdivision thoroughly planned, promoted, and developed under the auspices of a speculative real estate development corporation, it is also among the first residential neighborhoods in the city to acknowledge the arrival of the automobile.”
The Beaver Hills Historic District was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 31, 1986.
