The Sherman Building, New Haven, Connecticut:
At 1032 Chapel Street is an upscale French cuisine restaurant known as Union League Café. The establishment is named after Union League Club of New Haven, a private civic and social club between the 1880s and 1940s. The building was renamed to honor the site’s 18th century property owner, Roger Sherman. Today, the parcel is a prime example of how real estate can undergo extensive adaptive reuse.
Roger Sherman lived here as early as 1770 in a saltbox-shaped Colonial and across the street from Yale College. With him were his second wife Rebecca Prescott Sherman and his fifteen children. He served as New Haven’s first Mayor and United States Congressman and was the only person to sign all four of the great state papers: The Continental Association, The Declaration of Independence, The Articles of Confederation and The United States Constitution. President George Washington visited Roger Sherman’s New Haven home as part of his 1789 presidential tour of New England.
In 1860, the Sherman House was demolished and replaced by an Italianate style home designed by famed architect Henry Austin. The new owner was Gaius Fenn Warner, owner of a manufacturer of malleable ironworks called G. F. Warner & Co. The property became home an Marshal Peter R. Carll’s Opera House (1884), the Republican League (1887) and then the Union League Club of New Haven (1902). The current Beaux Arts facade was added by New Haven architect Richard Williams, giving the exterior its familiar arched expression.
Read more about the Sherman Building and other historic curiosities of New Haven at Rogershermanhouse.com courtesy of Arthur Mullen.
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