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Printed on front of card: "Detail from the Mantel Decoration in the Florence Griswold House, Old Lyme, Conn."

Printed on front of card: "Detail from the Mantel Decoration in the Florence Griswold House, Old Lyme, Conn."

Printed on front of card: "Detail from the Mantel Decoration in the Florence Griswold House, Old Lyme, Conn."

A colonial revival house with a picket fence in front. Handwritten on reverse: "Prof Charles Cameron Clark Jr Yale 83." Clark, a Professor of French, acquired the house in 1903 from Henry Farnum.

The effects of the September 21, 1938 hurricane and flood at 26 Hillhouse Avenue. This house at the corner of Hillhouse and Trumbull Streets was built about 1884 by Charles Henry Farnam. It was later bought by Henry S. Parmelee. Philip H. English was…

Exterior of a house at 311 Crown Street. Handwritten below the photo is "Yale Bicentennial, October, 1901." A banner with "Yale '92" and several smaller banners with the letter "Y" are visible.

Handwritten on reverse: "This house was purchased in an unfinished condition by the Hon. Elizur Goodrich, father of Professor Chauncey A. Goodrich in 1801 or 1802 and completed to suit his needs. Northwest corner of Temple and Wall Sts. Demolished by…

Built by Eli Ives in 1814 and later rebuilt by Dexter Alden between 1867 and 1886. Yale bought it after Mrs. Alden's death in 1912 and used it as a boarding house, then demolished it to build Timothy Dwight College about 1934.

On the northwest corner of Whitney Avenue and Edwards Street, this house was designed by Edward T. Hapgood. Originally it was the home of Reverend Williston Walker. Later, Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush lived here.

Text on front of card reads, "Where several Acadian peasants from Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, were sheltered by the town, having been put ashore here from British ships in 1755 (see Longfellow's Evangeline)."