Prospect Hill, New Haven
Prospect Hill is a neighborhood of the city of New Haven, Connecticut located in the north central portion of the city, directly north of Downtown New Haven. The neighborhood contains residences, institutional buildings of Albertus Magnus University and a portion of the main campus of Yale University, including the Science Hill area, the Hillhouse Avenue area and the Yale Peabody Museum. The City of New Haven defines the neighborhood to be the region bounded by the town of Hamden in the north, Winchester Avenue in the west, Munson Street/Hillside Place/Prospect Street in the southwest, Trumbull Street in the south, and Whitney Avenue in the east. Prospect Street is the main thoroughfare through the neighborhood.
Historic district
The Prospect Hill Historic District is a 185-acre (75 ha) historic district that is significant primarily for its architecture. It encompasses most of the residential portion of the Prospect Hill neighborhood. The historic district includes major collections of Queen Anne architecture, Shingle Style architecture, Colonial Revival architecture, and Tudor Revival architecture. Numerous other styles are also represented. Some of the more significant properties which are included in the neighborhood are:
Prospect Hill
Prospect Hill may refer to:
in Australia
in the United States (by state then city)
- Prospect Hill Historic District (New Haven, Connecticut), largely overlapping, listed on the NRHP in New Haven County, Connecticut
Prospect Hill (Long Green, Maryland)
Prospect Hill is a historic home located at Long Green, Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2 1⁄2-story Federal style brick house, built between 1796 and 1798.
Prospect Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
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Prospect Hill Historic District (Willimantic, Connecticut)
The Prospect Hill Historic District in the Willimantic section of Windham, Connecticut, is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It encompasses a 40-block residential neighborhood directly north of the Main Street commercial district and is one of the largest NRHP-listed historic districts in the state, with 993 contributing buildings at the time of listing. The district is bounded by Washburn Street and Bolivia Street in the north, by Jackson Street in the east, by Valley Street in the south, and by Birch Street on the west (but excluding the campus of Eastern Connecticut State University).
