Photoessay #2024 - Maier Zunder's House!

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Wait a second for the image to come up on Google maps but I think I've identified Maier Zunder's house.  And it's still standing.  Mary Ann and I went right by it last November, we took pictures across the street. 


I've already called MaryAnn.  She promises to go down there and take a picture.


Colin Caplan, the historian and architect in New Haven.  I knew he would know where it was.  I had two addresses 212 and 352 Orange Street.  I thought they were different houses; Sarah thought they might be the same house but just renumbered.  At first, I didn't think that was true.  Then I heard that State Street had been renumbered and State Street is right next to Orange Street.  Then I found a newspaper article when Maier had said that he found some old papers (from 20 years ago) hidden underneath.  Don't know why that was in the paper....  so that indicated it was the same house.


Colin has quiet a few old New Haven pictures and the one that he had labeled 212 Orange did not look grand enough.  Mary Ann and I tried to find 352 Orange but it was a parking lot across the the Housing Authority.  But it looked like a promising neighborhood.


Colin, who knows, says this is the house.  Take it a little to the right.  Looks sufficiently grand for such an important man.  There's also a family story about how Maier let Jewish families emigrating from Russia live in the fourth floor of his house until they could find their own place.  This has a fourth floor.


I'm dying to go and poke around.  Next trip!