Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Elisha Blackman Building, also known as York-Chapel Building, was built in 1883. It occupies a corner of York and Chapel Streets in the Downtown New Haven neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. It is a four story commercial building whose "brick and stone work that is first rate". The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.The building was an investment by Elisha Blackman, a carriage maker. It is "quite possible" that neighbors, on what were nice residential-only streets, were displeased by the development of this multi-storey building with commercial space on its first floor and apartments above.The design, by an unknown architect, and the workmanship of the building is quite fine. The brick and stone is arranged into pilasters, corbelling and string courses. It has a metal clad cornice.There was a fire in the building in 1977 and the building was vacated. At the time of the NRHP application there were rehabilitation plans.. }
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- Elisha_Blackman_Building abstract "The Elisha Blackman Building, also known as York-Chapel Building, was built in 1883. It occupies a corner of York and Chapel Streets in the Downtown New Haven neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. It is a four story commercial building whose "brick and stone work that is first rate". The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.The building was an investment by Elisha Blackman, a carriage maker. It is "quite possible" that neighbors, on what were nice residential-only streets, were displeased by the development of this multi-storey building with commercial space on its first floor and apartments above.The design, by an unknown architect, and the workmanship of the building is quite fine. The brick and stone is arranged into pilasters, corbelling and string courses. It has a metal clad cornice.There was a fire in the building in 1977 and the building was vacated. At the time of the NRHP application there were rehabilitation plans.".