Author: [Real Estate Prospectus]
Title: SEASIDE HOMES For 170 Families. Where to Find Them, How Much They will Cost, and All About Them. Containing Also a Map of the Coast for Several Miles in Both Directions, and a Diagram of Cottage Sites at Clinton Beach, Clinton, Conn
Description: Clinton, Conn: Stannard & Chapman, Proprietors, (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed). Ca 1900. Printed green paper wrappers, stapled. Rear wrapper with map of Clinton Beach vis-a-vis Duck Island. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 14 pp. 2 page map at booklet center, depicting the lots on Clinton Beach [drawn by Richmond & Seabury, Architects]. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Modest wear. Staples rusted. A VG+ item. Clinton, today a bedroom community for New Haven, traces it's history from the 17th C. In the 1800s, the town adopted its present name, after New York governor DeWitt Clinton. A minor claim to fame for the community is that Yale University can trace its roots to a parsonage in Clinton. The site of the development described herein is now found along Clinton's Shore Road. OCLC records just one institutional holding [in Canada].

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