History: 464 amity road

Located on an elevated site on the west side of the road just. above the intersection with North Pease Road, this house faces east.

464 Amity Road is a Colonial Revival Cape with a five-bay facade. The central doorway has a four-paned overlight and paired narrow pilasters. There are two gabled dormers in the front slope of the roof. The one-story gabled intersecting ell with a garage also displays a dormer. On the right elevation of the main block is a one-story bay window. Most of the windows contain 6-over-1 sash except for the bank of multi-paned Windows on the left elevation.



Historically important for its association with the Tyler family, this property was once part of the country estate of Morris F. Tyler, a prominent attorney in New Haven, who at one time was mayor of that city and in the 1880s, president of Southern New England Telephone. In the early twentieth century he also served as the treasurer of Yale University. -According to local sources, this Cape was a summer home.* When he died, his heirs, including Morris V. Tyler, who later built 22 Penryhn Road, sold a 15-acre parcel with this house to Alice B. Hitchcock, the wife of Harry E. Hitchcock of Maine. The rest of the extensive farm acreage was subdivided and became part of the suburban development on Fairgrounds Road. In. June of 1942, Alice Hitchcock, who then lived in California, sold the property to Clement C. Clarke, and the property is still part of his estate.