42 Terrace Avenue

The house is significant architecturally because it is a good example of a fanciful expression of the Queen Anne style. The projecting tower under bell-shaped roof, rounded porch, truncated left front corner of the house all contribute to the imaginative, asymmetric success of the design.

The house is significant historically because it was the home of A. C. Tuttle, of the Tuttle family who co-founded the Eastern Malleable Iron Company with John H. Whittemore. After the death of A. C. Tuttle, Mrs. Tuttle, remembered as a grande dame of the community, maintained the property beautifully for years.

Dana J. Blackwell, interview, August 15, 1986.

H. F. Donlan, comp., The Citizen’s Naugatuck Souvenir (Naugatuck, 1895), p. 27, historic photograph.