Architect Charles Henry Boebe NRHP Reference # 70000714 Year built 1835 | Architectural style Greek Revival Area 1 ha Added to NRHP 29 December 1970 | |
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Location 105-119 Huntington St., New London, Connecticut | ||
Whale Oil Row consists of a row of four nearly identical high quality Greek Revival houses at 105-119 Huntington Street in New London, Connecticut. All four were built between 1835 and 1845 by Charles Henry Beebe, and three were owned by men directly involved in whaling; the fourth was owned by a dry goods merchant. All four are distinguished by their two-story gabled porticos, supported by fluted columns, with a semicircular window in the gable pediment. The first one (105 Huntington) differs slightly from the others in being slightly wider than the others, extending on either side of the front portico. This assembly of Greek temple front houses may be unique in the United States.
The group of houses was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.