Dana House

Location: New Haven, CT

Construction Manager: Petra Construction

Located on New Haven’s bucolic Hillhouse Avenue among other 19th century Yale mansions, we brought this historic property up to current codes to improve the infrastructure and make it more accessible – sitework and site concrete work included:

• Installation of underground storm water detention.
• Excavation for staircases and installation of piers for an accessible ramp.
• Placing in of a ductile iron fire sprinkler pipe for fire suppression.
• One of the project’s challenges was the tree on the Trumbull Street side of the property – see photo to the left. It is touted as the ‘oldest’ Sycamore tree in New Haven and required oversight by an arborist to manage its care – we performed excavation by air spading and hand digging around the root system.

Some Interesting History From Wikipedia:
The James Dwight Dana House, also known as the Dana House, is a historic 19th-century Italianate house at 24 Hillhouse Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States. This building, designed by New Haven architect Henry Austin, was the home of Yale University geology professor James Dwight Dana (1813–95). It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965 for its association with Dana, who produced the first published works emphasizing that the study of geology was a much broader discipline than the examination of individual rocks,.. (read more)