Welcome to our new website. We promise to keep updating if you promise to keep visiting!
We are honored to be among the recipients of a preservation award from the New Haven Preservation Trust! Thank you.
Thank you to everyone who supported us for The Great Give! We were able to raise over $2000 to support Walk New Haven Cultural Heritage Tours and other programs.
COVID-19 UPDATE: OUR FACILITY IS CURRENTLY CLOSED. WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO RE-OPENING SOON! PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU NEED TO DO RESEARCH IN OUR ARCHIVES.
NEW WALK NEW HAVEN TOUR COMING SOON!!!
Did you see us in the news? Recently the New Haven Independent gave a marvelous preview of our forthcoming Grand Avenue tour, which explores the history of the vibrant neighborhood that once included the New Haven Clock Factory, St. Patrick’s Church, and Marzullo Bakery, and tells the stories of vaudeville performers, jazz musicians, butchers, hatters, and so much more. We are very excited about bringing this new book and multimedia project (our fifth tour for Walk New Haven Cultural Heritage Tours) to the public this summer.
Beginning in Fall 2019, three Southern Connecticut State University Journalism students, Hunter Lyle, Alfredo Rivera and Faith Williams have helped the Ethnic Heritage Center on the upcoming tour focusing on the history of “Inner Grand Avenue” (i.e. between East and State Street) from the 1700s to the 1960s. The group of Southern Connecticut State University Journalism students conducted interviews with former business owners and residents of the Inner Grand Avenue neighborhood to help create the content for our next Walk New Haven publication. Most pictures and resources were found in the archives of EHC member societies. Anyone with historic pictures or stories of this neighborhood is invited, and encouraged, to share them with us.
SCSU Capstone students Faith Williams, Alfredo Rivera and Hunter Lyle with EHC members Pat Heslin, Rhoda Zahler Samuel, and Harold Miller at SCSU Adanti Center. December, 2019.
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We are graciously hosted on the site of Southern Connecticut State University – thank you to President Joe and the entire SCSU administration for their generous support of our organization over many years.
