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Historical illustrations · Undated nineteenth-century illustration

Savin Rock House and grounds

Hotels, streetcars, amusements & the West Haven shoreline

An early illustration of Savin Rock House and its formal grounds, from the American Antiquarian Society’s resort-history exhibition.

Evidence, credit & reuse: Public domain in the United States. Historical US illustration reproduced by AAS; matching Commons image SavinRockDrawing.jpg is marked PD-US. AAS dates the neighboring menu circa 1861 but does not explicitly date this separate illustration. Do not transfer that date to the drawing. Resized if needed and JPEG-compressed. No crop, rotation, colorization, retouching, or generated content.

Source: Unknown artist. American Antiquarian Society. Public domain in the United States.

Savin Rock House and grounds
Unknown artist. American Antiquarian Society. Public domain in the United States.. Undated nineteenth-century illustration. Open the full image to inspect small print.

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Silent Grounds Collective, Savin Rock, SGC-SR-012, SR-010, “Savin Rock House and grounds.” Source: Unknown artist. American Antiquarian Society. Public domain in the United States.. https://collections.americanantiquarian.org/vacationing/resortsandhotels.htm. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.

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