Welch Training School, New Haven
Acquired: one licensed October 20, 2008 exterior photograph. Welch Training School / Welch School, 495 Congress Avenue at Vernon Street, Hill neighborhood, New Haven. The repository caption uses 485; the National Register identifies 495. The 1982 nomination and its interior/exterior photographs are external consultation leads, not reproduced display assets.

id: NHWT-001
title: Welch’s Congress Avenue facade in autumn
kind: Photographs
date: October 20, 2008
summary: The brick school’s mansard roof and dormers rise above the Congress Avenue streetscape.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welch_Training_School_in_New_Haven,_October_20,_2008.jpg
credit: Sage Ross / Wikimedia Commons; resized and JPEG recompressed.
notes: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic. Full image preserved proportionally; EXIF orientation normalized. This is the Welch Training School subject despite repository caption using 485 instead of the nomination’s 495 Congress Avenue.
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institution: Welch Training School, New Haven
accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: NHWT-002
title: National Register nomination: Welch Training School
kind: Sources & research leads
date: September 1982
summary: Seven-page property record with architecture, training program, historical dates, bibliography and site identification.
url: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/83001286_text
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: Prepared September 1982 by Jack A. Gold and edited by John Herzan; linked for consultation. State/consultant authorship means federal hosting alone is not treated as a reproduction license. External source reference; the complete source is not reproduced in this download.
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id: NHWT-003
title: Welch Training School, four nomination photographs
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 1982
summary: Four exterior and interior photographs with identification sheets, documenting the building in 1982.
url: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/83001286_photos
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: Rights not independently cleared; original PDF retained as research source but not included among display assets. External source reference; the complete source is not reproduced in this download.
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id: NHWT-004
title: New Haven Board of Education annual reports, 1882–1887
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 1882–1887
summary: The nomination identifies municipal annual reports as its principal period sources.
url: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/83001286_text
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: Further acquisition lead: locate the 1883–1884 report and dedication address; no unverified scan is presented. External source reference; the complete source is not reproduced in this download.
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id: NHWT-005
title: Supporting source: en.wikipedia.org
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source consulted September 2026
summary: Supporting source for the collection history and chronology.
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welch_Training_School
credit: Original publisher or holding institution, linked at source
notes: External source; consult the original publication for its full context.
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id: ED-L-WEL-ADD-001
title: Design for the Welch Training School, figure 72
kind: Photographs
date: 1886 publication
institution: Welch Training School, New Haven
summary: The 1886 school-design manual presents Welch as an architectural model.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hints_and_suggestions_on_school_architecture_and_hygiene_(microform)_-_with_plans_and_illustrations_(IA_cihm_07229).pdf
credit: J. George Hodgins, Ontario Education Department; Public Archives of Canada copy, Canadiana/Internet Archive
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Printed page 121; PDF viewer page not resolved. Verified in digitized book’s illustration list and OCR; new source. Two distinct figures, not two crops of one image. Reuse: Public domain; 1886 publication and Commons PD-Canada statement
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id: ED-L-WEL-ADD-002
title: Ground plan of Welch Training School, figure 73
kind: Photographs
date: 1886 publication
institution: Welch Training School, New Haven
summary: The ground plan makes classroom placement, circulation and daylight visible. The accompanying discussion addresses ventilation and heating.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hints_and_suggestions_on_school_architecture_and_hygiene_(microform)_-_with_plans_and_illustrations_(IA_cihm_07229).pdf
credit: J. George Hodgins, Ontario Education Department; Public Archives of Canada copy, Canadiana/Internet Archive
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Printed page 122; PDF viewer page not resolved. Verified in digitized book’s illustration list and OCR; new source. Two distinct figures, not two crops of one image. Reuse: Public domain; 1886 publication and Commons PD-Canada statement
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