Hillside and Overlook: Introduction

The Hillside and Overlook neighborhoods provided gracious settings for the homes of the middle class and the owners of the city’s largest businesses for more than a century. Their proximity to the city, its workplaces, and its residents helped to intimately connect Waterbury’s business leaders to the city’s public and social affairs during its period of rapid expansion and prosperity.

"Evening entertainments were described as "a pageant of splendid pictures: crystal chandeliers mirrored the polished floors, fountains of flowers from the Rose Hill gardens... ladies in brilliant fabric... gentlemen in dark apparel looking like exclamation points... and Aunt Jane refulgant in scarlet velvet, a tremendous diamond twinkling on her high forehead, leading off the 'Grand March.'"
~ Jane Welton's niece describing parties held at the Rose Hill mansion on Prospect Street in the 1860s.

Both neighborhoods are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, recognizing their architectural quality, which continues to attract residents today.

Introduction Hillside Overlook	Hillside and Overlook: Introduction The Hillside and Overlook neighborhoods provided gracious settings for the homes of the middle class and the owners of the city’s largest businesses for more than a century. Their proximity to the city, its workplaces, and its residents helped to intimately connect Waterbury’s business leaders to the city’s public and social affairs during its period of rapid expansion and prosperity. "Evening entertainments were described as "a pageant of splendid pictures: crystal chandeliers mirrored the polished floors, fountains of flowers from the Rose Hill gardens... ladies in brilliant fabric... gentlemen in dark apparel looking like exclamation points... and Aunt Jane refulgant in scarlet velvet, a tremendous diamond twinkling on her high forehead, leading off the 'Grand March.'" ~ Jane Welton's niece describing parties held at the Rose Hill mansion on Prospect Street in the 1860s. Both neighborhoods are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, recognizing their architectural quality, which continues to attract residents today.	Engagement dinner party for William White and Mary Elizabeth Wade in the White family home on Grove Street, 1904. Collection of Mattatuck Museum. Children playing blindman's bluff outside Hiram Hayden's home on Pine Street. Collection of Mattatuck Museum.
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