The end came with a new invention called the “horseless carriage” during the Gilded Age.By 1896, the first electric car was built by Brewster & Co, and by 1905 the company had ceased making horse-drawn carriages in favor of automobile bodies.Today, Goffe Street connects Broadway to Westville through the Dixwell, and Beaver Hills neighborhoods while passing by public buildings, parks, churches, residences, and neighborhood stores.Existing Conditions Dixwell to Sperry Goffe Street exits Broadway as the central prong of the fork with Dixwell Avenue to its north and Whalley Avenue to its south.

And while I may carry coachman’s DNA, I have never taken over the reins from a driver until last week when a friend offered to take me for a drive around my neighborhood with one of her horses pulling a light, two-wheeled ‘buggy.’ Carriages by Brewster & Co. The Brewster family had vast showrooms filled with Landaus, Broughams and Lady’s Phaetons, with factories in New York City and New Haven dating back to 1810. produced beautiful hand-built carriages, even earning a gold medal at the Paris Exposition in 1878.

Introduction If you are coming in from out of town, well be happy to take you out on Tuesday or Wednesday night to sample a little downtown New Haven.

The city is a great destination and has tons great restaurants and interesting things to do at night.

But even then, the custom-made “coaches” couldn’t compete with mass-produced automobiles and in 1925 Brewster & Co. William Brewster, Brewster & Co.s final president had a daughter named Barbara Brewster Taylor who lived in Southport, CT.

Each year she would graciously open her estate – surrounded by natural jumping obstacles simulating a fox hunt – to host the Fairfield County Hounds annual hunter trials up until the late 1970s.