In 1893 a house at the corner of Dixwell Avenue and Webster Street became the quarters for Police Station 4. In 1906 the house was replaced by this building, designed specifically as a police precinct. Since its inception, the police department had provided a reliable source of employment for many of the city’s immigrant Irish residents. By 1906 these immigrants and their children occupied leadership positions in the Department, including 4 of 6 police commissioners, Chief of Police, and Captain and Sergeant in the 4th Precinct.

Text source courtesy Connecticut Irish American Historical Society.

On the Lower Dixwell Tour

1 | St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

2 | Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

3 | Goffe Street Special School for Colored Children & Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Masons

4 | The Odd Fellows

5 | East Rock Lodge #141, I.B.P.O.E. of W.

6 | Congregation Keser Israel

7 | United House of Prayer for All People

8 | Police Station 4

8 | St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church

9 | Lyric Theater

10 | Dixwell Community House

11 | Winchester School

12 | Dixwell Congregational Church, United Church of Christ

13 | Hannah Gray Home

14 | Varick African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

15 | Florence Virtue Homes

16 | N. & B. Sosensky’s Hardware

17 | Monterey Club

18 | Curry’s Confectionery

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