Naugatuck has more McKim, Mead & White commissions that anywhere else in Connecticut. John Howard Whittemore, a wealthy Naugatuck industrialist who made his fortune through the Eastern Malleable Iron Co., engaged America's most famous architectural firm 11 times. The Salem School (1893), facing the green, is Second Renaissance Revival constructed of brick with a central cupola. The Hillside School (1905), is Neo-Classical Revival, and sits atop the hillside above a triple flight of granite stairs. It looks like a Grecian temple. From above, one views east over the World War I Monument (1921). The sculpted limestone monument has the form of a sarcophagus. Low bas-relief figures represent Peace and War.
Above, on Terrace Ave., is situated a whimsical Victorian house.
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