Laurel Beach Association

"The Laurel Beach Casino (LBC) is a one-and-a-half-story, wood-frame, private community building in Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, constructed in the Craftsman style by local architect and contractor Clarence V. Sewell in 1929 for the Laurel Beach Association. Located approximately 1,000 feet from Long Island Sound, the casino is part of an early twentieth-century planned seasonal resort.

 

The building illustrates the Craftsman style through its massing. It has a horizontally emphasized, long, low rectangular shape with a steeply pitched hipped roof pierced by shed-roofed dormers on each elevation. A deep, wrap-around porch is set under the roof; it extends the width of the southwest and southeast elevations as well as the partial width on the northeast elevation.

 

Other characteristic features of the style present include wood shingle exterior wall cladding and minimal ornamentation. A porte-cochère, also terminating in a hipped roof, is centered on the northeast elevation. A long, narrow, one-story wing with a hipped roof is attached to the building’s northeast corner and contains a four-lane bowling alley.

 

The LBC remains on its original site within the Laurel Beach neighborhood and has been relatively unaltered since its construction." (from the Application pg. 4)

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To read why it is called a Casino, look in the application pages 15-21