Happy to help! I did it for a while and it was a great experience for both families.

You could be Cultural Companions for a refugee family through IRIS

Yeah, it's closed for now. Hasn't reopened yet since the pandemic

Are you familiar with the program? They're bringing in social workers and mental health professionals to help folks going through a hard time, instead of criminalizing their behavior.

Oh that's so cool! I'm glad I was able to help. My partner and I had a fun time researching it yesterday. Best of luck with your future genealogical adventures!

The house style is Second Empire, which was fashionable in the 1860s to 1870s. According to the 1869 Price & Lee City Directory, there was an Edward A. Mitchell who was quite rich (see p. 47), earning $30,273, or about $661,000 in 2023 dollars. His home (see p. 633) is listed as 133 Wooster St. But Wooster Square was already quite built up by then, so I doubt the pictured house is at that address. The 1886 Sanborn map shows a very different (and smaller) building shape at 133 Wooster.

I don't feel like doing more digging tonight, but those are both pretty solid reference materials I linked to, if you want to do more research on your own. You could also reach out to the New Haven Museum. Best of luck!

Update: He's buried in Evergreen Cemetery, which is on the western side of the city. There were/are a lot of grand homes near Edgewood Park, so this home may have been out that way.

Update: He died in his country home, Fernhurst, identified by /u/whathuhwhatwhen. Fernhurst was in East Haven.

Update: success! I followed up on /u/tigerraaaaandy's lead that the home was owned by Frank Kimberly as of 1902, who was having steam heating installed for the home and 7 greenhouses. Further, that Frank Kimberly owned a home on the corner of Townsend and Munn (directory entry). I looked up the 1911 Atlas of New Haven, and at that corner, you can see the outline of a large home, as well as 7 outbuildings that could well be greenhouses. The property is marked as belonging to Frank H. Kimberly. Munn St has since been renamed as a continuation of Fort Hale Road, and Hall St has been added, so it's a little hard to say precisely where it was. There are no homes remotely like this photo on Townsend in the vicinity of Fort Hale Road or Hall Street, so I conclude that the home was there, but no longer exists.

Update: and for the curious, while that area is now the East Shore neighborhood of New Haven, in 1876 it was part of East Haven. When East Haven could no longer afford to maintain the bridge that's where the Rte. 1 bridge over the Quinnipiac is today (and that Charles Mitchell helped oversee its funding and construction), East Haven sold off land east of the Quinnipiac to New Haven to pay its debts. That's why Morris Cove, East Shore, the Annex, Fair Haven Heights, and Quinnipiac Meadows are now part of New Haven.

Fellow general homebody here! Based off your interest in books, I'd suggest checking out the Institute Library downtown. They have a lot of events.

Neverending Books is funky and also has events.

There's a local sci-fi and fantasy book club listed on Meetup that appears to be active.

I also suggest browsing local meetups (previous link) in general. That's how I met a lot of my friends here. It was for an activity I'd never done before. I was nervous but ended up meeting a lot of great people, many of whom I've now been friends with for years.

What do you like to do for fun? Or what have you can wanting to try out? Finding others who share your interests is a great place to start

The main library has a cafe in it too!

Already partially reopened as common grounds!

Fair Haven Heights is east of the Quinnipiac River, and there's a big hill thus the Heights

Residential parking passes don't require ct plates. The guide linked here has instructions for cars not registered in New Haven. https://www.newhavenct.gov/government/departments-divisions/transportation-traffic-parking/parking-enforcement/residential-parking

Resident passes are a sticker. Visitor passes are intended for if you're having visitors for a shorter time, like sometime is coming for the weekend and needs to park. They hang from the rear view mirror.