The Ansonia Opera House is the largest and most prominent of the district's buildings. It was built about 1870, and is a fine example of Italianate architecture executed in brick and stone. Across the street stands the Savings Bank of Ansonia building, a neo-Classical structure with an elaborate granite facade. Immediately north of the opera house stands a two-story Romanesque building finished in yellow brick. The buildings extending north from it are all brick three-story buildings, whose most architecturally sophisticated elements are their cornices, some of which are elaborately worked.
