NEW HAVEN >> Hiram Bingham III, when he wasn’t bringing back boatloads of artifacts from Peru and spreading the word about Machu Picchu, called a 30-room house on Prospect Street home.
It was not only famous for the Yale lecturer and his travels to South America, but the Italian Villa Revival mansion was also called the Tiffany House after Bingham married Alfreda Mitchell, the granddaughter of Charles Tiffany of Fifth Avenue fame.
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