Posts have become even less frequent because of a research trip to Manhattan and New Jersey…
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Reid Buckley describes* Lamb & Rich’s clock tower in Sharon, Connecticut:
[T]he clock is referred to always as a structure in “Gothic” style, with its granite blocks quarried nearby in Sharon, its red stones imported from Potsdam, New York. But it is properly called “Richardsonian Romanesque,” I am informed by Liz Shapiro of the Sharon Historical Society, after a New York architect by the name of Charles Alonzo Rich, who is described as “renowned,” would he had not.
I am not sure that the Buckleys always would have referred to the tower as Gothic, since they knew Yale’s Gothic campus well. The fact that “Richardsonian Romanesque” is named for Henry Hobson Richardson also seems to be well known.
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*Reid Buckley, An American Family: The Buckleys (Threshold Editions, 2008), 225-226 n3.
[Update 12.31.2009: This information reposted from Dartmo.c
[Update 07.17.2011: Post reworded.]