<p>The Lyman Reservoir is the largest lake in the region. Lyman Lake State Park, is located in and administered by the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, attracts anglers, as well as campers and water skiers year-round.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Lyman Reservoir is located 17 mi north of Springerville.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>An irrigation impoundment on the Little Colorado River, Lyman Reservoir consists of 1,400 acre situated at 5,980 ft. The lake lies entirely within Lyman Lake State Park. Water levels fluctuate, but when full, the average depth is 22 ft, with a maximum depth of 57 ft. Lyman Reservoir is a warm water reservoir containing largemouth bass, channel catfish, green sunfish, carp and a few walleye.</p><br>
<h2>Amenities</h2><br>
<p>Anyone who has driven from Springerville to Alpine has seen Nelson Reservoir. A long and narrow lake, it follows the Nutrioso Creek Valley for nearly a mile. Fish that remain in Nelson Reservoir after summer stockings can grow to good size, making it a popular fishing site with local anglers.</p><br>
<h2>Locations</h2><br>
<p>Nelson Reservoir is situated at 7,412 ft on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, as such the facilities located here are managed by that authority.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Nelson Reservoir is located on Nutrioso Creek. It has 90 acre with a maximum depth of 24 ft and an average depth of 15 ft. When the lake stops spilling in the spring, it is stocked with up to 20,000 catchable-sized rainbow trout until Labor Day. Stocking may end sooner if water quality conditions become unfavorable. Nelson Reservoir is subject to algae blooms and excessive weed growth as summer progresses. The lake contains native bluehead suckers and illegally introduced black crappie and green sunfish. The lake once contained brown, cutthroat and brook trout, but none remain today.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Nelson Reservoir was named after Edmond Nelson, who owned the land in 1918 and had fished there as early as 1891.</p><br>
<p>Nelson and other family members began building the Nelson Reservoir in February 1891. After many years of work it was completed and provided water to the farms in the area, which was its original purpose.</p><br>
<h2>Fish species</h2><br>
<p>Rainbow</p><br>
<p>Crappie</p><br>
<p>Sunfish</p><br>
<p>Rainbow Lake is a 116-acre manmade lake near the town of Pinetop-Lakeside in southern Navajo County, Arizona, United States. The lake was created in 1903 when Mormon settlers dammed Walnut Creek, a tributary of the Little Colorado River, to impound water for irrigation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Settlers established communities in nearby Lakeside and Pinetop in the early 1880s. These settlements eventually grew into a single larger community called Lakeside, incorporated in 1986 as the Town of Pinetop-Lakeside. Rainbow Lake was originally built as a reservoir for the Pinetop-Woodland Lake Irrigation Company, who own all the water in the lake used for irrigation purposes. Water levels in the lake vary widely, depending on the season, precipitation, and the needs of the irrigation company.</p><br>
<p>In 1998, the Show Low Irrigation Company and the Pinetop-Woodland Irrigation Company merged; however, the land under the lake (to the "high water mark") is still owned by the Irrigation company as well as all the water. The land surrounding the lake is privately owned and not generally accessible to the public; however, the Arizona Game and Fish Department owns a small parcel of land on the northwest side of the lake at an elevation of 6,760 ft, where it maintains a Public Landing for fishing and recreational boating. Rainbow Lake now lies just outside the boundaries of the Town of Pinetop-Lakeside, adjacent to Arizona State Route 260.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Rainbow Lake is 116 acre, with a maximum depth of 14 ft and an average depth of 7 ft. It is a part of the Walnut Creek drainage, which fills three lakes in the area, including Woodland Park Lake (owned by the Town of Pinetop-Lakeside), Rainbow Lake, and the privately owned Lake of the Woods. Rainbow Lake is mostly surrounded by homes, including the private HOA Shores at Rainbow Lake on the southeast side. It is a prominent recreational feature of the Pinetop-Lakeside area, known for its fishing, boating, and wildlife habitats.</p><br>
<p>Currently, Arizona Game and Fish stocks the lake with catchable-sized rainbow trout in the spring and early summer. Naturally propagating warm water species include largemouth bass, channel catfish, black bullhead, bluegill and green sunfish. The lake also contains illegally introduced northern pike. Because it is shallow and weedy, Rainbow Lake is subject to significant water quality problems.</p><br>
<p>In past years, Rainbow Lake has also had a significant problem with invasive aquatic weeds, particularly the Eurasian watermilfoil, Myriophyllum spicatum. Efforts by the local volunteer group Show Low Creek Watershed Enhancement Partnership (SLCWEP), in conjunction with the Little Colorado River Plateau Resource Conservation and Development Area, Inc., resulted in a systemic herbicide treatment of the lake in the summer and fall of 2011. The results were not as good as hoped, with the equally problematic coontail weed rapidly replacing the watermilfoil in the lake. Long-term efforts by the Rainbow Lake Coalition (a subcommittee of the SLCWEP) are now focused on the introduction of sterile white Amur carp, which have been proven to control excessive growth of watermilfoil for up to 10 years. Arizona Game and Fish requires mediation to ensure that the carp, a non-native fish, are prevented from escaping Rainbow Lake and potentially invading other water bodies. The Rainbow Lake Coalition is now working to design and construct a fish barrier on Walnut Creek below Lake of the Woods, which has used the carp for weed control for many years.</p><br>
<h2>Fish species</h2><br>
<p>Rainbow trout</p><br>
<p>Largemouth bass</p><br>
<p>Sunfish</p><br>
<p>Channel catfish</p><br>
<p>Black bullhead</p><br>
<p>Bluegill</p><br>
<p>Northern pike</p><br>
<p>The Hook and Ladder House No. 5 and the Detroit Fire Department Repair Shop are two cojoined structures located at 3400 and 3434 Russell Street in Detroit, Michigan. The Hook and Ladder House No. 5 is the second oldest surviving fire station in Detroit, was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1975 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Detroit Hook and Ladder House no. 5 was built in 1888; it was designed by the architectural firm of Malcomson and Higginbotham. The station was built to provide protection to the surrounding neighborhood and the imminently expanding Eastern Market. In 1911, a small annex was built to serve as a repair shop for the departments&#39;s growing fleet of motorized fire engines. In 1917, the larger repair shop designed by Raseman & Frier was built; the 1911 annex joins the repair shop to the hook and ladder house.</p><br>
<p>Hook and Ladder No. 5 was in use as a fire station until 1956, when a new station built nearby replaced it. The Detroit Fire Department Repair Shop was used until recently by the Detroit Department of Public Works as a maintenance yard, carpenter shop, and electrical shop.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Hook and Ladder house No. 5 is a two-story Queen Anne style red brick and stone building with third floor attic space. The roof is a steeply pitched hip roof with shingled dormers. The original wood swinging doors are still located on the front façade.</p><br>
<p>Both the small 1911 annex and the large 1917 repair shop are two story brick buildings trimmed with terra cotta. The repair shop has zero setback from the street, yet is clearly designed to relate to the fire station through the positioning of its southwest corner entrance at an angle meeting the setback of the fire station and annex.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The properties were listed on the state historical register in 1975, and on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. The Detroit Fire Department Repair Shop has been renovated, and is now known as the FD Lofts, featuring over 30 loft spaces from 900 to 1700 square feet.</p><br>
<p>Baltic is the town center village of the town of Sprague, Connecticut, and a census-designated place . The population of the CDP was 1,250 as of the 2010 census. The Sprague town hall is in Baltic. The Baltic Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, encompassing virtually the entire extent of the village.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Baltic was formed around a cotton mill established on the Shetucket River on land purchased in 1856 by former Rhode Island Governor and USA Senator William Sprague. The A. & W. Sprague Manufacturing Co. mill burned down in 1887. Subsequently, Frederick Sayles of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, purchased the site and built the Baltic Mills Co. cotton mill, which opened in 1899. The company operated until 1963, when the mill was sold to a syndicate from New York. The mill continued operating until 1967, when it was closed and the property and equipment were sold. In 1970 the property was sold to the Casper Division of Bevis Industries, which used it for a mail order operation.</p><br>
<p>The historic district includes 208 contributing buildings and two other contributing structures over a 122 acre area.</p><br>
<p>In August 1999, the remains of the mill were destroyed by fire. There was only one building that survived although it was also critically damaged</p><br>
<p>. It was soon after discovered that campus was set ablaze by three local boys.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>As of the 2010 census the Baltic CDP had a population of 1,250. The racial composition of Baltic was 81.0% white, 3.7% black or African American, 1.6% Native American, 2.6% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 5.4% from some other race and 5.7% from two or more races. 8.7% of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>Baltic is the site of a monthly Sprague River Run on the Shetucket River from April to October, which includes tubing and activities for children and adults.</p><br>
<p>The Colchester Village Historic District in Colchester, Connecticut is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1994. It is located at the junction of Route 16, Route 85, and Norwich Avenue . Roughly, the district extends to the northwest along Broadway Street  as far as Jaffe Terrace; east along Norwich Avenue to just short of Pleasant Street; south along South Main Street to just north of Hall Hill Road; west along Linwood Avenue  to just east of Kmick Lane.</p><br>
<p>The Colchester Town Green is located at the center of the district. Several commercial, residential and civic buildings mostly from the 19th century, surround the green, with the Colchester Federated Church in the Greek Revival style and the Bacon Academy (built in 1803 and separately listed on the NRHP) being the dominant structures. The Hayward House (built in 1767 and separately listed on the NRHP) is located on Hayward Avenue across the street from the green and is now being used as a bed and breakfast. Wheeler Block, the original town hall and also listed separately on the NRHP, is located across the green to the south on Norwich Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Noank Historic District is a historic district in the village of Noank in the town of Groton, Connecticut, that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The district&#39;s architectural significance derives from its numerous Greek Revival, Gothic, and Eastlake-detailed houses, which present a consistent 19th appearance by means of elements such as porches, fences, and pilasters.</p><br>
<p>The district boundaries includes almost all of what is known as Noank, including Elm Street, Prospect Hill Road, and Noank Peninsula east of Route 215, but it excludes certain areas. The nearby Goat Island was excluded from the district, because all early buildings were destroyed by the New England Hurricane of 1938, and various streets near Elm are lined with modern houses that significantly postdate the district.</p><br>
<p>Noanks leading building is a Baptist church, at the apex of the villages land. The core is an Italianate structure that was constructed in 1867; it originally featured twin towers, although they were swept away in 1938.</p><br>
<p>It includes the Noank Shipyard, at the location of the historic Palmer Shipyard.</p><br>
<p>It includes a former velvet mill built in 1905, which also was used by the state as a lobster hatchery. The building was used for a time by the University of Connecticut Marine Research Station.</p><br>
<p>Other contributing properties include:</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Catholic Church, 78 Front Street, shingled and with Gothic details</p><br>
<p>A Gothic Methodist church with Art Nouveau windows, which as of 1978 was re-used as apartments</p><br>
<p>A cobblestone Episcopal Church, used as a museum by 1978, and one of few non-wooden buildings in the community</p><br>
<p>Morgan&#39;s Point Lighthouse, an 1868 granite ashlar building with an octagonal tower,</p><br>
<p>There are about 260 houses in the district; their significance was the primary reason for the district&#39;s designation.</p><br>
<p>Preston City is a village and the original town center of the town of Preston, Connecticut. The core of the village around the junction of Old Northwest Road and Route 164 is designated as the Preston City Historic District, a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district is located along Old Shetucket and Amos Roads, which, prior to the 1930s, were major thoroughfares.</p><br>
<p>The historic district was listed on the National Register in 1987. It includes 24 contributing buildings, one other contributing structure, another contributing site, and three contributing objects. It includes representation of Greek Revival, Georgian, and Federal architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>Historically, Preston City was one of three distinct settlements in the town, the others being Poquetanuck and Long Society. The first Congregational church in Preston City was founded in 1698.</p><br>
<p>Preston City prospered in its early years when the town of Preston was an important supplier of agricultural products to the port of Norwich on the Thames River, from which local farm goods were shipped to other ports on the east coast. The period of greatest prosperity was between the American Revolutionary War and about 1830, and is reflected in the architecture of the homes built by successful local farmers and merchants.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>Preston City was established in 1686 as the town center for the newly designated town of Preston. The town of Preston was initially set up as an agricultural community for the port town of Norwich with Preston City as the focus for transporting farm goods to the larger town.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>Contributing properties in the district include a church, a library, a blacksmith shop, a former tavern, and a poorhouse, as well as houses and some barns. All buildings are of wood-frame construction.</p><br>
<p>The Preston City Baptist Church was built in 1812. The building was turned to a different orientation, and its "three-stage steeple and bell tower with a pyramidal roof" were added later, in 1832.</p><br>
<p>The James Treat House is the largest residence and is located prominently on Amos Road. The "Mott and Downer House", a five-bay colonial house, are both on Amos Road and were both built before the American Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>The Calvin Barstow House, a Georgian colonial house surrounded by a picket fence, was built during 1786-1800. It includes a meeting room for the St. James Masonic Temple.</p><br>
<p>The Aron B. Gates House, c. 1830 on Northwest Corner Road, is a Greek Revival building. It has a c.1900 barn.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Meech House, built in 1795, on Northwest Corner Road, is Federal/Colonial. It includes a facade overhang that is unique within the district.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Augustus Collins House, c. 1830, on Shetucket Road, is Greek Revival.</p><br>
<p>The "Old Town Pound" on Amos Road is a stone wall enclosure. It served as a pound, a common feature of British medieval villages (where stray livestock might be held).</p><br>
<p>One house, the Ephraim Jones House, used to be the poorhouse of Preston and was originally built in 1733.</p><br>
<p>Other contributing elements include the Civil War Monument and Mott Memorial, erected in 1898.</p><br>
<p>Non-contributing elements include a Revolutionary War Monument dating from 1967 and the Downer-Doane Memorial Park, which, as of 1986, is maintained by the Preston Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>As of 1986, the district&#39;s area included only three modern intrusions.</p><br>
<p>Quaker Hill Historic District is a historic district in the town of Waterford, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The district is a very irregularly shaped district that generally runs along Old Norwich Road. It includes the center of the historic Quaker Hill neighborhood. It excludes non-historic properties, including entire streets, of modern-day Quaker Hill.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 109 elements, of which 92 are contributing buildings, over a 102 acre area. It also includes 16 non-contributing buildings and one non-contributing site. Properties included in the district are: numbers 3 and 5 on Caroline Court; 3 Northwood Road; 2, 11, and 17 on Quaker Hill Green (Old Colchester Road); 2 Richard&#39;s Grove Road; 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, and 15 Rosemary Lane; and 54 parcels on Old Norwich Road ranging from numbers 91 to 209.</p><br>
<p>The original Quaker Hill was a community of dispersed farmsteads. No colonial buildings survive in the district.</p><br>
<p>The collection of buildings is architecturally significant.</p><br>
<p>Contributing properties in the district include:</p><br>
<p>the Christopher Green House, a Georgian style house dating from 1794, is the only stone building in the district.</p><br>
<p>the Benjamin Green house is a Colonial style house.</p><br>
<p>the John Rogers House, perhaps from 1782</p><br>
<p>Quaker Hill Baptist Church</p><br>
<p>Red Lion Tavern</p><br>
<p>Alexander House</p><br>
<p>Glassbrenner House, c. 1900, a Queen Anne/Colonial Revival 188 Old Norwich Road</p><br>
<p>Quaker Hill School, a large brick building with two-story pilasters</p><br>
<p>Quaker Hill Firehouse, from 1927</p><br>
<p>Ester Blum House, c. 1920, a four-square at 93 Old Norwich Road</p><br>
<p>John Burch House, c. 1800, 95 Old Norwich Road</p><br>
<p>James Moore House, c. 1860, a Gothic Revival cottage at 97 Old Norwich Road</p><br>
<p>Burnetts Corner is a village in the town of Groton, Connecticut, and the site of Burnett&#39;s Corner Historic District, a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Burnetts Corner grew up in the 18th and 19th centuries as a crossroads village and stagecoach stop on the Post Road that connected New York City and Boston. It takes its name from Richard Burnett (1801–1890), a former sea captain who operated the Pequot Hotel as an overnight stop on the Post Road. Burnetts Corner was bypassed by the railroad that was built through the area in 1858 and that largely replaced stagecoach travel.</p><br>
<p>Early in the 20th century, Burnetts Corner was the site of small-scale manufacturing operations, notably including a witch hazel mill built by T. N. Dickinson, Jr., in about 1907 and a ropewalk operated by a twine manufacturer. After the Gold Star Highway was built through the area in the 1930s, Burnetts Corner took on the function of a suburban community, housing people who commute to work by automobile.</p><br>
<h3>Historic district</h3><br>
<p>Burnett&#39;s Corner Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. It includes 30 contributing buildings and three other contributing sites over a 45 acre linear area along the Old Post Road (now Packer Road). Buildings in the district include representative examples of vernacular domestic architecture of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, including "fine examples" of both Colonial and Greek Revival styles. The Greek Revival-style Pequot Hotel, built in about 1842, is prominently located in the center of the district.</p><br>
<p>Brooklyn Green Historic District is a historic district on Route 169, Route 205, USA Route 6, Wolf Den, Brown, Prince Hill, and Hyde Roads in the town of Brooklyn, Connecticut. The district is notable for its Greek Revival, Colonial, and Federal architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district has significance as an illustration of certain broad patterns of development in Connecticut, for its collection of architecture, and for its association with historically important individuals.</p><br>
<p>The centerpiece of the district is the Brooklyn Green, a 1.75 acre village green in the center of the town. The Green is roughly a square bounded on four sides by streets. There are also two streets cutting across diagonally, resulting in four separate triangular sections. The eastern triangle contains the Brooklyn Meeting House. The area around the Green contains various important town buildings, including the town hall, town library, two churches (Trinity Episcopal and Federated Church of Christ), and several historic residences dating from the mid-18th century. The roads around the Green are Route 169 on the east, Putnam Place on the north and west, Brooklyn Common on the south. The diagonal streets are Wolf Den Road (northwest to southeast) and USA Route 6 (northeast to southwest).</p><br>
<p>The Green&#39;s adjacent buildings were photographed by the Historic American Buildings Survey program. The summary from the HABS catalog record is:</p><br>
<p>Little altered since the mid-nineteenth century, Brooklyn Green is significant as a small, rural area that still retains much of its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century material heritage. The physical organization of the area reflects the historical development of the town and the region, including its growth in the first half of the nineteenth century and decline in the decades that followed. Many of the buildings and structures located near the Brooklyn Green are architecturally significant, exemplifying the styles that were popular between 1750 and 1850, the area&#39;s period of greatest significance. Finally, some of the buildings and structures are associated with the lives of prominent individuals in Brooklyn history, including Israel Putnam (1718-1790) and Daniel Tyler, Jr. (ca. 1700-1800).</p><br>
<p>The Hampton Hill Historic District encompasses the historic village center of Hampton, Connecticut, a small rural community in Windham County. It is a linear district, extending for about 1 mi along Connecticut Route 97, the major north-south route through the town. The area was settled in the 18th century, but experienced its most significant growth in the 19th century. Most of the district&#39;s 62 historic buildings were built in the 19th century, with fifteen houses surviving from the 18th. Architecturally, they represent a cross-section of styles popular from the mid-18th to early 20th centuries, with vernacular forms most commonly found. One of the oldest buildings is a c. 1727 tavern, since converted to a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Lawton Mills Historic District in Plainfield, Connecticut encompasses a well-preserved early-20th-century mill village. The central focus of the district is the large brick mill complex to the south of Railroad Avenue on the banks of Horse Brook. This complex was started in 1905 by Harold Lawton, a superintendent at the Baltic Mill complex in Sprague, and doubled in size in 1911. The mill ownership developed the areas on either side of the mill complex with a substantial worker housing complex. The district includes more than 100 historically significant structures, most of which are worker house that has survived with generally only modest alterations. There are a few commercial buildings in the district, built to provide services to the works, and a community hall, which now serves as Plainfield&#39;s town hall.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Clinton Village Historic District in Clinton, Connecticut is a historic district that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1994. It is roughly linear and extends along East Main Street  from the Indian River in the west to Old Post Road  in the east. The district comprises 154 buildings, objects, sites, and structures that contribute to the historical and architectural significance of the area.</p><br>
<p>The district includes the Liberty Green Historic District, a park-like triangle between Liberty Street and East Main Street, which includes a park green and 18th-century houses.</p><br>
<h2>Historic buildings</h2><br>
<p>Some of the historic buildings and structures located in the district are:</p><br>
<p>Clinton Volunteer Fire Department (1931)</p><br>
<p>The Academy, now used by the Clinton Parks and Recreation Department (1801)</p><br>
<p>Town Hall</p><br>
<p>First Church of Christ (1837)</p><br>
<p>Abraham Pierson Monument</p><br>
<p>The Middle Haddam Historic District is a historic district in the town of East Hampton, Connecticut. It encompasses a small residential area, in which most of the housing stock was built between 1750 and the mid-19th century. Middle Haddam was an important port on the Connecticut River between about 1730 and 1880, acting as a shipment point for trade with the West Indies and the North American coast, and as the site of shipyards building ocean-going vessels. The most prominent building in the village is the Second Congregational Church, built in 1855 and given High Victorian styling in the 1870s.</p><br>
<p>Among others, the Princeton University and Yale Divinity School-educated Second Great Awakening evangelist James Brainerd Taylor (1801&ndash;1829) was born in Middle Haddams historic district. As a boy, Taylor attended the towns still-standing Christ Episcopal Church (est. 1786).</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Columbia Green Historic District is a historic district that includes the town green, Columbia Green, of the town of Columbia, Connecticut, United States. The district includes buildings around the green and extending northwest along Route 87. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Town Hall, the Congregational Church, a former chapel (now a gallery), the parsonage and the former house of Eleazor Wheelock (c. 1736) are located around the Green. A new Victorian Revival gazebo is located in the center of the Green. Near the intersection of Route 66 and Route 87 is the town historical marker and a World War I memorial. This intersection is dominated visually by the modern St. Columbia Catholic Church (1953), a brick building with a tall spire.</p><br>
<p>Around the green are various civic and religious institutions of the town of Columbia, as well as residences dating from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Some of the more notable buildings in the area are the Eleazor Wheelock House, the Indian Charity School, the Congregational Church, and the Landmark Inn. The Landmark Inn is where General Rochambeau&#39;s officers were accommodated as they scouted the route to be taken by the French troops in their famous march from Newport, Rhode Island, to Yorktown, Virginia, during the Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>Gurleyville Historic District is a historic district located in the town of Mansfield, Connecticut, in Tolland County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The district represents a small rural village that grew up along the Fenton River at the intersection of two main roads. Industrial features in the historic district include a grist mill and dam on the river that were constructed beginning in 1749 and modified in later years, foundations and other ruins of a small 19th-century textile mill known as Royce Silk Mill, and the foundation of a saw mill dating from 1724. There are roughly one dozen historic homes, as well as several buildings built for commercial purposes in the 19th century that are now used as residences. Meadowland surrounding the village is included in the district to preserve the village in relation to its historical agricultural setting.</p><br>
<p>Connecticut Governor Wilbur Cross was a native of Gurleyville.</p><br>
<p>The South Coventry Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic village center of South Coventry in the town of Coventry, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It includes the Capron-Phillips House, which is separately NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<p>In the 19th century, there was a small industrial center including mills powered by the water from Coventry Lake Brook as it flowed towards the Willimantic River. South Coventry also includes several Victorian houses, a museum, the main branch of the public library, and the Bidwell Tavern, a bar/restaurant established in 1822. A few doors down is the W.L Wellwood General Store, under new ownership, has been renamed "Coventry Arts and Antiques". The general store was originally built in 1787 making it one of, if not the oldest General Store in America (a past owner claimed to have not found an older store). In all, the area has 178 historical buildings over 2,500 acre on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Branford Point Historic District is a historic district in Branford, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It includes much of the Branford Point neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Branford Point is generally considered to be the area along the west side of the Branford Harbor to the Amtrak railroad tracks. It is bounded on the west by the Short Beach neighborhood, on the north by Branford Center, and on the east by the Branford River. Harbor Street, Maple Avenue, and Stannard Avenue are the main thoroughfares of the neighborhood. In the 2000 Census, Branford Point was included by the USA Census Bureau in the Branford Center census-designated place.</p><br>
<p>At the time of NRHP listing in 1988, there were 207 buildings in the district, of which 158 were buildings that were deemed to contribute to the historic character of the district. The district is notable for a concentration of well-preserved residential architecture built between the mid-18th century and the Second World War.</p><br>
<p>The Howard Avenue Historic District is a 32 acre historic district in The Hill neighborhood of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. In 1985, it included 151 buildings deemed to contribute to the historic character of the area. The district includes properties fronting Howard Avenue from Minor Street  to Fifth Street . The portion from Lambertion Street to Fifth Street is also in City Point . It is a well-preserved array of late-19th to early 20th-century vernacular architecture showcasing the historical development of Howard Avenue as a middle class residential thoroughfare.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination asserted that the district "is architecturally significant for the quality and variety of its building stock, which forms the most intact and well-preserved array of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century vernacular architecture currently standing in the southwestern part of New Haven."</p><br>
<p>A Gothic-/Stick- style house at 622 Howard Avenue and some other structures are individually significant.</p><br>
<p>The South Britain Historic District in Southbury, Connecticut, United States, is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It represents the central portion of South Britain, an unincorporated village. The district is bordered by the Pomperaug River on the west. Water-powered mills, supplied by water from a South Britain Water Power Company reservoir, were the impetus for early development.</p><br>
<p>The village rivalled nearby Southbury Center. It was seat of Southbury, Connecticut town government until 1964.</p><br>
<p>In 1987, the district included 46 contributing structures and 22 non-contributing ones.</p><br>
<p>Contributing properties in the district include:</p><br>
<p>B.C. Bradley House, 497 South Britain Road, from 1802 or earlier by assessor records, with cottage and shed of similar age</p><br>
<p>H. Curtis House, 584-586 South Britain Road, of Colonial era, probably the oldest house in the district.</p><br>
<p>Miss H. E. and S. E. Canfield House, 524 South Britain Road, a Georgian style twin-chimney central-hall house "with Adamesque detail in its portico and cornice" from 1802 or earlier (see accompanying photo 2)</p><br>
<p>George Smith House, 605 South Britain Road, a Greek Revival house, c. 1835, with cabin and garage from mid 1900s</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Downs House, 657 South Britain Road, a brick Greek Revival with marble dressing, from 1770 by assessor records</p><br>
<p>Mrs. B. Chatfield House, 24 Hawkins Road, a brick Greek Revival, from 1850 (see photo 12)</p><br>
<p>Congregational Church, 683 South Britain Road, from 1825. Federal style with later Gothic window. (See photo 15)</p><br>
<p>Methodist Church, "an austere example of the Greek Revival style", from 1832, in deteriorated condition in 1986. (See photos 15 and 18)</p><br>
<p>Town Hall, an 1873-built Italianate style building (see photo 10)</p><br>
<p>Also included in the district is a steel-span bridge from 1939.</p><br>
<p>The Stony Creek–Thimble Islands Historic District is a historic district in Branford, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The 1,400 acre area of the district includes part of the Stony Creek mainland area of Branford, along Thimble Islands Rd. between Rt. 146 and Long Island Sound, and includes all of the Thimble Islands. This area includes a remarkable concentration of Stick style residences, as well as a significant collection of historic island resort properties on the Thimble Islands. The village of Stony Creek was developed in the late 19th century as a summer resort area, and is also notable for the presence of several former granite quarries and their associated worker housing.</p><br>
<p>It includes the Stick Style House at Stony Creek at 34 Prospect Hill, which is separately listed on the National Register. The house, which was built in 1878, was designed by Henry Austin.</p><br>
<p>East Windsor Hill Historic District is a historic district located in the northwestern corner of the town of South Windsor, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The East Windsor Hill area was settled in 1638 by families from Windsor, just across the Connecticut River to the west. The two communities were joined by the first ferry service to span that river, established in 1604 by John Bissell. The eastern end of the ferry was located at the western end of Ferry Lane, a short way south of the mouth of the Scantic River, and includes a surviving ferry tavern house dating to about 1750. Mainly agricultural in character, the village received a boost in the 1830s, when the theologically conservative Theological Institute of Connecticut was established here. Although none of its academic buildings survive, homes of people associated with the institution do.</p><br>
<p>The architecture of the East Windsor Hill village is diverse, representing over 150 years of largely vernacular domestic architecture. Several houses were built in the high Federal style, typically for merchants who were dealing in the area&#39;s agricultural products. A number of locally well-known builders constructed houses in the village, and there are several fine instances of the elaborate carved doorway surrounds for which the Connecticut River valley is well known. Probably the finest example of Greek Revival architecture in the district is the 1835 high-style home of Bennett Tyler, the first president of the Theological Institute.</p><br>
<p>The Glastonbury-Rocky Hill Ferry Historic District is a historic district in Glastonbury and Rocky Hill, Connecticut, encompassing a landscape with more than 300 years of colonial and post-colonial history. It includes the ferry landings and water traversed by the Rocky Hill – Glastonbury Ferry, one of the longest-running ferry services the nation, and the surrounding farmscapes and ferry landing village. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The towns of Rocky Hill and Glastonbury were originally settled in the mid-17th century as part of Wethersfield, from which they were separated in 1843 and 1693 respectively. Although they followed somewhat different paths of development, the ferry, established in 1655, has been a continuing presence joining the landing areas on either side of the Connecticut River.</p><br>
<p>The area of South Glastonbury that surrounds the eastern ferry landing has a long history of agricultural use. The broad meadows in the Connecticut River flood plain were used agriculturally by Native American prior to the arrival of English colonists, and were surveyed and subdivided by Wethersfield residents in the 1640s. Houses were built just above the flood plain on what is now Tryon Street. The oldest house in the district, the c. 1700 Thomas Treat house, is located on Tryon Street, as are several other early 18th-century houses. Later development in the 18th and 19th centuries added farm buildings and ferry-related infrastructure to the Glastonbury side of the district. Landowners in this area retained and maintained family and business connections with those across the river.</p><br>
<p>Rocky Hill remained part of Wethersfield much longer, and the Rocky Hill Landing area became its principal port area after a major flood in 1700 wiped out Wethersfield&#39;s old port area. The landscape on the west side of the river is characterized by a narrow flood plain, most of which was held in common by the town and has never been significantly developed. A steep bluff separates the landing itself from the main town economic center, and shaped its development in the 18th and early 19th century as a port and shipbuilding center. The Connecticut Valley Railroad was built through the landing area in 1871, providing transport to market for goods produced in South Glastonbury.</p><br>
<p>The Hazardville Historic District in the Hazardville section of Enfield, Connecticut dates from 1835. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The historic district encompasses a section of Hazard Avenue (Connecticut Route 190 and adjacent roads, as well as a now-parklike section of the banks of the Scantic River, where the operations of the Hazard Powder Company were located. The district is dominated by four public buildings constructed of brick with brownstone trim: a public school, the Hazardville Institute, the former St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church, now incorporated as Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, and the Hazardville United Methodist Church. The school and the institute are both of Italian Renaissance Revival design and were built in 1864 and 1869, respectively. The Episcopal church is a Gothic Revival structure built in 1863. The Methodist church, built in 1872, is in the Romanesque Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The public school is now used as a day care center. A former horse barn of the Hazard Powder Company, located at 32 South Maple Avenue, was turned into a square dancing hall in 1959 and is now used as a venue for special events. The foundations of 21 buildings of the original gunpowder factory complex (originally 200 buildings) can still be found near the Scantic River within Scantic River State Park.</p><br>
<p>The Hazardville Institute building, at the corner of Hazard and Maple avenues, was used for many years as a public hall and community center. It was abandoned in the 1970s and was saved from demolition when it was leased to the Hazardville Institute Conservancy. The building is currently undergoing renovation. When renovation is complete, there are plans for the building to include an exhibit about the history of the Hazard Powder Company.</p><br>
<h2>Partial building listing</h2><br>
<p>Other significant contributing properties in the district include:</p><br>
<p>7 Cooper Street, from 1850</p><br>
<p>9 Cooper Street, from 1850</p><br>
<p>269-271 Hazard Street, Greek Revival from 1840, with additional Greek Revival wing added later</p><br>
<p>273-275 Hazard Street, vernacular with Greek Revival elements, from 1845</p><br>
<p>325 Hazard Street, 1850, Greek Revival and Italianate</p><br>
<p>329 Hazard Street, 1865, Italianate and Second Empire</p><br>
<p>353-355 Hazard Street, 1850, Greek Revival</p><br>
<p>Town Hall, 359 Hazard Avenue, Renaissance Revival (but tower and pavilion replaced by an addition in the 20th century)</p><br>
<p>Old Methodist Church, 292-294-296-298 Hazard Avenue, c. 1830-1850, was prior Methodist church (see accompanying photo #9)</p><br>
<p>358 Hazard Avenue, 1850, Greek Revival</p><br>
<p>Cedar Street Cemetery (see accompanying photo #8)</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church (see accompanying photo #11)</p><br>
<p>Superintendent&#39;s House (see accompanying photo #15)</p><br>
<p>Queen Anne house on School Street (see accompanying photo #17)</p><br>
<p>Worker&#39;s house on Cedar Street (see accompanying photo #19)</p><br>
<p>Cottage with wave molding (bargeboards) on South Maple Street (see accompanying photo #21)</p><br>
<p>The Simsbury Center Historic District is a 75 acre historic district located in the town center area of Simsbury, Connecticut. It encompasses seven blocks of Hopmeadow Street, as well as the cluster of commercial, civic, and residential buildings along Railroad, Station, and Wilcox Streets, and Phelps Lane. Although its oldest element is the cemetery , most of its buildings were built in the late 19th and early 20th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Simsbury, originally the location of a Native American settlement called Massaco, was acquired by English colonists in the 1650s, and settled beginning in the 1660s. Originally part of Windsor, it was formally incorporated by the Connecticut Colony in 1670. Hopmeadow Street (now signed United States Route 202) developed as the major north-south route on the west side of the Farmington River, and the town center grew near an early ferry crossing. The majority of the district&#39;s surviving 18th and early 19th-century buildings are houses, most of which have been adapted for commercial use. The district derives its character from a larger number of late 19th and 20th-century buildings, general of a civic or commercial nature. Prominent examples include Eno Memorial Hall and the Simsbury Bank and Trust Company Building; the latter, built in 1917, is one of three buildings in the district to serve as town hall. Both were designed by Smith & Bassette, a prominent Hartford architectural firm.</p><br>
<p>The district is essentially linear in nature, extending along Hopmeadow Street between West Street and Massaco Street. It extends eastward in the central section, to include development between Hopmeadow Street and the railroad, including the c. 1875 Simsbury Railroad Depot. The northern end of the district is anchored by the Horace Belden School and Central Grammar School complex, which now includes the town offices.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing buildings</h2><br>
<p>Simsbury Free Library, 1887, 749 Hopmeadow Street (see #1 in photos accompanying NRHP nomination)</p><br>
<p>Eno Memorial Hall, 1932, 754 Hopmeadow Street, Colonial Revival architecture</p><br>
<p>Pettibone House, c. 1790, 741 Hopmeadow Street, a five bay central-chimney house modified later to Colonial Revival style</p><br>
<p>First Church of Christ, 689 Hopmeadow Street</p><br>
<p>750-760 Hopmeadow Street (the Simsbury Bank and Trust Company Building)</p><br>
<p>Simsbury Center Cemetery, 755 Hopmeadow Street</p><br>
<p>783-835 Hopmeadow Street</p><br>
<p>Methodist Episcopal Church, 799 Hopmeadow Street</p><br>
<p>Massacoh Plantation, 800 Hopmeadow Street</p><br>
<p>Titus Barber House, 920 Hopmeadow Street</p><br>
<p>Horace Belden School / Simsbury Town Office Building, 933 Hopmeadow Street</p><br>
<p>Bronze plaque at Pent Road</p><br>
<p>St. Mary&#39;s Church and Rectory, 944 and 940 Hopmeadow Street</p><br>
<p>The Simsbury Railroad Depot, Railroad and Station Streets</p><br>
<p>The South Glastonbury Historic District is a historic district in Glastonbury, Connecticut. It encompasses the historic village center of South Glastonbury, which was first settled in the 17th century. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and enlarged in 2009 to include properties further along Main Street as far as Chestnut Hill Road.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The river meadows of South Glastonbury were used as farmland by the proprietors of Wethersfield, one of Connecticuts oldest colonial settlements, during the 17th century. By late in that century there was enough permanent settlement that Glastonbury was incorporated as a separate town in 1693. The Rocky Hill–Glastonbury ferry was at the time the only river crossing between the two communities, and High Street, extending east from the ferry, is the oldest road in Glastonbury. South Glastonbury developed as the towns first village, spurred in part by the development of grist and saw mills on Roaring Brook to the east. These were augmented by textile mills and other industry, prompting further growth in the 19th century. By the early 20th century these industries had closed or were in decline.</p><br>
<p>The village center is a triangle made up of all or part of Main, High, and Water Streets, and includes 83 contributing resources, including the public library, located in a former Methodist Church built in 1828, a c. 1740 house at 120 High Street, and the c. 1878 Carpenter Gothic St. Augustine&#39;s Church. The oldest surviving building is the c. 1731 Tryon House at 879 Main Street. One building was previously listed on the National Register: the Welles-Shipman-Ward House, a fine Georgian house built about 1755.</p><br>
<p>Stafford Hollow, also known as Stafford, Stafford Village, or Furnace Hollow, is a village in the town of Stafford, in Tolland County, Connecticut, located at the junction of Route 19 and Route 319. Stafford Hollow was the town center of Stafford during the 18th and 19th centuries, before the growth of the village of Stafford Springs.</p><br>
<p>A 0.26 square miles area of the village has been designated a historic district, the Stafford Hollow Historic District, which includes Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, and Late Victorian architecture. Twentieth-century houses on the roads radiating away from the village center are not included in the historic district.</p><br>
<p>As early as 1779, Stafford Hollow was the site of a blast furnace, known as Phelps blast furnace, that processed bog iron ores. The Phelps furnace is reputed to have produced cannon and cannonballs, kettles, and pots for use by the Continental Army. It operated until 1840, when the local ore supply had been used up.</p><br>
<p>Stafford Hollow Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It includes the Valley Cotton Mill site, now ruins, which was destroyed in 1900.</p><br>
<p>The Tariffville Historic District is a 93 acre historic district in the town of Simsbury, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. There are several houses in the district of Gothic Revival style, probably following designs from pattern books of architect Andrew Jackson Downing. The Trinity Episcopal Church is the only building in the district designed by an architect of national standing, namely Henry C. Dudley. Many of the homes in the area were built by the Tariff Manufacturing Company, which opened a carpet mill along the Farmington River, and needed housing for workers.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is "significant architecturally because it retains the mill housing and street layout of an early 19th-century village as well as the Greek Revival and Gothic Revival structures of later 19th-century development. The commercial blocks, religious structures, and publicly owned buildings, together with the many 19th-century houses and their outbuildings, tell the story of the community&#39;s development into the 20th century with integrity and few intrusions." Its boundaries are "drawn to encompass the concentration of historic and architectural resources" of the historic village area. The historic district excludes newer development around West Point Terrace and Hayes Road, as well as properties along White Water Turn, Wooster Road, and Main Street Extension.</p><br>
<p>Significant contributing properties include:</p><br>
<p>Trinity Church (see #10 of NRHP application&#39;s accompanying photographs).</p><br>
<p>William Ketchin Tobacco Company warehouse, 7 Church Street, brownstone "with low towers and castellated roof lines, it has now been dramatically altered by adding a hipped roof of great volume supported by new heavy roof brackets in a modern salute to the Italianate style" (see photo #14)</p><br>
<p>8-4 Elm Street, worker housing (photo #1)</p><br>
<p>23-29 Red Hill Road, worker housing (photo #2)</p><br>
<p>39 Tunxis Road, small Greek Revival (photo #3)</p><br>
<p>19 Main Street (see photo #4)</p><br>
<p>40 Winthrop Street (see photo #5)</p><br>
<p>2 Tunxis Road (see photos #6 and #7)</p><br>
<p>28 Main Street (see photo #8)</p><br>
<p>32 Main Street (see photo #9)</p><br>
<p>Saint Bernard&#39;s Church (see photo #12)</p><br>
<p>37 Elm Street (see photo #13)</p><br>
<p>10 Center Street (see photo #15)</p><br>
<p>The West Granby Historic District is a historic district in Granby, Connecticut. It encompasses the historic village of West Granby, which extends along Simsbury Road between Firetown Road and Hartland Road. Although this area was settled in the 18th century, and has a few surviving buildings from that time, its most significant period of development was in the 19th century, when industry came to play a role in the area. Most of the district&#39;s 113 buildings primary buildings are residential, although there are many agricultural outbuildings and garages. The houses are typically in simple vernacular interpretations of architectural styles popular during their construction, and represent a cross section of 19th-century and early 20th-century architecture.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Brookfield Center Historic District in Brookfield, Connecticut is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is located in the vicinity of the junction of Route 133 and Route 25. The district represents the original settlement of the town of Brookfield and contains 67 residential, religious, and municipal buildings over a 43 acre area representing a wide range of architectural styles from the 18th to 20th centuries including Bungalow/Craftsman, Greek Revival, and Queen Anne style architecture. The district includes the old town hall, congregational church, Center Elementary School, the former general store , St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church, and the surrounding residential neighborhood. The district is architecturally significant as an accurate representation of the historical development of the original settlement of the Town of Brookfield as the buildings are well-preserved from the time they were built with minimal alterations and intrusions, including their spatial relationships to one another.</p><br>
<p>Contributing properties in the district include:</p><br>
<p>150 Whisconier Road, c. 1700, a saltbox</p><br>
<p>140 Whisconier Road, a vernacular building with selected Federal style details, has semi-elliptical attic windows</p><br>
<p>Congregational Church, an 1854 Greek Revival church designed by Beckwith Nash</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s School (3 Longmeadow Hill Road), a building in the Italianate style</p><br>
<p>Cannondale Historic District is a historic district in the Cannondale section in the north-central area of the town of Wilton, Connecticut. The district includes 58 contributing buildings, one other contributing structure, one contributing site, and 3 contributing objects, over a 202 acre. About half of the buildings are along Danbury Road  and most of the rest are close to the Cannondale train station .</p><br>
<p>The district</p><br>
<p>is significant because it embodies the distinctive architectural and cultural-landscape characteristics of a small commercial center as well as an agricultural community from the early national period through the early 20th century....The historic uses of the properties in the district include virtually the full array of human activity in this region&mdash;farming, residential, religious, educational, community groups (the Grange), small-scale manufacturing, transportation, and even government (the building that housed the first Cannondale Post Office). The close physical relationship among all these uses, as well as the informal character of the commercial enterprises before the rise of more aggressive techniques to attract consumers, capture some of the texture of life as lived by prior generations.The district is also significant for its collection of architecture and for its historic significance.</p><br>
<p>The district has a number of buildings in Greek Revival style, as well as Victorian era buildings and Colonial Revival buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Cannon Crossing</h2><br>
<p>Part of the historic district is made up of restored, 19th-century buildings in the 8 acre"Cannon Crossing" shopping development on the north side of Cannon Road and across the railroad tracks from the Cannondale train station. The development was created by actress June Havoc, who sold the property in 1989. At least four contributing objects in the historic district are described in the NRHP nomination, including the 1872 Schoolhouse, which Havoc had moved to its present site in the late 1970s (from its original site at the corner of Olmstead Hill and Danbury Roads).</p><br>
<h2>Significant properties</h2><br>
<p>Properties in the district include the following (unless otherwise noted, quotations are from the 1992 registration form filed with the National Register of Historic Places):</p><br>
<h3>On Cannon Road</h3><br>
<p>Nelson S. Hurlbutt House - 1922 - 8 Cannon Road - a 2½-story, Colonial Revival gambrel-roofed house with wood shingles, a three-bay facade and Tuscan-columned portico framing its central entry</p><br>
<p>Godfrey Academy - 1849 - 20 Cannon Road - moved in 1961 to its present location from Danbury Road.</p><br>
<p>Cannondale Station - 1892 - 22 Cannon Road - Victorian-era, one-story structure with a gable roof and wide, overhanging eaves supported by chamfered brackets and bargeboard with a geometric motif and a stickwork peak ornament.</p><br>
<p>Charles Gregory Store and Post Office - c. 1850 - 24 Cannon Road - 2½ stories, with a gable roof, clapboard, a "plain frieze and molded cornice with partial return", a rear wing added about 1895</p><br>
<p>A small, two-story, clapboard house behind Charles Gregory Store, built about 1900, with a gable roof.</p><br>
<p>Cannon Grange Hall - 1899 - 25 Cannon Road - Victorian, 1½-story structure with a "gable roof, clapboard with scalloped shingles in gable ends, stickwork peak ornament".</p><br>
<p>Charles Gregory Dam - 30 Cannon Road - c. 1910 - "coursed rubble spillway and abutments; wheel-pit with draft tube for turbine-based power system incorporated into west abutment. Atop west abutment is former Charles Gregory gristmill that was extensively remodeled in the late 1920s and late 1970s."</p><br>
<p>Three contributing objects located at entrance to Cannon Crossing shopping area at 30 Cannon Road:</p><br>
<p>a "c.1900 turbine that was removed from Gregory Grist Mill wheelpit"</p><br>
<p>"two c. 1925 reservoir-head gasoline pumps"</p><br>
<p>Gregory Gristmill Tenant House - c. 1900 - 32 Cannon Road - two stories, with a "gable roof, clapboard with shingled gable ends".</p><br>
<p>B. F. Brown Boarding School - 1857 - 33 Cannon Road - Greek Revival entry, three stories, "gable roof, clapboard, high brick basement with brownstone window lintels, pilaster-and-lintel entry with sidelights and transom"</p><br>
<p>A barn behind the B. F. Brown Boarding School</p><br>
<p>Cannondale School - 1872 - 34 Cannon Road - one-story, "gable roof, clapboard, hip-roofed entry shelter on large brackets, pedimented window surrounds, ogee-roofed cupola with round-arched openings&quot the building was moved to its present location in 1979 from the corner of Olmstead Hill and Danbury roads.</p><br>
<p>Helen Godfrey House - c. 1900 - 37 Cannon Road - Victorian era, 2½-story house with a "gable roof, wood shingle; porch (turned posts jigsawn brackets, molded rail on turned balusters) wraps around right side to meet 2-story cross-gabled ell".</p><br>
<p>Lockwood Academy - 1851 - 43 Cannon Road, also known as 42 Cannon Road - Built in a "vernacular" style "with greek Revival influence, 2½ stories, gable roof, clapboard, pilaster-and-linetl entry, simple steeped entablature with partial return"</p><br>
<p>Barn to the rear of the Lockwood Academy building</p><br>
<p>Marjorie W. Hands House - 1939 - 63 Cannon Road - Southern Colonial Revival - 2½ stories, "gable roof, clapboard with flush-boarded facade, central chimney, two-story inset gallery with plain square posts"</p><br>
<p>Cottage - c. 1940 - 68 Cannon Road - 1½ stories, gable roof, wood shingles</p><br>
<p>Jesse Gregory House - c. 1800 - 109 Cannon Road - Federal/Colonial Revival with 20th-century additions and alterations, 2½ stories, gable roof, clapboard, "original portion is 5-bay, central-hall plan with remnants of pilaster-and-lintel entry treatment; Tuscan-columned porches, windows and surrounds, entablature, and extensions to either side represent 20th-century alterations".</p><br>
<h3>On Danbury Road</h3><br>
<p>David Henry Miller III House - 1907 - 426 Danbury Road - 2½ stories, hip roof, clapboard, "Tuscan-columned porch wraps around both sides and on south side meets porte-cochere with shallow pediments, hip-roofed dormers"</p><br>
<p>Barn to rear of David Henry Miller III House</p><br>
<p>Hiram and Mary Cannon Jones House - c.1835 - 436 Danbury Road - Greek Revival, 2½ stories, gable roof, clapboard, "Ionic portico with full entablature, pilaster-and-lintel entry with leaded sidelights and transom, addition to right rear sheltered by owpen porch with Doric columns".</p><br>
<p>Barn to rear of Hiram and Mary Cannon Jones House</p><br>
<p>Samuel Marvin House - c. 1810 - 444 Danbury Road - Federal style, 2½ stories, gable roof, wood shingles, "3-bay, four-room plan with interior chimney, pilaster-and-lintel entry with sidelights and transom, oval gable-end windows with radial muntins; 2-story kitchen wing (1899) and recent rear addition."</p><br>
<p>Barn to rear of Samuel Marvin House</p><br>
<p>George Godfrey House - c. 1848/c. 1870 - 454 Danbury Road - gable roof, clapboard; "original part now right-side ell, with 3-bay facade and simple pilaster-and-lintel entry; later portion is 2-bay; open porch with chamfered posts added when house was expanded".</p><br>
<p>John Hurlbutt House - c. 1840 - 462 Danbury Road - Greek Revival, 2½ stories, gable roof, clapboard, "pilaster-and-lintel entry, reeded corner boards, pedimented gable-end with flush-boarding; c. 1900 additions to right and rear, recent wing to left".</p><br>
<p>Zion Hill Methodist Episcopal Church - 1844 - 470 Danbury Road - Greek Revival, single, high story, "pilastered facade with recessed entry, pilaster-and-lintel entry treatment, pilastered belfry topped by smaller stage with squat corner towers; Fellowship Hall, to southeast, is noncontributing".</p><br>
<p>Zion Hill Cemetery adjacent, c.1840, a cemetery "arranged as parallel rows of east-facing burials; predominantly mid-19th-century white-marble markers"</p><br>
<p>Lewis Hurlbutt House - 1909 - 475 Danbury Road - Colonial Revival-style, 2½-story house with a gable roof, wood shingles, "wraparound porch with fluted Doric columns, Palladian window in front gable end, gable-roofed dormers"</p><br>
<p>A carriage barn behind the Lewis Hurlbutt House also contributed to the case for historic registration</p><br>
<p>Noah Partrick House - 1837 - 481 Danbury Road - 2½ stories, gable roof, clapboard sides, "3-bay facade with central entry, simply molded cornice with partial return, recent 1-story wing".</p><br>
<p>Charles Scribner House, c.1830 Greek Revival house with c.1910 Colonial Revival porch with Tuscan columns.</p><br>
<p>"center-chimney house" - c. 1795 - two stories, gable roof, clapboard siding, "3-bay facade with plain entry, flush eaves, small shed addition to rear".</p><br>
<p>William Nichols House - c. 1800/c. 1840 - 493 Danbury Road - Greek Revival, 2½ story, gable-roofed, clapboard-sided house, "originally center-chimney dwelling reworked in Greek Revival Style c. 1840 by addition of corner pilasters, entablature, pedimented gable ends, and pilaster-and-lintel entry with sidelights and transom"</p><br>
<p>The barn on the property of the William Nichols House also contributed to the case for registering the historical district.</p><br>
<p>Thaddeus Quick House - c. 1845 - 496 Danbury Road - Greek Revival house with late-19th-century alterations, 2½ stories, gable roof, clapboard sides; "original features include paneled corner pilasters, entablature with partial return, and pilaster-and-lintel entry with sidelights; Victorian features include 1-story bay windows on front and side; entry shelter with faux Doric columns probably Colonial Revival feature".</p><br>
<p>The barn just to the north of the Thaddeus Quick House also contributed to the case for registering the historical district.</p><br>
<p>George Nichols House - c. 1840/c. 1870 - 503 Danbury Road - 2½ stories, gable roof, vinyl siding; "original portion is 5-bay with center entry, with cross-bable wing added c. 1870; also added at that time were porch with square chamfered posts and round-arched attic lights; new chimney; garage is noncontributing".</p><br>
<p>Azor Belden House - c. 1788 - 539 Danbury Road - An older origin for this building is asserted by local historian Robert H. Russell, who wrote that in 1727, William Belden, then 56 years old, and his large family moved to Wilton from Deerfield, Massachusetts and bought this house from Obadiah Wood. The house was later greatly expanded and modified, according to Russell, into the "stately home".</p><br>
<h3>On Olmstead Hill Road</h3><br>
<p>Gersham and Mary Ann Partrick House - c. 1875 - Victorian Vernacular-style, two-story, gable-roofed, clapboard-sided house; "original (front) portion is simple two-bay dwelling with full porch featuring heavy turned posts and small pediment over entry bay; cross-gable addition to rear left, and shed addition to rear."</p><br>
<p>The barn on the property of the Gersham and Mary Ann Partrick House also contributed to the historic-preservation registration.</p><br>
<p>Charles Gregory Gristmill, non-contributing as it was "coverted into residence in late 1920s and extensively remodeled in late 1970s." (see also "Charles Gregory gristmill dam" at 30 Cannon Road, above)</p><br>
<h3>On Seeley Road</h3><br>
<p>vernacular house - 25 Seeley Road - c. 1920 - 1½ stories, wood shingle</p><br>
<p>Polly and William Wakeman House - c. 1840/1907+ - 36 Seeley Road - Federal/Colonial Revival - 2½ stories, gable roof, clapboard; "nucleus is a 3-bay Federal house that retains its plan, central chimney and details such as gable-end Palladian window; most of the present structure consists of wings added between 1907 and 1940"</p><br>
<p>The barn on the property of the Polly and William Wakeman House also contributed to the historic-preservation registration</p><br>
<p>Hannah Lounsbury House - c. 1852 - 45 Seeley Road - vernacular/Colonial Revival, 1½ story structure with a gable roof, clapboard siding, "originally plain, 3-bay, central-hall-plan house; 2-bay west wing and Colonial Revival entry treatment added post-1950"</p><br>
<p>The barn on the property is also contributing</p><br>
<p>c. 1850/1938 house - 67 Seeley Road -"vernacular/Colonial Revival, 2½ stories, gable roof, clapboard, 3-bay facade modified in 1938 with addition of Colonial Revival entry treatment and two prominent wall dormers; additions to right and rear"</p><br>
<p>Hickock House - c. 1810/1915+ - 105 Seeley Road - "vernacular/Colonial Revival, 2½ stories, gable roof, wood shingle; originally 5-bay center-chimney dwelling with molded cornice (partial return); 20th-century wings added to north and west sides; barn is also contributing"</p><br>
<p>The Fairfield Historic District in Fairfield, Connecticut is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It includes 75 contributing buildings. The district encompasses the old town center of Fairfield, roughly along Old Post Road between USA Route 1 and Turney Road. The area contains Fairfield&#39;s town hall, public library, and houses dating from the late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The district, along with Greenfield Hill Historic District and Southport Historic District, is monitored by the Historic District Commission of Fairfield.</p><br>
<p>The most significant elements of the historic district include:</p><br>
<p>the town green</p><br>
<p>the town hall</p><br>
<p>the Rising Sun Tavern, No. 1 Town Hall Green, built 1783</p><br>
<p>Silliman House, 543 Old Post Road, from 1791</p><br>
<p>the Fairfield Academy, now known as Old Academy, which was moved</p><br>
<p>249 Beach Road, which reportedly survived the British burning by a servant dowsing the flames (see photo page 15 of accompanying photos)</p><br>
<p>303 Beach Road,</p><br>
<p>349 Beach Road, a saltbox house from before 1750</p><br>
<p>Burr Mansion, 739 Old Post Road, and</p><br>
<p>952 Old Post Road.</p><br>
<p>The Georgetown Historic District is a historic district which covers the central portion the village of Georgetown, Connecticut. The district includes parts of Georgetown in the towns of Redding and Wilton and consists of the former Gilbert & Bennett manufacturing plant, institutional housing built for the plant workers, and other private homes.</p><br>
<p>In its 1986 National Register nomination, the district is described as " rare survival of rural industrial history".</p><br>
<p>The company began as a cottage industry weaving animal hair from cows and horses, started by Benjamin Gilbert. Water power was needed, and the enterprise used a former sawmill facility downriver from the later factory site. The company found success making sieves from animal hair. After much development and a fire, the company focused on wire products including woven wire cloth for meat safes, the first insect wire screening, and poultry netting.</p><br>
<p>The company is described as having been "uided by nineteenth-century paternalism and enlightened self-interest which carried over well into the twentieth century" for it having "shaped a community which today resembles the rural industrial village of nineteenth-century Utopian ideology." The district consists of properties that are roughly bounded by Route 7, Portland Avenue, Route 107, and the Norwalk River. It includes 120 contributing buildings and one other contributing site over a 125 acre area. Architectural styles in the historic district include Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, and Italianate.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1987. Fourteen properties in the Town of Wilton, on Church Street, West Church Street, and Redding Road, are also included in the town&#39;s Historic District #6, designated in 2007. Exterior alterations to these properties require approval by the Wilton Historic District and Historic Property Commission. Several of the 123 contributing resources originally included in the National Register historic district have been demolished as part of a Georgetown Redevelopment Project.</p><br>
<p>Since the Gilbert & Bennett property has gone idle, multiple developers have attempted to recreate the site as a mixed-use village combining residential and commercial buildings. In 2005, the USA Environmental Protection Agency awarded one proposal its National Award for Smart Growth Achievement.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, the USA Department of the Interior sought Congressional approval for the National Park Service to acquire space on the Gilbert & Bennett property for administration and operational support to the Weir Farm National Historic Site in Ridgefield. Under existing federal law at the time, the National Park Service was authorized to secure expansion space in Ridgefield and Wilton only.</p><br>
<p>The Greenfield Hill Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places  in 1971.</p><br>
<p>It includes 27 contributing buildings over 175 acre in the neighborhood of Greenfield Hill, Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>It includes 38 principal houses or structures and 20 secondary structures, and a windmill.</p><br>
<p>The district includes the Bronson Windmill, which is separately NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<p>The district, along with Southport Historic District and Fairfield Historic District is somewhat governed by Fairfield&#39;s Historic District Commission.</p><br>
<p>Significant properties in the district include:</p><br>
<p>Timothy Dwight Park, site of historic academy of Timothy Dwight IV</p><br>
<p>Old Cemetery on Bronson</p><br>
<p>1650 Meetinghouse Lane, originally a saltbox home from c. 1750 that was later remodeled extensively. Associated with Abraham Baldwin and with Joel Barlow</p><br>
<p>Old Cemetery, on Bronson Road</p><br>
<p>105 Meetinghouse Lane, owned by Zalmon Bradley</p><br>
<p>Greenfield Hill Congregational Church</p><br>
<p>"Old Salt Box at 1081 Hillside", a saltbox structure that was a shop, a home, and in which the academy was started</p><br>
<p>3244 Bronson Road</p><br>
<p>3171 Bronson Road, gambrel-roofed</p><br>
<p>2829 Bronson Road, which served during 1901-15 as clubhouse of Greenfield Hill Country Club, but which also is associated with agriculture shows, including one showing 52 oxen in 1906, that illustrated agricultural basis of the area</p><br>
<p>55 Meetinghouse Lane</p><br>
<p>3105 Bronson Road, the windmill</p><br>
<p>The Huntington Center Historic District is a historic district in the city of Shelton, Connecticut. The district encompasses the original colonial settlement of Shelton, which was first known as Huntington. It is a linear district about 0.75 mi in length, centered on the Huntington Green and Cemetery, and extending north along Church Street and south along Huntington Street. The district is predominantly residential, although it has two churches. The green was laid out in 1717, and many of the district&#39;s historic buildings were built over the next 150 years.</p><br>
<p>Significant properties in the district include:</p><br>
<p>Huntington Green, 1717</p><br>
<p>Josiah Wheeler House</p><br>
<p>DeForest-Rudd House, c. 1770, Colonial</p><br>
<p>Huntington Congregational Church, c. 1890, Gothic Revival</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church, 1812, Federal</p><br>
<p>The Newtown Borough Historic District is a 100 acre historic district in the borough of Newtown within the town of Newtown in Fairfield County, Connecticut. There is a local historic district, and an overlapping district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The National Register district includes just a small part of the current borough, but about half of the original borough as it was first incorporated in 1824.</p><br>
<p>The local historic district was smaller, but the Ram&#39;s Pasture and another property were added in 2009. The district has a governance structure.</p><br>
<p>The district was designated as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1996. The district area has buildings dating back from 1780. The district includes the separately NRHP-listed Glover House and Caleb Baldwin Tavern.</p><br>
<p>In 1996, the district included 225 contributing buildings, 2 other contributing structures, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing objects.</p><br>
<p>Significant properties in the district include:</p><br>
<p>Glover House</p><br>
<p>Caleb Baldwin Tavern: The Baldwin Tavern is along the march route taken by French commander Rochambeaus troops in 1781 en route to Yorktown, Virginia and/or in 1782 during their return. It was built c. 1763 and is a two-and-a-half-story house. It housed some of the armys officers in June 1781, en route to the Siege of Yorktown. It also an example of traditional 18th-century New England architecture, and retains some details from that time period.</p><br>
<p>17 Main Street, home of Arthur J. Smith, publisher of the Newtown Bee newspaper which began in 1877 (see accompanying photo #9)</p><br>
<p>Liberty Pole/Flagpole</p><br>
<p>Soldiers and Sailors Monument</p><br>
<p>Edmond Town Hall</p><br>
<p>Matthew Curtiss House, 44 Main Street, a museum of the Newtown Historical Society (see photo #1, left)</p><br>
<p>Gen. Daniel Baldwin House, 38 Main Street, a formal Georgian style building that contrasts to most of the other architecture (see photo #4)</p><br>
<p>Cyrenius H. Booth Library</p><br>
<p>In 2003, citizen protests and a petition of 700 residents led to re-siting of a planned communications tower so that it would not be visible from the historic district.</p><br>
<p>The Ridgefield Center Historic District is part of the town of Ridgefield, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The district is an irregularly shaped area that is roughly bounded by Pound St., Fairview Ave., Prospect, Ridge, and Whipstick Rds. In 1984 it included 241 contributing buildings and one other contributing structure, over a 395 acre area.</p><br>
<p>Two properties, the Phineas Chapman Lounsbury House (now a community center) and the Keeler Tavern (purchased and renovated by architect Cass Gilbert and now a museum), were already separately listed in the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Other significant properties include:</p><br>
<p>the Reverend Thomas Hawley House, c.1715</p><br>
<p>the Nathan Scott House, at 5 Catoonah Street, which was moved there in 1922</p><br>
<p>the former Episcopal Rectory, from 1790, which was moved to 23 Catoonah Street</p><br>
<p>the Benedict House, c. 1790</p><br>
<p>E. P. Dutton House</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth W. Morris Memorial Building, which at the time of NRHP listing was home of the Ridgefield Library and Historical Association</p><br>
<p>Maynard House, at 2 Peaceable Street, a c.1900 Neo-Georgian building locally believed to be designed by McKim, Meade & White</p><br>
<p>14 Barry Avenue, c. 1740, a Colonial house with early 20th-century Colonial Revival additions</p><br>
<p>The Round Hill Historic District is a historic district in the town of Greenwich, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The district is an 8 acre area which, in 1996, included 7 buildings that contributed to the historic character of the district and one other contributing site.</p><br>
<p>It includes part of the modern-day Round Hill neighborhood of Greenwich, and is centered on the First Church of Round Hill, built in 1828 and extensively altered about a century later. The adjacent church parsonage, the Brown-Kenworthy House, is one of the oldest houses in the area, with a wing built c. 1728.</p><br>
<p>Other contributing properties in the district include:</p><br>
<p>Round Hill District School, 456 Round Hill Road, c. 1750/c.1850, converted to a Colonial Revival residence c.1925</p><br>
<p>5 John Street, Colonial Revival, 1867/1925</p><br>
<p>7 John Street, Colonial Revival cottage, 1925</p><br>
<p>Round Hill Cemetery, c. 1825</p><br>
<p>The Southport Historic District in the town of Fairfield, Connecticut is a 225 acre area historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It preserves a portion of the modern neighborhood and former borough of Southport, Connecticut. Since the British burnt almost all of Southport&#39;s structures in 1779, there is only one home built prior to that date, the Meeker House at 824 Harbor Road, which survives.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The area of the district is bounded on the north by the Metro-North railroad tracks, on the south by the Mill River and Southport Harbor, on the west by Old South Road, and on the east by Rose Hill Road. It includes additional properties on both sides of Old South Road and Rose Hill Road, but excludes the commercial and industrial properties along Pequot Avenue inside the so-defined area. This is about a quarter of the former borough area of Southport, which ran from Mill River to Sasco Creek, and from the Southport Harbor to Mill Hill.</p><br>
<p>A local commission enforces preservation rules in the district (and also in two other historic districts in the town of Fairfield). Alterations to properties in the district have to be approved. A case where a Greek Revival mansion owner placed a large sculpture on the grounds went all the way to the USA supreme court in 2007. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the commission, that the sculpture qualified as a structure and required commission approval. It was the Historic District Commission of Fairfield. More here. The 80 foot, six ton sculpture by German artist Anselm Kiefer, titled "Narrow as the Vessels", was donated to a museum, and the owner put even more striking (although lighter) sculptures on the lawn instead.</p><br>
<p>In 1970, the NRHP nomination for the district argued it was "significant because it has been the center of trade and commerce in Fairfield and because its history is typical of the development of commercial life in many New England ports in the fifty years following the revolutionary war. The architecture of the district consists primarily of buildings constructed after 1779 when the British virtually destroyed Fairfield. It is a valuable concentration of Greek Revival and Victorian structures which were for the most part the homes of substantial men whose wealth came from their involvement in commerce, banking, and shipping."</p><br>
<p>It includes more than 150 contributing buildings. The more significant ones include:</p><br>
<p>750 Harbour Road, the house of Oliver Perry, a significant figure (but not the more famous Oliver Hazard Perry), a Greek Revival house with a pediment above four Doric columns</p><br>
<p>780 Harbor Road, house of Walter Perry III, a Federal style house built in 1830</p><br>
<p>712 Harbor Road, a Greek Revival house with Corinthian columns</p><br>
<p>478 Harbor Road, built in 1831</p><br>
<p>72 Willow Street, childhood home of Joseph Sheffield, founder of the Rock Island Railroad</p><br>
<p>104 Old South Road, home of Paschal Sheffield, a privateer for Argentina during its war for independence from Spain</p><br>
<p>824 Harbor Road, Meeker House, built prior to 1766, only structure that is known to have survived the British burning of Southport in 1779</p><br>
<p>25 Westway Road, built in 1856, has gingerbread trim</p><br>
<p>95 Westway Road, built in 1840</p><br>
<p>564 Harbor Road, built in 1835 by a shipowner and captain, Charles C. Perry, built in a Greek Revival style which was later altered but then restored in 1926</p><br>
<p>"The Bulkeley Houses", at 14 Willow Street, 104 Main Street, 142 Main Street, 114 Westway Road, 892 Harbor Road</p><br>
<p>187 Westway Road, built as a saltbox for Dimon prior to 1818, since enlarged and altered. It has the "Dimon Oak", known to be at least 260 years old in 1970, which stood nearly 100 feet tall and measured 19.5 feet in circumference</p><br>
<p>95 Main Street, built c. 1827, which served as a school, a place of worship, and as a town hall. The building, now a residence, at some point after 1854 was moved closer to Main Street and was altered.</p><br>
<p>450 Harbor Road</p><br>
<p>the "Nichols Houses", at 155 Rose Hill Road, 494 Harbor Road, 534 Harbor Road</p><br>
<p>three Victorian era houses at 658 Pequot Road, 418 Harbor Road, 385 Harbor Road</p><br>
<p>798 Harbor Road, now a house, the main part of which was a store in the 1850s. In 1894 it was the "Bachelors Comfort, and Married Mens Relief" club, during World War I it was a British War Relief something, and later it was the first clbuhouse for the Pequot Yacht Club.</p><br>
<p>Tide Mill Building, at 95 Harbor Road</p><br>
<p>668-670 Harbor Road</p><br>
<p>62 Center Street, a Greek Revival house</p><br>
<p>Pequot Library, at 720 Pequot Avenue</p><br>
<h2>Harbor Road</h2><br>
<p>Harbor Road runs along the harbor and all of it is included in the district</p><br>
<h2>Pequot Road</h2><br>
<p>Part of Pequot Road is included in the district. Newer, commercial parts are not.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery: Other</h2><br>
<p>The Wilton Center Historic District in the town center area of Wilton, Connecticut, was established as a town historic district in 1970 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Wilton&#39;s town center was formed in 1726 when the first meetinghouse was built. That meetinghouse was replaced with a new building in 1738, and finally in 1790 by a third church, the current Congregational Church at 70 Ridgefield Road. That church is the oldest church building in Fairfield County and a central element of the historic district.</p><br>
<p>The historic district includes examples of Colonial Revival, Colonial, and Federal styles of architecture.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Gregory House, 11 Belden Hill Road, built c. 1775</p><br>
<p>Original Congregational Church Parsonage, 65 Ridgefield Road, built 1832</p><br>
<p>Old Town Hall, 69 Ridgefield Road, built 1832</p><br>
<p>Nathan Comstock House, 77 Ridgefield Road, built c. 1810</p><br>
<p>Winton House, 80 Ridgefield Road, built 1926</p><br>
<p>Halsey House, 98 Ridgefield Road, built 1934</p><br>
<p>Deodate Davenport House, 108 Ridgefield Road, built 1791</p><br>
<p>The district includes the Wilton Academy. The shape of the district is very irregular.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Torrington Historic District encompasses the historic central downtown area of Torrington, Connecticut. Centered on a crossing of the Naugatuck River, the 56 acre historic district is well-represented with architecture from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now downtown Torrington developed in the 18th century, as a major junction point of the north-south Waterbury Turnpike, connecting Waterbury in the south to Winchester in the north, with the Canton Turnpike, running east to Canton. These streets, now Main Street, South Main Street, and East Main Street, are still the major roads in the area. A mill was established on the Naugatuck River in 1813, and the area experienced more rapid growth after the railroad arrived in 1849. By 1880 the Central Square area was clearly established as the heart of the downtown area. The area declined economically in the 1920s, and the downtown area south of the river was subjected to urban renewal activities later in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is a roughly triangular area centered on the junction of Main Street and East Main Street just north of the Naugatuck River. It extends northward along those roads, to Alvord and Willow Streets, and extends south, across the river, to include Coe Memorial Park and a few adjacent buildings. It covers 56 acre, with 71 historically significant buildings. It includes what was originally the Conley Hotel in 1891, now the Yankee Pedlar, as well as the Warner Theatre and the Fyler-Hotchkiss Estate, the latter two of which are individually listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>The Flanders Historic District is a historic district that encompasses a small cluster of late-18th to early-19th century residential structures north of the center of Kent, Connecticut, which was the original heart of the community when it was first settled. It is centered at the junction of United States Route 7 with Cobble Road and Studio Hill Road. The area was supplanted by the current town center in the 1840s. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Kent was established in 1738, with the Connecticut Colony auctioning off land in this area late in that year. Settlers soon arrived, and the Flanders area became the town&#39;s main settlement. The oldest surviving house, that of John Beebe, Sr., was built in 1741. The area remained of civic importance until the 1840s, when a railroad stop was established further south. This resulted in the migration of economic and civic functions to that area, which is where the present town center is. Since then, the Flanders area has been a quiet rural residential village.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is centered at the junction of US 7 with Cobble Road and Studio Hill Road, and covers about 65 acre. It includes twelve major buildings, of which five are large Federal style houses, three are older colonial-era buildings, and two later Greek Revival structures. All of these building exhibit vernacular interpretations of those styles, with simplified decorative elements. Interior decorative elements also tend to be modest, with elaborate detailing often found only in the "best" parlor. The Federal period houses, for example, are built using traditional colonial forms, lacking period innovations such as hip roofs, but have Federal style pilasters at the corners, and may including some carved woodwork in the cornice.</p><br>
<p>The Hotchkissville Historic District is a historic district in the town of Hotchkissville, Connecticut adjacent to Woodbury, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Woodbury was established in the late 17th century. The Hotchkissville area was initially agricultural, and significant development did not begin until the Washington Turnpike, now Washington Road, opened in 1803. Early industrial activity on the Weekeepeemee River consisted of sawmills and gristmills, some operated by owners whose houses still stand in the district. Josiah Hotchkiss converted one of these sawmills into a textile mill in 1814. The Hotchkiss manufacturing enterprise grew through the first half of the 19th century, building worker house and a mill office, and expanding by the acquisition of other water privileges on the river. Their empire collapsed in the Panic of 1857. The mill properties were taken over by the Dawson family, and other industrial operations began in the second half of the 19th century. Businesses in the area were ultimately harmed and failed by the lack of adequate railroad connections.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is essentially linear in shape, extending along both sides of the Weekeepeemee River, with Washington Road (Connecticut Route 47) the main route on the east side, and Westwood Road on the west side. It is bounded in the south by Jacks Bridge Road, and the north by Paper Mill Road and an end to dense development on Weekeepeemee Road. Only remnants of the villages industrial past survive, its major mill complex having burned in 1920. Most of the buildings in the district are of either Federal or Greek Revival style, or have relatively modest later Victorian stylistic elements.</p><br>
<p>Significant contributing buildings include:</p><br>
<p>Josiah Hotchkiss House, 21 Weekeepeemee Rd, Colonial/Saltbox, 1760</p><br>
<p>Bela Potter House, 2 Easy Street, Italianate, 1847</p><br>
<p>John Ways House, 6 Easy Street, Italianate, 1847</p><br>
<p>Chester Knowles House, 10 Easy Street, Italianate, 1847</p><br>
<p>Eli S. Peet House, 152 Washington Road, Greek Revival, c.1835</p><br>
<p>The Lakeville Historic District in Salisbury, Connecticut is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It is also the name of a local historic district that was established in 1970. The local historic district is entirely included within the National Register-listed district.</p><br>
<p>The district represents about 10 acre of the village center of Lakeville, Connecticut where the street grid remains virtually unchanged from the late 19th century. The district is defined to include properties and sites that contributed to the historical development of the village. It is noted that the district area "is surrounded by a much larger area containing many additional historic industrial, commercial, residential, religious, and recreational sites and structures."</p><br>
<p>At listing, it included 19 contributing buildings, 3 noncontributing buildings and three contributing sites on a 10 acre area. Of the 22 buildings, 13 are houses, stores, industrial buildings or other primary buildings; 9 are barns or garages or other secondary structures. The three sites are two parks, Furnace Park and Bicentennial Park, and a millpond associated with Holley Manufacturing Company.</p><br>
<p>Several Holley Manufacturing Company buildings are included. The district includes the Holley Manufacturing Company building at 7 Holley Street, c.1870, the Holley Manufacturing Company building at 8 Holley Street, 1866, and the Holley Manufacturing Company mill pond.</p><br>
<p>The railroad arrived in Lakeville in 1871, and is represented in the district by the Lakeville Station, c.1871.</p><br>
<p>The Holley-Williams House, built 1768, is an "imposing" Federal-style house. Nearby are the Farnam Tavern, from 1759, and the John Hubbard House, from c.1830 (see accompanying photo #2). and</p><br>
<p>The Pine Meadow Historic District encompasses most of the historic 19th-century village of Pine Meadow in New Hartford, Connecticut. Located at a bend in the West Branch Farmington River southeast of New Hartford center, it is a well-preserved example of a rural industrial village. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of New Hartford was settled in the 18th century, but its principal villages developed in the 19th century around water sources that powered its industries. Pine Meadow was one of these villages, whose origins lie in the damming of the West Branch Farmington River in 1806 by Roger Sheldon. Sheldon dug a power canal across the bend in the river that forms the villages north and east bounds, that was located between what are now Wickett and Main Streets. Main Street, now United States Route 44, was then the Albany Turnpike, and Wickett Street is named for the control structures on the canal that provided water to the various industries powered by the dam. Industrial uses included a brass foundry, textile mill, and the woodworking factory of the Chapin family, which became one of the villages dominant businesses. Most of the industrial facilities of the village have been lost, leaving a combination of worker housing and higher-quality homes of business managers and owners.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is basically bounded on the north and east by the West Branch Farmington River, and on the southwest by a rising ridge that roughly parallels Main Street, with a former railroad right-of-way just above its base. Because the village was at its height in the mid-19th century, most of the distinguished architecture in the village is either Greek Revival or Italianate. The most prominent house in the district is the Philip Chapin House, one of New Hartfords finest examples of Italianate architecture; it was built by one of the business owners. There are many examples of housing built for workers, ranging from small single-family houses to multi-story tenements. A focal point of the village is the triangular green formed by Main Street and Church Street, where the Chapin House and St. Johns Episcopal Church, a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture, stand side by side.</p><br>
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<p>The Sharon Valley Historic District is located around the junction of Kings Hill, Sharon Valley and Sharon Station roads in Sharon, Connecticut, United States. It is a small community that grew up around an iron mining and refining operation during the late 19th century, the first industry in Sharon.</p><br>
<p>Many of the buildings within date from that era. Some are intact examples of their respective architectural styles. There are remains of the original industrial facilities, and three iron bridges. The area was designated a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The district is an irregularly shaped area of 110 acre mostly following the three roads whose intersection defines it in the area between Webutuck and Indian Lake creeks. Other than the area with the former lime kiln, the large town complex with garage, park and ballfields to the immediate west is not included. Its north and south boundaries are at the point where development, or at least houses from the period of significance, ends along the roads in those directions.</p><br>
<p>It is a mostly level residential area with mature, tall trees remaining from the forests that preceded its agricultural use. The intersection is located roughly one mile (1.6 km) north of state highway CT 343, a thousand feet (300 m) east of the New York state line. The nearest large settlements are Amenia, New York, to the west and downtown Sharon to the east. The large Coleman Station Historic District in North East, New York, is a short distance to the northwest.</p><br>
<p>Most of its several dozen contributing properties are 19th-century houses with the occasional outbuilding such as a barn. The oldest are in the Federal style and date to ca. 1825; the newest were built in the early 20th century. Non-contributing properties are mostly the more modern houses that have been built, some in the center of the district, and a state Department of Transportation sandpit. The land on which the mill, lime kiln and other remaining industrial facilities once stood is also included as a contributing property.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Sharon&#39;s economy had been exclusively agricultural throughout the colonial era and after independence. Gristmills built on its creeks were precursors to industrialization, and in 1825 heavy industry came to Sharon with the construction of the first iron furnace. The valley, with both ideal water power from the two creeks, abundant forest for the making of charcoal, good sand, limestone in the nearby hills and ore near Indian Lake to the north, was an ideal site.</p><br>
<p>The Sharon Valley Iron Companys (SVI) cold blast furnace employed 12 at first, enough to make it the towns largest employer by the 1850 census. Over time they built six houses for their workers, a barn, and the Carpenter Gothic office at the center of the district, today the Valley Tavern. They also likely ran the lime kiln as a sideline to their main business.</p><br>
<p>A few years after SVI established its furnace, Asahel Hotchkiss began his malleable iron works behind his house at 53 Sharon Valley Road. He formed partnerships with other local entrepreneurs, and by 1850 he, too, was a major local employer, with that year&#39;s census counting nine workers and valuing his annual production at $25,000 ($ in contemporary dollars). His son Andrew invented the exploding artillery shell, a weapon that proved useful to the Union Army in the American Civil War. By the time the conflict began the Hotchkisses had moved to a new plant at the junction of Indian Lake Creek and Sharon Valley Road. The 1860 census records Hotchkiss & Sons along with the closely related Jewett Manufacturing Company employing 87.</p><br>
<p>SVI went to hot blast production in 1863. After the war Hotchkiss moved to Bridgeport. The Jewett operations remained in the valley, and employed 48 in 1879. Demand declined late in the century. SVI sold out to Barnum & Morehouse in 1898, and the lime kiln and furnace shut down around two years later.</p><br>
<h2>Significant contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>Berlin Bridge over Webutuck Creek along Sharon Station Road. A lenticular truss bridge built by the Berlin Bridge Company in 1880 and shipped to the area for installation by local residents. It is considered the most visually distinctive of the three bridges in the district.</p><br>
<p>Asahel Hotchkiss House, 53 Sharon Valley Road. One of the oldest houses in the district was the residence of one of its major entrepreneurs.</p><br>
<p>Lime kiln ruins along Sharon Station Road at Webutuck Creek. A stone foundation and some blocks are the most that remain of any of Sharon Valley&#39;s industrial production facilities.</p><br>
<p>Valley Tavern, 34 Sharon Valley Road. The Sharon Valley Iron Company used this distinctive Carpenter Gothic house at the Sharon Station Road intersection as their office.</p><br>
<p>Abel Woods House, 36 Sharon Valley Road. Local lore dates this to 1750 but it is more likely to have been built around 1825. It is said to have some of the most elaborate Federal style interiors in the state.</p><br>
<p>The West Goshen Historic District is a historic district in the village of West Goshen in the town of Goshen, Connecticut. It encompasses a well-preserved early 19th-century industrial village, with twenty historically significant properties in the village, most of which lie on Connecticut Route 4 between Beach Street and Thompson Road. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The village of West Goshen, located west of the village center of Goshen on the Sharon Turnpike (Connecticut Route 4), was isolated and not developed until that road was built about 1770. The area was recognized for the potential of its water power earlier, with a gristmill and sawmill standing on the banks of local waterways in the 1740s. More development took place with the construction of a woolen mill in 1810, intended to process the output of Goshen&#39;s large sheep population. This prompted the construction of worker housing for the mill employees, and a small village quickly arose. The West Goshen Store, built in 1814, is one of the products of this period of growth. The village declined around the time of the American Civil War, as water power began to be phased out for industrial works.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is about 29 acre in size, extending along Route 4 between Beach Street and Thompson Road. It is roughly bisected by a branch of the Marshepaug River, where its mill resources (none of which have survived in more than archaeological form) survive. Most of this area&#39;s buildings are residential and were built in the early decades of the 19th century, with Federal or Greek Revival style. There are some buildings that are older and some that date to the 1880s. Non-residential buildings include the former West Goshen Store (330 Rt. 4) and a former carding mill at 331 Rt. 4, built in 1818.</p><br>
<p>Seton Village is a National Historic Landmark District in a rural residential area south of Santa Fe in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. It encompasses a residential settlement and educational facility established in 1930 by Ernest Thompson Seton , an educator and conservationist best known as a founder of the Boy Scouts of America. The district includes the remains of Seton&#39;s 32-room home and other residential and educational buildings constructed mostly between 1930 and 1945. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Seton Village is located about 7 mi south of downtown Santa Fe and west of Interstate 25 on County Road 58. The village has a central plaza, around which adobe residences and community buildings. To the east of the plaza stand the remains of Seton&#39;s 32-room castle, which burned during restoration in 2005. Distinctive structures in the village include two building that were built around railroad cars that Seton brought to the site. Stripped over their interiors, the two cars were finished plaster on the inside, and had adobe walls built around them. One of these buildings has since had the car removed from its inside.</p><br>
<h3>Seton Castle</h3><br>
<p>Seton began designing and building his castle in 1933. The 32-room, 6,900 square foot (640 m) multi-level building had a flat-roof and rough hewn stone wall exterior. The interior had oak floors and plaster walls with the ceilings supported by log rafters. The Castle was built on one of the highest points on Seton&#39;s property, with views over his village and the western landscape.</p><br>
<h3>Community activities</h3><br>
<p>The Village was home to the Seton Institute, including the Woodcraft League and the College of Indian Wisdom, which provided Woodcraft and Scouting leaders with a variety of training opportunities. The Institute closed at the outbreak of World War II.</p><br>
<p>At Seton&#39;s invitation, Maurice and Marceil Taylor moved their printing equipment to New Mexico in 1938 and set up the Seton Village Press. The Village Press closed in 1943, also because of the war.</p><br>
<h2>Seton Village today</h2><br>
<p>Seton Village is designated a National Historic Landmark and a New Mexico State Cultural Property. The Academy for the Love of Learning, an educational organization which owns the property, preserved the castle ruins as a "contemplative garden." The Academy&#39;s Seton Legacy Project maintains a collection of art and archives pertaining to Ernest Thompson Seton. The Academy Campus, including the Seton art gallery, opened in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The village has a view of the Jemez Mountains and Mount Taylor.</p><br>
<p>Since August 20, 2007, several detached human feet have been discovered on the coasts of the Salish Sea in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, USA. The feet belonged to five men, one woman and three other people of unknown sex. Of the 16 feet found, only two have been left feet; both of those were matched with right feet. As of February 2012, only five feet of four people have been identified; it is not known to whom the rest of the feet belong. In addition, several hoax feet have been planted in the area.</p><br>
<h2>Discoveries</h2><br>
<p>As of February 11, 2016, sixteen feet have been found in the Canadian province of British Columbia, and four in the US state of Washington.</p><br>
<p>In July 2008 it was announced that one foot had been identified by Vancouver police, using DNA, as belonging to a man who was depressed and probably committed suicide. His identity was withheld on request of his family.</p><br>
<p>These foot discoveries are not the first ones on British Columbia&#39;s coast. One was found in Vancouver in 1887, leading to the place of discovery being called Leg-In-Boot Square. On July 30, 1914, the Vancouver Sun reported that recent arrivals from Kimsquit reported a human leg encased in a high boot was found on a beach near the mouth of the Salmon River (a previous name for the Dean River near Kimsquit, near the headwater of Dean Channel). It was thought the remains were from a man who had drowned on the river the previous summer.</p><br>
<h3>Hoaxes</h3><br>
<p>Another "human" foot, discovered on June 18, 2008, on Tyee Spit near Campbell River on Vancouver Island, was a hoax. The hoax was a "skeletonized animal paw" which was put in a sock and shoe and then stuffed with dried seaweed. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have begun an investigation into the hoax, and an arrest could result in charges of public mischief.</p><br>
<p>After the eleventh foot was found on August 31, 2011, several running shoes containing what police suspected was raw meat were found washed up on Oak Beach, British Columbia.</p><br>
<h2>Proposed explanations</h2><br>
<p>The series of discoveries has been called "astounding" and "almost beyond explanation", as no other body parts have turned up. The discoveries have caused speculation that the feet may be those of people who died in a boating accident or a plane crash in the ocean. although none of the first four feet showed tool marks. This does not rule out foul play, however; it is possible that the bodies could have been weighted down and disposed of, and the feet were separated due to natural decay.</p><br>
<p>Determining the origin of the feet is complicated because ocean currents may carry floating items long distances, and because currents in the Strait of Georgia are unpredictable. Under optimal conditions, a human body may remain intact in water for as long as three decades, meaning that the feet may have been floating around for years.</p><br>
<p>Another theory is that the feet belonged to people who died in the Asian tsunami on December 26, 2004. Richmond-based writer Shane Lambert has advocated this position, pointing to the fact that many of the shoes found were manufactured and sold in 2004 or earlier. Lambert acknowledges that there could be other sources for the shoes or multiple sources. However, besides the dates when the shoes were manufactured, Lambert cites ocean currents and their ultimate northward tendencies up the Pacific Ocean from part of the region that was hit by the 2004 tsunami.</p><br>
<p>One foot has been identified as belonging to a man who was depressed and was believed to have committed suicide. This suggests the feet could belong to other people who have jumped from the bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Level of rarity</h2><br>
<p>Decomposition may separate the foot from the body because the ankle is relatively weak, and the buoyancy caused by air either inside or trapped within a shoe would allow it to float away. According to Simon Fraser University entomologist Gail Anderson, extremities such as the hands, feet, and head often detach as a body decomposes in the water, although they rarely float.</p><br>
<p>However, finding feet and not the rest of the bodies has been deemed unusual. Finding two feet has been given a "million to one odds" and has thus been described as "an anomaly". The finding of the third foot made it the first time three such discoveries had been made so close to each other. The fourth discovery caused speculation about human interference and, statistically, was called "curious".</p><br>
<h2>Media reaction</h2><br>
<p>After the fifth foot was discovered the story had begun to receive increased international media attention. With major headlines from newspapers such as the Melbourne Herald Sun, The Guardian, and the Cape Times in South Africa, the story elicited much speculation about the cause of the mystery, originating from "morbid fascination" with this type of subject, as stated by one scientist who identifies remains of victims. David Letterman also questioned two of his audience members who were Canadian about the mystery during one of his shows.</p><br>
<p>Jørn Lier Horst, a Norwegian police officer, wrote a novel inspired by the events, called Dregs (Sandstone Press 2011), in which an experienced investigator gives a new explanation for the findings.</p><br>
<p>Simon Beckett uses the discovery of the feet as a back story in his novel The Restless Dead. It is mentioned when the main character, Dr David Hunter, a forensic anthropologist, discovers a severed foot in a river.</p><br>
