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In 2016, Stamford's oldest extant house, the Hoyt-Barnum House, was relocated from Bedford Street, near downtown, to a location next to the Stamford History Center in North Stamford. In 2018, the Cappelli Organization opened up the first of its two Atlantic Station towers, next to the United States Post Office–Stamford Main , which hosts 325 ...
A historic district which first included the largest remaining area of pre-1930s commercial and institutional buildings in downtown Stamford. [12] Its boundaries were expanded in 1985 to capture the only surviving area in downtown of lower-rent commercial structures such as warehouses, laundries, and stables.
The Stamford History Center was founded in 1901 and incorporated in 1909 as the Stamford Historical Society, Inc. [2] The early collections included mainly agrarian objects such as wooden implements, early furniture, ironware, earthenware, pewter and silver.
UConn Stamford's campus is located in Downtown Stamford, and its main building, reconverted from hosting a former Bloomingdale's store that had closed in 1990, opened in 1998. [71] In 2017, UCONN Stamford opened a 300-student dormitory around the corner from the Stamford Campus on Washington Boulevard.
The Downtown Stamford Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The originally listed area included 56 buildings along Atlantic, Main, Bank, and Bedford Streets, and examples of Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals , Late Victorian , and Commercial Vernacular architecture. [ 1 ]
Barnum's wife, Betsey Hoyt Barnum, was a descendant of the house's builder, Samuel Hoyt, and it remained with Betsey Hoyt Barnum's descendants until 1922. The Stamford Historical Society, now known as the Stamford History Center, purchased the Hoyt-Barnum house from a local bank in 1942, opening it to the public in 1950. [3]
Stamford Art Association was set up in 1971. It is a non-profit organization that showcases local artists to the public. It is downtown on Franklin St. close to the UConn-Stamford Campus. Hoyt-Barnum House is a historic house museum, in a 17th-century structure stated to be the oldest authentic residence in Stamford. Originally built in 1699 by ...
The district, located in rural northern Stamford near the border with New York, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] Although the district includes a few early 19th-century properties, the area was most heavily developed between 1850 and 1920, and was a local center of shoe manufacturing until it was bypassed by ...