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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 ]
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.
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.
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 Old Town Hall is located in the Downtown section of Stamford, Connecticut. It is located at the southwest corner of Main and Atlantic Streets, occupying a portion of a triangular block bounded on the south by Bank Street. The rest of the block is occupied by the modern portion of Stamford's city hall.
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.
One Landmark Square, also known as Landmark Tower, or simply Landmark, is a 22-story, 295 ft (90 m) skyscraper located at One Landmark Square in Stamford, Connecticut.It is currently the third tallest building in Stamford, after Park Tower Stamford and Atlantic Station, and from 1970 to 1990 was the tallest building on the coast between New York City and Boston.