Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Barnum Museum is a museum at 820 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. It has an extensive collection related to P. T. Barnum and the history of Bridgeport. The building in which it is housed was built with funding from Barnum, and initiallly housed the Barnum Institute of Science and History .
The Barnum–Palliser Historic District is located about 3/4 mile south of downtown Bridgeport, just south of the railroad tracks and Interstate 95. Most of the district consists of single and two-family houses on Austin, Gregory, and Atlantic Streets between Park and Myrtle Avenues.
Location of Bridgeport in Fairfield County, Connecticut. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bridgeport, Connecticut. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. The locations of ...
The Barnum Museum, housed in a building that was originally contracted for construction by P. T. Barnum himself, has an extensive collection related to P. T. Barnum and the history of Bridgeport. In 1949, Bridgeport initiated a Barnum Day parade which has grown into an annual multi-day festival.
The East Main Street Historic District encompasses a well-preserved late 19th-century commercial area on the east side of Bridgeport, Connecticut.Extending along East Main Street from Interstate 95 to Crescent Place, the district arose as part of a major development push orchestrated by P.T. Barnum in the 1850s, and contains one of Connecticut's finest assemblages of late Victorian commercial ...
Barnum Museum: Bridgeport: Fairfield: Biographical: A collection related to P. T. Barnum, his circus and the history of Bridgeport, Connecticut housed in a historic building on the National Register of Historic Places: Bates-Scofield Homestead: Darien: Fairfield: Historic house: website, operated by the Darien Historical Society, 18th-century ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The Marina Park development is located in the South End of Bridgeport, an area now largely taken up by the campus of the University of Bridgeport.The historic district is a small surviving area of a much larger development initiated by P.T. Barnum, who engineered the acquisition of Seaside Park for the city, and built his own residences (neither standing anymore) in the area.