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Cos Cob is a neighborhood and census-designated place in the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. [2] It is located on the Connecticut shoreline in southern Fairfield County . It had a population of 6,873 at the 2020 census .
The Bush–Holley House is a National Historic Landmark and historic house museum at 39 Strickland Road in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut.It was constructed circa 1730 and in the late nineteenth century was a boarding house and the center of the Cos Cob Art Colony, Connecticut's first art colony.
Cos Cob Power Station was a historic power station near the Metro-North Railroad tracks, the Mianus River and Sound Shore Drive in the Cos Cob area of Greenwich, Connecticut. Cos Cob Power Station The Spanish Revival style station building of 1907 was significant as part of the first mainline railroad electrification in the United States, using ...
The first Woodcraft "Tribe" was established at Cos Cob, Connecticut, United States of America, in 1901. Seton's property had been vandalized by a group of boys from the local school. After having to repaint his gate a number of times, he went to the school, and invited the boys to the property for a weekend, rather than prosecuting them.
For longer stays, they boarded at the Holley House (now known as the Bush-Holley House), a rambling old saltbox overlooking Cos Cob's small harbor. Old Holley House, Cos Cob by John Henry Twachtman (1890-1900) During the winter, Twachtman and Weir taught at the Art Students League of New York. Probably beginning in 1890, Twachtman established ...
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as Cos Cob Railroad Station. [6] The nearby Mianus River Railroad Bridge is also listed on the National Register. The Cos Cob Power Station , a former New Haven Railroad electrical substation on the western edge of that bridge, is also NRHP-registered despite being demolished ...
Robert Coe (1596 – bef. 1690) was an early English settler, public official, and a founder of five towns in Connecticut and New York: Wethersfield, Stamford, Hempstead, Elmhurst, and Jamaica.
MacRae continued living in New York City and coming to Cos Cob to take classes from co-founder John Henry Twachtman. He moved to the Holley House in 1899, and married Emma on October 17, 1900. [4] She gave birth to twin girls, Constant and Clarissa, on October 31, 1904. [5] MacRae lived at Holley House for the duration of his career. He ...