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Louis Lassen's lunch wagon, circa 1907–1916. Louis Lassen was born as Ludvig Lassen on July 30, 1865, [3] to a Danish family in Ballum parish in Schleswig, a region that Denmark lost to Prussia in their 1864 war.
Roughly bounded by Railroad, Arch, Field Point, W. Elm, Greenwich, Putnam, Mason, Havemeyer, and Bruce, in downtown Greenwich 41°01′33″N 73°37′36″W / 41.025833°N 73.626667°W / 41.025833; -73.626667 ( Greenwich Avenue Historic
The Thomas Lyon House, at 1 Byram Road, was built ca. 1739 [2] and is considered to be the oldest unaltered structure in Greenwich, Connecticut. [3] The restoration of the house, a Colonial saltbox, is the primary project of the Greenwich Preservation Trust, a not-for-profit organization that grew out of the Thomas Lyon House Committee formed by the Byram Neighborhood Association. [4]
After the death of Mrs. Greenway's brother George Lauder Jr. and the sale of his Greenwich estate "Tignabruick" (since demolished), the estate was the gathering place for the wider family. This estate remained in their hands until the death of G. Lauder Greenway, who had died childless, after which the estate was sold privately.
Feake-Ferris House, circa 1645-1689, likely the first and oldest house in Greenwich Pastures, Greenwich, Connecticut (about 1890–1900) by artist John Henry Twachtman. On July 18, 1640, Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake, jointly purchased the land between the Asamuck and Tatomuck brooks, in the area now called as Old Greenwich, from Wiechquaesqueek Munsees living there for "twentie-five coates."
Greenwich (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ n ɪ tʃ / GREH-nitch) is a town in southwestern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 63,518. [2] It is the largest town on Connecticut's affluent Gold Coast. Greenwich is home to many hedge funds and financial services firms due to its residential setting and ...
Peter M. Brant, publisher, founder of the Greenwich Polo Club, husband of model Stephanie Seymour [35] Richard C. Breeden, chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission [80] Steven A. Cohen, runs Point72 Asset Management in Stamford, and majority owner of the New York Mets; Ray Dalio (born 1949), CEO of Bridgewater Associates of Westport
According to the Conservancy, as reported in Greenwich Free Press, the outermost rings of one summer beam dated to 1610, but due to the lack of sapwood in the sample, the precise date of the beam is unknown (but possibly 1640 or perhaps the 1680s). [13] Historian Missy Wolf researched the land's title history dating back to Feake. [14]