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Norfolk (NOR-f Ōk) is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.The population was 1,588 at the 2020 census. [1] The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region.
The Norfolk Historic District encompasses the historic civic and commercial center of Norfolk, Connecticut. Centered around a triangular green at the junction of United States Route 44 and Connecticut Route 272 , it is a well-preserved late 19th to early 20th-century town center, with a number of architecturally distinctive buildings and ...
Norfolk is in northwestern Connecticut, in the Litchfield Hills.It includes the Norfolk Historic District, which covers the historic center of the village, but also extends west to include Old Colony Road, Blackberry Street, and Valley View Road, north to include Shepard Road, east to include Laurel Way and Beacon Lane, and south to include Highfield Road, Grant Street, and Battell Road. [2]
The road between Torrington and Norfolk was originally designated as a secondary state highway in 1922, known as Highway 312. In the 1932 state highway renumbering , old Highway 312 was renumbered to Route 49 .
Norfolk's World War I Memorial stands in a triangular grassy area at the junction of Greenwoods Road West and North Street, near the northern end of the village center. The monument itself is a triangular structure built out of ashlar granite, standing about 15 feet (4.6 m) high.
The Low House stands in a small residential area east of Norfolk's village center, down a private lane extending south from Laurel Way Extension. Set on an expansive landscaped property, it is a sprawling 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure with Georgian Revival features. Its main portion has two gable-roofed sections set at right angles ...
Hillside is a historic house at 310 Litchfield Road in Norfolk, Connecticut.The house was built in 1908 for an heiress of the Remington Arms business fortune, and is one of the most spectacular designs of Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a prominent New York City architect who designed many summer properties in the community.
Haystack Mountain [3] is a 1,680-foot-high (510 m) mountain topped with an observation tower that is the chief features of Haystack Mountain State Park, a 354-acre [4] public recreation area in the town of Norfolk, Connecticut.