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The Main Street Historic District encompasses the historic civic, commercial, and residential center of Durham, Connecticut. The district is primarily linear and runs along Main Street ( Route 17 ) from between Higganum Road and Town House Road in the south to Talcott Lane in the north, and along Maple Avenue, which parallels Main Street.
Beginning about 1870, Main Street was transformed by this growth from a mainly residential thoroughfare to one lined by commercial businesses. The town of Windham's civic functions were relocated from Windham Center beginning in the 1890s, with the Georgian Revival Town Hall opening in 1896. The oldest surviving commercial/industrial buildings ...
The district extends along Main Street from St. John's Square (junction with Spring Street) in the north, for five blocks on the west side (to College Street) and 4-1/2 blocks on the right (midway between Washington and Court Streets), abutting the Metro South Historic District on the west side, and modern buildings on the right.
The oldest buildings are the Comstock House (c. 1830, 1132 Main Street) and Wells Hall, built in 1832 as a private academy and now serving as town hall. One of its 31 contributing buildings is the St. John's Episcopal Church, which is individually listed on the National Register; it is a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture built in 1867 ...
The Ashland Town House stands on the west side of Main Street in the civic heart of the town, opposite the town's 1835 Congregational meeting house. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide and seven deep, with a front-facing gable roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The roof line is highlighted by dentil ...
The Broad Street Historic District encompasses a well-preserved 19th-century residential area in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. Centered on Broad and Pearl Streets west of Main Street, the area was developed residential in response to local economic development intended to revitalize the city, whose port was in decline.
"Zoey 101" starred Britney Spears' little sis, Jamie-Lynn Spears, and told the story of her middle school life at Pacific Coast Academy, a.k.a. the school we all wanted to attend when we were younger.
Route 101 is a state highway in northeastern Connecticut running from Pomfret to the Rhode Island state line in Killingly. The road originated as a 19th-century toll road known as the Connecticut and Rhode Island Turnpike. Route 101 was designated along the modern alignment in 1935 when an earlier Route 101 was renumbered to U.S. Route 44.