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The Fairfield Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Fairfield, Connecticut, roughly along Old Post Road between U.S. Route 1 and Turney Road. The area contains Fairfield's town hall, public library, and houses dating from the late 18th century, and includes portions of the town's earliest colonial settlement area.
The Community Theatre in downtown Fairfield was acquired, renovated, and reopened by Sacred Heart University in 2019. [26] Originally built in 1920 as a vaudeville venue, it is Fairfield's oldest and last remaining cinema. [27] The Fairfield Theater Company operates an auditorium located near the downtown Fairfield train station. [28]
Riverside Ave., Wilton and Post Rds.; in downtown Westport, on the west side of (and abutting) the Saugatuck River and north side of Post Road East 41°08′25″N 73°21′54″W / 41.140278°N 73.365°W / 41.140278; -73.365 ( National Hall Historic
In 1981, Allied closed Read's landmark downtown store, leaving behind a boarded-up building as a reminder of Bridgeport's brighter past. [8] It moved the store into space recently vacated by Gimbel's at the nearby Lafayette Plaza Mall in downtown Bridgeport. In 1983, Read's opened a New York location in the Jefferson Valley Mall in Yorktown ...
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 287 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A local commission enforces preservation rules in the district (and also in two other historic districts in the town of Fairfield). Alterations to properties in the district have to be approved. A case where a Greek Revival mansion owner placed a large sculpture on the grounds went all the way to the U.S. supreme court in 2007.
Fairfield Beach is located to the south of downtown Fairfield, and the neighborhood extends south from Old Post Road to the Long Island Sound. The neighborhood originally held a variety of income levels, with small family farms such as the Hauser farm on the corner of Reef Road and Charles Street on one end of the spectrum, and small summer ...
Fairfield Avenue is Black Rock's primary artery. Black Rock is also accessible from exit 25 on I-95 and from Route 1, both of which run just north of the area. Black Rock is served by the Fairfield–Black Rock station on Metro-North's New Haven Line, located just across Ash Creek in neighboring Fairfield, which opened on December 5, 2011. [8] [10]