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Downtown Stamford, or Stamford Downtown, is the central business district of the city of Stamford, Connecticut, United States.It includes major retail establishments, a shopping mall, a university campus, the headquarters of major corporations and Fortune 500 companies, as well as other retail businesses, hotels, restaurants, offices, entertainment venues and high-rise apartment buildings.
The Stamford Main Post Office, also known as US Post Office–Stamford Main, is a historic post office building at 421 Atlantic Street in Stamford, Connecticut.The building, built in 1916 is prominent sited in downtown Stamford, being in view of the Connecticut Turnpike, and it is unusual for its Italianate style of architecture. [2]
Carries Main St. over the Rippowam River in downtown Stamford [22]: 7 41°03′08″N 73°32′44″W / 41.0522°N 73.5456°W / 41.0522; -73.5456 ( Main Street "Connecticut's only wrought-iron lenticular truss remaining on a major artery in an urban center" and one of only 17 pony truss bridges in the state, built by the Berlin ...
St. Mary's Church—540 Elm St. (added 1987) Stamford Harbor Lighthouse—South of breakwater, Stamford Harbor (added May 3, 1991) Suburban Club—6 Suburban Ave./580 Main St. (added September 10, 1989) Turn-of-River Bridge—Old North Stamford Road at Rippowam River (added August 31, 1987) US Post Office-Stamford Main—421 Atlantic St. (added ...
Rich Forum opened in 1992 at 307 Atlantic. It includes: Truglia Theatre, a conventional proscenium theatre with 757 seats. Leonhardt Studio, a black box theatre, for more intimate performance events. Mercede Promenade, the main lobby and reception area. Rossi Salon on the upper level has a panoramic view of downtown Stamford.
It was the largest in the state at the time. It is known as "The Mother Church of Stamford." [7] [8] [9] Two new convents were constructed at the site of the new church on Atlantic Street. The Saint John's School, completed in 1906 and directly behind the new church, was staffed by the Sisters of Mercy and operated until its closure in 1973. [10]
Aside from Police Headquarters, located at 725 Bedford St., opened in 2019, in Downtown Stamford, SPD also operates substations in Stamford's West Side at Wilson St. and W. Main St., and at 1137 High Ridge Rd and Hope Street. The current Chief of Police is Tim Shaw since April 9, 2020, who was a police officer in Stamford before leaving to ...
An earlier Stamford Town Hall had been constructed in 1871 and destroyed in a fire in 1904. [8] To replace it, the City of Stamford (which then had about 19,000 inhabitants) commissioned a new town hall, designed by architects Edgar Josselyn and Nathan Mellen. [8] Designed in 1905, [2] the building opened in 1906. [3]