ArchitectureWestport
Stone, Glass and the Wrecking Ball
Nearly four centuries of building in Westport, from the Kings Highway colonials to Frazier Forman Peters’s stone cottages to the modern houses the town lost and the ones it kept.
Westport neighborhood
Compo Beach
The town beach and the streets around it, from Compo Road South to Old Mill and Owenoke.
ArchitectureLandmarks
Westport’s 17 Places on the National Register
From an 18th-century farmhouse to a 1958 modern house, the town’s listed buildings and districts, in the order they joined the register.
CoastCompo Beach
Westport Prices Its Shoreline at $14 Million to $54 Million
A coastal engineer laid out options to rebuild five town beaches at a forum on Oct. 1. The town is still counting the cost of a storm that dropped about seven inches of rain.
Open DoorArtists’ Colony
Where the Illustrators Lived
Before the hedge funds and the new builds, Westport was an artists’ colony. Many of its houses still stand, and a few have come to market in recent years.
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Buyer’s Guide
Is This House in a Flood Zone? A Westport Field Guide
About 3,000 Westport properties sit in mapped flood zones, and new FEMA maps for the Saugatuck River watershed are expected this fall. How to read the risk before you bid.
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Buyer’s Guide
Beach Emblems, Longshore and Sherwood Island, What a Westport Address Gets You
Residents get the beaches for a fraction of what visitors pay, a town-owned golf course, a library forum that holds up to 650 and a state park off Exit 18. The details, with prices.
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Open Door
The Summer the Fitzgeralds Rented on Compo Road South
In 1920 the newly married F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald leased the Wakeman Cottage, a 1758 Colonial on Compo Road South. A century later the house has changed hands at prices the couple could not have imagined.
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Should I Sell My House Off-Market?
Seller’s DeskNational
Why Isn’t My House Selling?
Seller’s DeskNational
How Do I Sell a House I Inherited?
Seller’s DeskNational
How Much Does It Cost to Sell a House?
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