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
The colonial spine of Westport, its historic district and the houses that line it.
ArchitectureWestport
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.
ArchitectureLandmarks
From an 18th-century farmhouse to a 1958 modern house, the town’s listed buildings and districts, in the order they joined the register.
Open DoorArtists’ Colony
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.
PreservationRiverside Avenue
Westport can delay a demolition for 180 days and can block one only in a designated district. This year an 1810 saltbox on Riverside Avenue showed what else it takes to keep an old house standing.
Seller’s DeskNational
Seller’s DeskNational
Seller’s DeskNational
Seller’s DeskNational
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