ArchitectureWestport, CT
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.
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Preservation
Historic districts, demolition delays and the houses saved or lost.
ArchitectureWestport, CT
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.
Open DoorWestport, CT
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.
Open DoorWestport, CT
Open Door at the Allen House, Westport’s Miesian Survivor
Designed in 1958 by a protégé of Mies van der Rohe and listed on the National Register in 2010, the house on Burritt’s Landing is a rare intact piece of Westport’s modern period.
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Infrastructure
The State Wants a New Cribari Bridge. Saugatuck Wants the Old One Fixed.
The Connecticut Department of Transportation prefers a $78 million to $86 million replacement of the swing span. Four local groups want a rehabilitation that keeps the bridge low, and a town committee is weighing in.
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Preservation
Saving the Saltbox
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.
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Architecture
The Paul Rudolph House Westport Lost
In 2007, after the National Trust and the state’s attorney general intervened, the Micheels House on Minute Man Hill was demolished. It was the first Rudolph house lost after the architect’s death.
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Development
Nine Residences Proposed for an 1890 Office Site on Imperial Avenue
A pre-application would replace an 1890 office building at 34 Imperial Avenue with nine market-rate homes. One commissioner called it a big ask without a big benefit.
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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?
Seller’s DeskNational