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Southport Historic District (Fairfield, Connecticut)

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architecture of the district consists primarily of buildings constructed after 1779 when the British virtually destroyed Fairfield. It is a valuable concentration of Greek Revival and Victorian structures which were for the most part the homes of substantial men whose wealth came from their involvement in commerce, banking, and shipping."
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and Southport Harbor, on the west by Old South Road, and on the east by Rose Hill Road. It includes additional properties on both sides of Old South Road and Rose Hill Road, but excludes the commercial and industrial properties along Pequot Avenue inside the so-defined area. This is about a quarter
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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
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In 1970, the NRHP nomination for the district argued it was "significant because it has been the center of trade and commerce in Fairfield and because its history is typical of the development of commercial life in many New England ports in the fifty years following the revolutionary war. The
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the U.S. supreme court in 2007. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the commission, that the sculpture qualified as a structure and required commission approval. It was the Historic District Commission of Fairfield. More here. The 80 foot, six ton sculpture by German artist
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798 Harbor Road, now a house, the main part of which was a store in the 1850s. In 1894 it was the "Bachelor's Comfort, and Married Men's Relief" club, during World War I it was a British War Relief something, and later it was the first clubhouse for the Pequot Yacht
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95 Main Street, built c. 1827, which served as a school, a place of worship, and as a town hall. The building, now a residence, at some point after 1854 was moved closer to Main Street and was altered.
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for Dimon prior to 1818, since enlarged and altered. It has the "Dimon Oak", known to be at least 260 years old in 1970, which stood nearly 100 feet tall and measured 19.5 feet in circumference
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564 Harbor Road, built in 1835 by a shipowner and captain, Charles C. Perry, built in a Greek Revival style which was later altered but then restored in 1926
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824 Harbor Road, Meeker House, built prior to 1766, only structure that is known to have survived the British burning of Southport in 1779
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Map showing approximate bounds of Southport Historic District (but not exclusion of Pequot Avenue commercial and industrial properties)
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of the former borough area of Southport, which ran from Mill River to Sasco Creek, and from the Southport Harbor to Mill Hill.
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104 Old South Road, home of Paschal Sheffield, a privateer for Argentina during its war for independence from Spain
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750 Harbour Road, the house of Oliver Perry, a significant figure (but not the more famous
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It includes more than 150 contributing buildings. The more significant ones include:
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Part of Pequot Road is included in the district. Newer, commercial parts are not.
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in 1971. It preserves a portion of the modern neighborhood and former borough of
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three Victorian era houses at 658 Pequot Road, 418 Harbor Road, 385 Harbor Road
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780 Harbor Road, house of Walter Perry III, a Federal style house built in 1830
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Fairfield County, Connecticut
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
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the "Nichols Houses", at 155 Rose Hill Road, 494 Harbor Road, 534 Harbor Road
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Harbor Road runs along the harbor and all of it is included in the district
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Roughly bounded by Southport Harbor, RR, Old South Rd. and Rose Hill Rd.,
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National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut
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List of jails and prisons on the National Register of Historic Places
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Walking Through History. The Seaports of Black Rock and Southport
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712 Harbor Road, a Greek Revival house with Corinthian columns
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Freight House
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The area of the district is bounded on the north by the
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Fairfield Historic District (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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Connecticut Bank, Mill River Branch, 227 Main Street
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25 Westway Road, built in 1856, has gingerbread trim
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Station
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Southport Historic District (Fairfield, Connecticut) is located in Connecticut
Southport Historic District (Fairfield, Connecticut) is located in the United States
Fairfield, Connecticut
41°7′55″N 73°17′4″W / 41.13194°N 73.28444°W / 41.13194; -73.28444
Greek Revival
71000898
Fairfield, Connecticut
historic district
National Register of Historic Places
Southport, Connecticut
Metro-North railroad
Mill River
Anselm Kiefer
Oliver Hazard Perry
Joseph Sheffield
Rock Island Railroad
saltbox

HABS
Pequot Library
Captain Ward Bulkley House, 298 Harbor Road
Zalmon Wakeman House, 418 Harbor Road
Captain William Webb House, 478 Harbor Road
Allen Nichols House, 494 Harbor Road
Barnabas Sturges House, 534 Harbor Road
Charles Perry House, 564 Harbor Road
Henry Sturges House, 608 Harbor Road

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