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Upper Main Street Historic District (Ansonia, Connecticut)

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67: 253:. The district is about 2 acres (0.81 ha) in size, with its major feature a row of connected masonry commercial buildings on the west side of Main Street, extending south from Maple Street to the opera house. A smaller array of buildings standing roughly opposite the opera house round out the district. The district is hemmed in by a combination of more recent construction and by some of the factories that caused the city's growth. Most of the buildings were constructed between 1870 and 1900, with most predating Ansonia's separation from 92: 824: 835: 53: 99: 74: 261:
granite facade. Immediately north of the opera house stands a two-story Romanesque building finished in yellow brick. The buildings extending north from it are all brick three-story buildings, whose most architecturally sophisticated elements are their cornices, some of which are elaborately worked.
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The Ansonia Opera House is the largest and most prominent of the district's buildings. It was built about 1870, and is a fine example of Italianate architecture executed in brick and stone. Across the street stands the Savings Bank of Ansonia building, a neo-Classical structure with an elaborate
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Ansonia's historic downtown area is located on a terrace of the steeply pitched hillside on the eastern bank of the
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encompasses a collection of mainly late-19th-century commercial buildings on Main Street in downtown
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Upper Main Street Historic District (Ansonia, Connecticut) is located in Connecticut
Upper Main Street Historic District (Ansonia, Connecticut) is located in the United States
Ansonia, Connecticut
41°20′41″N 73°4′47″W / 41.34472°N 73.07972°W / 41.34472; -73.07972
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Ansonia, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places
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National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut


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