Brookfield Center Historic District (Brookfield, Connecticut)
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The Brookfield Center Historic District in Brookfield, Connecticut
is a historic district
that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1991. It is located in the vicinity of the junction of Route 133 and Route 25
.
The district represents the original settlement of the town of Brookfield.
The district contains 67 contributing buildings in properties over a 43 acres (17.4 ha) area.
The district includes the old town hall, congregational church, a general store, a St. Paul's School for Boys, and the surrounding residential neighborhood.
From its NRHP application:
Architecture represented in the district includes Bungalow/Craftsman, Greek Revival, and Queen Anne style architecture.
Contributing properties in the district include:
Brookfield, Connecticut
Brookfield is a town located in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 16,452 at the 2010 census. First settled in 1710 by John Muirwood and several other colonial founders who bartered for the land From the Wyantenuck Nation Under the Sachem Waramaugs who lived...
is a historic district
Historic district (United States)
In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...
that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1991. It is located in the vicinity of the junction of Route 133 and Route 25
Route 25 (Connecticut)
Route 25 is a , primary state highway connecting the city of Bridgeport and the town of Brookfield in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Route 25 is a six-lane freeway from Bridgeport to northern Trumbull and a two-lane surface road the rest of the way to Brookfield.Route 25 was...
.
The district represents the original settlement of the town of Brookfield.
The district contains 67 contributing buildings in properties over a 43 acres (17.4 ha) area.
The district includes the old town hall, congregational church, a general store, a St. Paul's School for Boys, and the surrounding residential neighborhood.
From its NRHP application:
The Brookfield Center Historic District is significant architecturally because it consists of a group of residential, religious, and municipal buildings which are good examples of many styles of the 18th–20th centuries with a concentration from the 19th century, pre-1875. The buildings exist in their original relationship to one another in a good state of preservation, free of intrusions, giving an accurate sense of how the village developed over time.
Architecture represented in the district includes Bungalow/Craftsman, Greek Revival, and Queen Anne style architecture.
Contributing properties in the district include:
- 150 Whisconier Road, c. 1700, a saltboxSaltboxA saltbox is a building with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back, generally a wooden frame house. A saltbox has just one story in the back and two stories in the front...
- 169 Whisconier Road, c. 1740
- 140 Whisconier Road, a vernacular building with selected Federal style details, has semi-elliptical attic windows
- Congregational Church, a Greek Revival church