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The National Hall Historic District is a 3-acre (1.2 ha) historic district in Westport, Connecticut that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The district encompasses a historic commercial center of the town, located on the west bank of the Saugatuck River where the Boston Post Road crosses the river.
The Bridge Street Historic District is a linear district, covering about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) of Bridge Street just east of the Saugatuck River, as well as a short stretch of Imperial Avenue, which runs north from Bridge Street. It includes the 1884 Saugatuck River Bridge, which connects Bridge Street to Saugatuck village, located on the west ...
Fields. Astrophysics. Aerospace engineering. Planetary science. Institutions. NASA. Southwest Research Institute. Sol Alan Stern (born November 22, 1957) is an American engineer, planetary scientist and space tourist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express.
09-83500. GNIS feature ID. 0213532. Website. www .westportct .gov. Westport is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, along the Long Island Sound within Connecticut's Gold Coast. It is 48 miles (77 km) northeast of New York City. The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region.
29 June 1931. Architect. Edwin Howard. Website. www .westportplayhouse .org. Westport Country Playhouse is a not-for-profit regional theater in Westport, Connecticut . It was founded in 1931 by Lawrence Langner, a New York theater producer. Langner remodeled an 1830s tannery with a Broadway-quality stage.
06000593 [1] Added to NRHP. November 6, 2006. The Westport Bank and Trust Company is a historic commercial building at 87 Post Road East in Westport, Connecticut. It is a two-story Classical Revival brick building, designed by local architect Charles E. Cutler and built in 1924. The bank was founded in 1852 by Horace Staples, a prominent local ...
Saugatuck River Bridge. / 41.12278°N 73.36944°W / 41.12278; -73.36944. The Saugatuck River Bridge is a bridge in Connecticut carrying Route 136 over the Saugatuck River in Westport. The bridge, built in 1884, is the oldest surviving movable bridge in Connecticut and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2]
Sherwood Island State Park is a public recreation area on the shore of Long Island Sound in the Greens Farms section of Westport, Connecticut. [3] The state park offers swimming, fishing, and other activities on 238 acres (96 ha) of beach, wetlands, and woodlands. Sherwood Island is numbered as Connecticut's first state park because state ...