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Greenfield Hill Historic District

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NRHP Reference #
  
71000899

Year built
  
1750

Area
  
71 ha

Added to NRHP
  
11 March 1971

Greenfield Hill Historic District

Location
  
Roughly bounded by the Merritt Parkway, Burr Street., Redding Rd., Hulls Farm Rd and Hill Farm Rd., Greenfield Hill, Connecticut

The Greenfield Hill Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1971.

It includes 27 contributing buildings over 175 acres (71 ha) in the neighborhood of Greenfield Hill, Connecticut.

It includes 38 principal houses or structures and 20 secondary structures, and a windmill. The district includes small streets around the Greenfield Hill Green but has a highly irregular shape extending south. It is drawn to include older, historic homes and to exclude newer, less-historic properties to the north of the green and around the listed area.

The district includes the Bronson Windmill, which is separately NRHP-listed.

The district, along with Southport Historic District and Fairfield Historic District is somewhat governed by Fairfield's Historic District Commission.

Significant properties in the district include:

  • Timothy Dwight Park, site of historic academy of Timothy Dwight IV
  • Old Cemetery on Bronson
  • 1650 Meetinghouse Lane, originally a saltbox home from c. 1750 that was later remodeled extensively. Associated with Abraham Baldwin and with Joel Barlow
  • Old Cemetery, on Bronson Road
  • 105 Meetinghouse Lane, owned by Zalmon Bradley
  • Greenfield Hill Congregational Church
  • "Old Salt Box at 1081 Hillside", a saltbox structure that was a shop, a home, and in which the academy was started
  • 3244 Bronson Road
  • 3171 Bronson Road, gambrel-roofed
  • 2829 Bronson Road, which served during 1901-15 as clubhouse of Greenfield Hill Country Club, but which also is associated with agriculture shows, including one showing 52 oxen in 1906, that illustrated agricultural basis of the area
  • 55 Meetinghouse Lane
  • 3105 Bronson Road, the windmill

    • References

    Greenfield Hill Historic District Wikipedia
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