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Putnam Hill Historic District

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Architect
  
Vaux,Calvert; Multiple

Area
  
15 ha

Added to NRHP
  
24 August 1979

NRHP Reference #
  
79002657

Year built
  
1830

Putnam Hill Historic District

Location
  
U.S. 1, Greenwich, Connecticut

Architectural style
  
Mid 19th Century Revival, Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian

The Putnam Hill Historic District in Greenwich, Connecticut is a 36-acre (15 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It encompasses a historic village center that arose within the town in the early 18th century, but is now characterized mostly by late 19th century Victorian architecture. The district has 21 contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and two other contributing structures.

Selected significant buildings in the district include:

  • the Putnam Cottage, a former 18th-century tavern
  • Second Congregational Church, 1856, designed by architect Leopold Eidlitz, with a 220-foot spire (see accompanying (photo #1)
  • Solomon Meade House, 1858, an Italianate house (photo #2)
  • Dr. Hyde House, c. 1906 (photo #3)
  • Tomes-Higgins House, 1861, a large Second Empire style building designed by Calvert Vaux, owned by the nearby Episcopal church and used as its rectory.
  • YWCA, 1975, the local branch of the Young Women's Christian Association, built in the brutalist style

    • References

    Putnam Hill Historic District Wikipedia
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