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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.
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The Westport Library is a public library in the town of Westport, Connecticut, established on February 4, 1886, by members of the Westport Reading-Room and Library Association. [2]: 132. Morris Ketchum Jesup, born in 1830 to a country doctor, [2]: 73 amassed a fortune in the railroad business and became the benefactor of the library, donating ...
Added to NRHP. April 19, 1991. The Compo–Owenoke Historic District encompasses an early 20th-century summer resort beach community in Westport, Connecticut. Developed between 1910 and 1940, the Compo Beach area contains one of the largest assemblages of period resort architecture in Westport, and one of the best such collections in the region.
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 ...
Area code (s) 203/475. FIPS code. 09-83586. GNIS feature ID. 2805094 [2] Westport Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Westport, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It comprises the town center of Westport. Westport Village was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
Norwalk Islands. The Norwalk Islands are a chain of more than 25 islands amid partly submerged boulders, reefs and mudflats along a six-mile (10 km) stretch and mostly about a mile off the coast of Norwalk, Connecticut, and southwest Westport, Connecticut, in Long Island Sound. The islands are used for several different types of recreational ...
The Allen House is a historic house at 4 Burritt's Landing North in Westport, Connecticut. Built in 1958, it is the only known example in Westport of work by Chicago architect Roy Binkley, Jr., and is a good example of Bauhaus -style mid-20th Century Modern architecture. [ 2 ] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.