Newtown Borough Historic District
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The Newtown Borough Historic District is a 40 -acre heritage listed area in the Borough of Newtown within the Town of Newtown in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. For area of the historic district includes buildings, many dating back from the 1780s. In him the Glover House and Caleb Baldwin Tavern, both of which are entered separately in the NRHP are.
1996 included the District 225 contributing buildings, two other contributing buildings, one site and two contributing objects. Most recently, the district has been extended by a local statute in 2009.
When contributing site is a known as Ram 's Pasture Meadow, a former commons.
Among the significant buildings and structures in the district include:
- Glover House
- Caleb Baldwin Tavern: The inn is on the march route, who in 1781 took the troops of the French military leader Rochambeau on their way to the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia in 1782 and on their return from there. The two and a half story house was built in 1763. It is an example of the traditional architecture of New England of the 18th century and has preserved some construction and style elements from that period.
- 17 Main Street, home of Arthur J. Smith, the original publisher of the newspaper Newtown Bee, published since 1877 :15 -16
- Liberty Pole / Flagpole: 16
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument
- Edmond Town Hall
- Matthew Curtiss House, 44 Main Street, a museum of the Newtown Historical Society: 17
- Gene. Daniel Baldwin House, 38 Main Street, a formal Georgian building, which contrasts to most other buildings in the district: 17
- Cyrenius H. Booth Library