Strickland Road Historic District
The Strickland Road Historic District of Greenwich, Connecticut is a 9-acre (3.6 ha) historic district that was listed on the U.S.
The Strickland Road Historic District of Greenwich, Connecticut is a 9-acre (3.6 ha) historic district that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The district extends along Strickland Road in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, between its junction River Road in the south, to just north of its junction with Loughlin Road in the north. It represents a well-preserved cross-section of residential architecture dating coverint a 200-year period, from about 1740 to 1934. It includes the c. 1730 Bush-Holley House, a historic house museum which is a National Historic Landmark for it role in the Cos Cob art colony. There are 28 primary contributing buildings in the district. Most of the buildings are wood-frame structures between one and three stories in height; the notable exceptions are two of the later houses, which are Tudor Revival in style and have brick and stucco exteriors.
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Worth seeing in and around Strickland Road Historic District
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Bruce Museum
The Bruce Museum is an art, science and natural history museum located in Greenwich, Connecticut. The Bruce's main building sits on a hill in a downtown park, and its tower can be easily seen by drivers passing by on Interstate 95.
2.6 km · museum in Greenwich, Connecticut · Wikipedia - 02Bowman Observatory
Bowman Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Greenwich, Connecticut Board of Education. Members of The Astronomical Society of Greenwich staff the observatory under the auspices of the Board's Continuing Education Department.
1.7 km · astronomical observatory · Wikipedia - 03Bush-Holley House
The Bush-Holley House is a National Historic Landmark and historic house museum at 39 Strickland Road in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut. It was constructed circa 1730 and in the late nineteenth century was a boarding house and the center of the Cos Cob Art Colony, Connecticut's first art colony.
600 m · historic house in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 04Putnam Cemetery
Putnam Cemetery is a non-sectarian cemetery located at 35 Parsonage Road in Greenwich, Connecticut. It is affiliated with adjacent Saint Mary's Cemetery at 399 North Street, which is a Catholic cemetery; the two cemeteries share the same office.
3 km · cemetery in Greenwich, Connecticut · Wikipedia - 05Daycroft School
The Daycroft School was a co-educational private boarding school founded in 1928. Initially located at a private home in Darien, Connecticut, it relocated to Stamford in 1935, and in 1963, to the neighboring town of Greenwich, Connecticut.
3 km · university-preparatory school in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 06Greenwich Library
Greenwich Library is the main library in the Greenwich library system of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. The Greenwich Library system consists of the Main Library and its Byram Shubert, Perrot, and Cos Cob branches.
2.5 km · public library in Greenwich, CT · Wikipedia - 07Mianus River Bridge
The Mianus River Bridge is a span that carries Interstate 95 over the Mianus River, between Cos Cob and Riverside, Connecticut. It is the second bridge on the site.
800 m · bridge in United States of America · Wikipedia - 08Putnam Cottage
Putnam Cottage was also known as Knapp Tavern during the American Revolution. It is located at 243 East Putnam Avenue, on the former route of the Boston Post Road, in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1.6 km · house in Connecticut, United States of America · Wikipedia - 09Riverside Avenue Bridge
The Riverside Avenue Bridge is the only cast-iron bridge in Connecticut and one of a small number still in use in the United States. It carries Riverside Avenue over the New Haven Line railroad tracks in the Riverside section of Greenwich, Connecticut.
1.1 km · bridge in United States of America · Wikipedia - 10United States Post Office
The United States Post Office is a former post office building at 310 Greenwich Avenue in downtown Greenwich, Connecticut. Built in 1915, it is a good example of Classical Revival architecture, with a distinctive plan predating the Postal Service's standardization of buildings.
2.4 km · government building in Greenwich, Connecticut · Wikipedia
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Getting to Strickland Road Historic District
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 37 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 46 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 61 km
- Stations
- Old Greenwich station, 2.8 km · Cos Cob station, 500 m · Greenwich station, 2.4 km · Riverside station, 1.2 km · Carmel Academy, 2.9 km
- New York → Strickland Road Historic District50 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · $4.5–6
- Newark → Strickland Road Historic District59 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · $6–8
- Hartford → Strickland Road Historic District111 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · $10–14
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