Newtown Borough Historic District

The Newtown Borough Historic District is a 100-acre (40 ha) historic district in the borough of Newtown in Newtown, Connecticut. There is a local historic district and an overlapping district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

Newtown Borough Historic District
Edmond Town Hall
Newtown Borough Historic District is located in Connecticut
Newtown Borough Historic District
Newtown Borough Historic District is located in the United States
Newtown Borough Historic District
LocationRoughly, Main St. from Hawley Rd. to Academy Ln., Newtown, Connecticut
Coordinates41°24′43″N 73°18′32″W
Area100 acres (40 ha)
Built1780
Architectmultiple
Architectural styleColonial, Italianate, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.96001458[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 20, 1996

The National Register district includes just a small part of the current borough, but about half of the original borough as it was first incorporated in 1824. The local historic district was smaller, but the Ram's Pasture and another property were added in 2009. The district has a governance structure.[2]

The district area has buildings dating from 1780 and includes the separately NRHP-listed Glover House and Caleb Baldwin Tavern.

In 1996, the district included 225 contributing buildings, tow other contributing structures, one contributing site, and two contributing objects.[1] The one contributing site in the district is the "Ram's Pasture", a meadow that was common land.[3]

Significant properties in the district include:

  • Glover House
  • Caleb Baldwin Tavern: The Baldwin Tavern is along the march route taken by French Army troops under General Rochambeau in 1781 on their march to Yorktown, Virginia.[4]
  • 17 Main Street, home of Arthur J. Smith, publisher of the Newtown Bee newspaper which began in 1877.[3]: 15–16 
  • Liberty Pole/Flagpole[3]: 16 
  • Soldiers and Sailors Monument
  • Edmond Town Hall
  • Matthew Curtiss House, 44 Main Street, a museum of the Newtown Historical Society[3]: 17 [5]
  • Gen. Daniel Baldwin House, 38 Main Street, a formal Georgian style building that contrasts to most of the other architecture (see photo #4)[3]: 17 
  • Cyrenius H. Booth Library

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Nancy K. Crevier (January 22, 2009). "Borough Historic District Welcomes New Properties". The Newtown Bee. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011.
  3. Bruce Clouette and Hoang Tinh (November 9, 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Newtown Borough Historic District". National Park Service. and Accompanying 20 photos, from 1995 (captions on page 23 of text document)
  4. Clouette, Bruce (February 1, 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Caleb Baldwin Tavern". National Park Service. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  5. "Newtown Historical Society".
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