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Davenport's home located on Main and New Summer Streets. Photo in Gillespie's "Picturesque Stamford," pg. 96. Description on back of photo: " The home of Abraham Davenport as it looked in the nineties (1890s) when it stood on the east side of New…

Plumbing/home furnishing store on Atlantic Street. Photo taken 1890-early 1900s. Description: "... we see the successors to Haight and Holmes, Louis S. Begent and Albert Lynch. Louis S. Begent, standing at center served as Stamford's Postmaster from…

Etching of the Collender billiard table warehouse in Stamford, CT done in 1876. Other Warerooms: 738 Broadway, New York

Description on back of photo: "This house was purchased by The Ferguson Library in the summer of 1889 and fitted for permanent use. The library moved from here to its new building, corner of Broad and Bedford Streets, September 1911. Date of picture…

Photographs and article from Harper's Weekly, 17 March 1866. Bottom row pictures (left to right): "Fitch's Home-School Room"

House located at Sound View, Stamford, Conn. 1851/2 Description given with photograph: "The pictures were selected from photograph albums belonging to Edward Candee Scofield, Myrle Ave. Stamford, and reproduced from negatives which he loaned to the…

This is a photograph of Main Street circa 1880. The Union House is pictured in the foreground. Description: " One of Stamford's early hotels, the Union House, was built by Thomas P. Dixon, architect and master builder, in 1844. Subsequently known as…

The Methodist Episcopal Church at its original location on River and Main St. - Photograph from the Gillespie collection in "Picturesque Stamford," pg. 178. Description with photo: " The Methodist Church facing east toward West Park, at the corner of…

Description on back of photo: "The Old Methodist Parsonage, once the home of Lt. Governor Charles Hawley, for whom it was built in the thirties (1830's) by Thomas P. Dixon. It was replaced by the present parsonage in the late 1890's. Dixon in his…

Located on Case Farm