Stamford National Bank, Town Hall, Balcon's Photographic Studio are visible from Charles Lyman Hoyt Collection (Sherwood) Description on back of picture: West Main Street looking east from the old Davenport house. On the right is the first home of…
Photograph of Webb's Tavern from Gillespie's "Picturesque Stamford," pg. 128. George Washington stopped at the tavern for breakfast on one of his travels. See link for more information. http://www.stamfordhistory.org/ps_civilwar.htm
Description taken from back of photo: "Webb's Tavern, also known as the 'Old Washington House' from the tradition that Washington stopped here during one or more of his trips to New England. In front of this tavern in 1775, the Stamford patriots…
This photograph, taken in 1889, is of two men sitting in a horse-drawn wagon on Main Street. They are pictured in front of Tobias Bernhardt Dry Goods Store, located on Seeley (later Miller) Block.
A view of the Universalist Church located at the corner of Forest and Prospect Streets. The church is now known as The Unitarian Universalist Society in Stamford.
This is a photograph is representative of the trolley system established by the city of Stamford in the 1930s. The Quintard Building and the First National Bank visible in the background of the image of a trolley car in Atlantic Square. 1936. Used as…