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Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Today’s Westport Teardown: 8 Reimer Road
Today’s WestportNow teardown is 8 Reimer Road off of North Avenue. An application for a demolition permit is pending. The house sold last month for $1 million. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Monday, April 18, 2005
Today’s Westport Teardown: 2 Marvin Place
Today’s WestportNow teardown is 2 Marvin Place off of Baker Avenue. Demolition got underway this morning. The house, built in 1972, sold last month for $900,000. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Today’s Westport Teardown: 34 Edgewater Hillside
Today’s WestportNow teardown is 34 Edgewater Hillside off Hillspoint Road. Approval of a demolition permit is pending. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
No Delay Sought in Record $14.6 Million Teardown
The Westport Historic District Commission Tuesday night decided not to request a delay in approval of a demolition permit for 100-102 Beachside Ave. The property sold last month for $14.6 million the most expensive residential property ever sold in Westport. (See WestportNow March 30, 2005) A representative of the owner said about 80 percent of the 1929 main house will be demolished while two pink structures at the entrance that can be seen from the street will not be altered. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) WestportNow.com photo
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Today’s Westport Teardown: 11 Darbrook Road
Today’s WestportNow teardown is 11 Darbrook Road off of Compo Road North. An application has been submitted for a demolition permit for the house built in 1939. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Monday, April 11, 2005
Coalition Head: Abel Bradley House “Probably Will Be Saved”
Eleanor Dickey, head of a coalition trying to prevent demolition of the Abel Bradley House, told a Westport Public Library audience tonight that she now thinks that the house “probably will be saved,” most likely as part of a larger house on the property. She made the comment at a screening of a partially completed documentary on efforts to save the 200-year-old house but provided no further explanation for her cautious optimism. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) Larry Untermeyer for WestportNow.com
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Today’s Westport Teardown: 22 Tupelo Road
Today’s WestportNow teardown is 22 Tupelo Road off of Sturges Highway. The property sold this month for $890,000. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Today’s Westport Teardown: 22 Burr Farms Road
Today’s WestportNow teardown is 22 Burr Farms Road. The house, which sold in February for $1.2 million, was built in 1952. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Thursday, April 07, 2005
Today’s Westport Teardown: 351-361 Post Road West
Today’s WestportNow teardown is 351-361 Post Road West. The property, built in the 1950s by the late Westport builder Anthony Conte, includes now-empty retail stores and John’s Best Pizza as a stand-alone building. Conte’s son, Jim, will oversee reconstruction that will include a Peoples Bank and a new home for John’s Best, which has been there since 1966. The site once housed a motel, the White Birch Restaurant (see below), and a Greyhound Bus stop. The demolition application will be considered by the Historic District Commission at its April 12 meeting. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Flashback: Today’s Westport Teardown Years Ago
This 1960s postcard view shows the White Birch Restaurant on Post Road West now occupied by John’s Best Pizza. The property at 351-361 Post Road West is featured as today’s WestportNow teardown of the day. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) File photo
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Abel Bradley House Site May Contain Prehistoric Indian Remains
Preservationists trying to save the Abel Bradley house on the Westport-Fairfield border say there is an “excellent chance” of prehistoric Indian remains on the site. They say parts of a collection at the Fairfield Historical Society came from a site about a mile downstream from the Bradley House and “make it likely” that people who frequented the site also visited the Bradley House site. This link, they say, may be cause for an archeological site investigation under Westport zoning regulations. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) Contributed photo
Coming Down: 5 Pritchard Lane
The house at 5 Pritchard Lane, featured as WestportNow’s teardown of the day March 10, came down Tuesday. It sold last month for $1,220,000. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Monday, April 04, 2005
Today’s Westport Teardown: 82 Roseville Road
Today’s WestportNow teardown is 82 Roseville Road. An application for a demolition permit for the house, built in 1900, will come under review at a Westport Historic District Commission meeting April 12. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Today’s Westport Teardown: 18 Burr Farms Road
Today’s WestportNow teardown is 18 Burr Farms Road. An application for a demolition permit has been submitted. The home was built in 1954. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
Friday, April 01, 2005
Postscript to a Teardown: 10 Covlee Drive
This teardown at 10 Covlee Drive in the Saugatuck Shores area was featured on Friday’s WestportNow only hours before it was demolished. On hand for the take down Friday were owners Jackie and Howard Mason (2nd and 3rd l) and their mortgage banker, Henry Weeks, from the Westport National Bank (l)—he said he came because he had never seen a house demolished. Howard Mason lived around the corner at 3 Covlee Drive until 1983. He said he always wanted to return to Saugatuck Shores so he bought the one-story, 1,700-square-foot house in October 2004 for $820,000 and plans to replace it with a 3,400-square-foot Colonial. (CLICK TO ENLARGE ) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
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