An application is in process to acquire a permit to demolish the house at 5 Forest Drive off Old Road. Built in 1952, the one-story ranch has 1,656 square feet and is situated on a 1.05-acre property. It changed ownership in October 2008 for $825,000. Because the house was built more than 50 years ago, the application process requires review by the Westport Historic District Commission. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com

Augie and Marcia Ciambriello are honoring Westport’s heritage by displaying a Westport Historical Society plaque identifying their home at 7 Sunrise Road as the Saugatuck Methodist Church parsonage which was built in c.1885.  Their home was built by Martin Doscher in c.1855 at Church and Saugatuck Avenues and deeded to the Saugatuck Methodist Church in 1894. It was used as the parsonage by the church until 1940s when it was moved to its current location in 1952 for the Ciambriello family. The house has been in the Ciambriello family since 1952 owned initially by Augie and Marcia’s grandparents, then their parent and, since 1997, by Augie and Marcia themselves. They have lived in Westport all their lives and say they “intend to stay.”  (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Bob Weingarten for WestportNow.com

Debra Belanger is honoring Westport’s heritage by displaying a Westport Historical Society plaque identifying her home at 7 Maple Ave. South as the Samuel T. Jennings house which was built c.1858. The Jennings house was initially built at Post Road East and Maple Avenue South but moved sometime prior to 1952 to its current location when the Greens Farms Shell Service Center was built. Belanger purchased the house in 2006 and was told that “it was built in 1930” but during renovations she found beams and wide planked floors which indicated an early date. The early date of c.1858 was discovered during research by the Westport Historical Society.  Belanger said that it was an “absolute pleasure and a rich learning experience to restore this house.” (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Bob Weingarten for WestportNow.com

Radio talk show host Don Imus has put his Westport waterfront property on Beachside Avenue on the market for $30 million—the same price he briefly asked almost four years ago before changing his mind about the sale.
The Beachside Avenue home has 10,000 square feet and six bedrooms. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) FineHomesCT.com photo

The property includes a 10,000-square foot white clapboard Georgian Revival main house with six bedrooms as well as a new two-bedroom guest house and a renovated two-bedroom gate house, according to the listing by Darlene Letersky of Fine Homes Connecticut.

There are 10 garage spaces and 215 feet of private beach. Taxes on the property are almost $132,000 a year.

Imus, 68, bought the property in 1997 for $4.6 million and completed his home in 2000, according to the listing. He briefly listed the home in 2005 for the same price.