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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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