Jeffrey and Karla Quinn are honoring Westport’s heritage by displaying a Westport Historical Society plaque identifying their 18 Bridge St. home as the Rufus Wakeman house which was built in 1884. Wakeman was First Selectman of Westport from 1884 to 1891 and served as state representative in 1895. After he died in 1916, the house was left to his son Austin Wakeman, who was also a First Selectman and a probate judge. The Quinns moved to Westport in July 2007, three years after their Italianate house received a Westport Historic District Preservation Award. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Bob Weingarten for WestportNow.com
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My personal thanks to all the owners, past and present, of this wonderful house. It is a splendid example of the Italiante style
and memorializes one of the founding fathers of Westport. Gorgeous!
Hardie Gramatky, my father and internationally known watercolorist, lived and worked in Westport for 35 years, and he so loved this house at 18 Bridge Street that he painted it in 1963. Dad called it “Red Door on Bridge Street” (because the door was red at the time) and WestportNow readers can see an image of the painting at http://www.californiawatercolor.com/paintings/hardie_gramatky/red_door_on_bridge_street. Thanks to everyone who has so lovingly lived in this home and preserved its charm!
Thjis was also the family home of Ned Dimes