Preservation Award Winner: 8 Colonial Road

Among the nine winners of the Westport Historic District Commission 2012 Preservation Awards scheduled to be presented in a Town Hall ceremony at 7 p.m. on Monday is the house at 8 Colonial Road. The HDC said the award is being given in recognition of the reconstruction of the house, c. 1927, with sensitivity to the mass and scale of the original streetscape of the historic Greens Farms Congregational Church neighborhood. It is an example of how a small modest house can be successfully preserved, expanded and adapted to the needs of a modern family on a small parcel of land, the HDC said. Rather than being demolished and replaced with a new oversized house, the owner demonstrated sensitivity to the scale of the existing neighborhood. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com