Danbury

Buildings Index

Deer Hill Avenue
164 First Congregational Church of Danbury (1909)

Ives Street
1 (1893)
5 Old Fire Department Headquarters (1884)

Library Place
5-15 Seifert Armory (1891)

Library Street
24-26 Swedish Emanuel Congregational Church – New Bethel Church of God in Christ (1908)

Locust Avenue
26 Locust Avenue School (1896)

Main Street
43 John Rider House (1785)
43 John Dodd Hat Shop (1790)
71 Fairfield County Courthouse (1899)
88 St. Peter Convent (1895)
98 St. Peter School (1885)
104 St. Peter Rectory (1891)
119 St. Peter Church (1875)
111 Marshall Building (1890)
129 Sears, Roebuck & Co. – Salvation Army (1929)
161-169 Martha Apartments (1926) & Palace Theater (1928)
181-183 F. A. Hull Building (1907)
220 Savings Bank of Danbury (1908)
226-228 Union Savings Bank (1887)
234 City Trust Building (1912)
238 Darragan Building (1891)
240-242 Larue Building (1891)
248 Danbury National Bank – Thomas Settle Building (1887)
253-255 Crofut Block (1876)
256 Old Danbury Library – Danbury Music Center (1878)
265 Danbury Post Office (1916)
288 Danbury News Building (1873/1893)

Mountainville Avenue
5 Charles Ives Birthplace (1780)

Robinson Avenue
8 St. Joseph Church (1905)

Spring Street
21 John T. Earle House (1853)

West Street
18-20 Odd Fellows Hall – Ecuadorian Civic Center of Greater Danbury (1911)
25 St. James Episcopal Church, Danbury (1867)
32 West Street Congregational Church – Lighthouse Ministries (1865)
54 Danbury Armory (1913)
71 Central Christian Church (1936)

White Street
86-90 Meeker’s Hardware (1883)
120 Danbury Railway Museum (1903)
181 Western Connecticut State University – White Hall (1925)
181 Western Connecticut State University – Fairfield Hall (1917)
181 Western Connecticut State University – Old Main (1904)

Links

Danbury Museum & Historical Society
https://danburymuseum.org/

Danbury Railway Museum
http://www.danburyrailwaymuseum.org/

Tarrywile Park & Mansion
http://tarrywile.com/

Books

History of the Hatting Trade in Danbury, Conn: From Its Commencement in 1780 to the Present Time. With a Mercantile and Manufacturing Business Directory (1860), by W. H. Francis

Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a Remarkable People, Under More Remarkable Circumstances, and Chronicled in a Most Remarkable Manner (1873), by James M. Bailey

The Danbury News Man’s Almanac, and Other Tales (1874), by J.M. Bailey

They All Do it: Or, Mr. Miggs of Danbury and His Neighbors (1877), by J.M. Bailry

The Danbury Boom!: With a Full Account of Mrs. Cobleigh’s Action Therein! Together with Many Other Interesting Phases in the Social and Domestic History of that Remarkable Village (1880), by James Montgomery Bailey

History of Danbury, Conn., 1684-1896 (1896), from notes and manuscript left by James Montgomery Bailey; compiled with additions by Susan Benedict Hill

Danbury and Our Boys in the World War (1923)