The former train station at 5 Depot Place in Bethel was built in 1899. It replaced an earlier station, erected at the same location in 1852, when it was on the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad. The original station had burned down in December of 1898. The second station continued in use until 1996, when a new station opened on Durant Avenue. For some years the former station became a bicycle shop and it is now home to Broken Symmetry Gastro Brewery. In 2019 the station’s old canopy, which extends along the tracks on the west side of the building, was restored.
Bethel’s Old Train Station (1899)