| 词条 | Putnam Hill Historic District |
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| name = Putnam Hill Historic District | nrhp_type = hd | nocat = yes | image = Second Congregational Church, Greenwich, Connecticut.jpg | caption = | location= U.S. 1, Greenwich, Connecticut | coordinates = {{coord|41|2|11|N|73|37|9|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Connecticut#USA | built = {{start date|1830}} | architect = Vaux, Calvert; Multiple | architecture = Mid 19th Century Revival, Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian | added = August 24, 1979 | area = {{convert|36|acre|ha}} | governing_body = Local | refnum = 79002657[1] }} The Putnam Hill Historic District encompasses a former town center of Greenwich, Connecticut. Located on United States Route 1 between Millbank Avenue and Old Church Road, the district includes the churches of two historic congregations, a former tavern, and a collection of fine mid-Victorian residential architecture. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1] Description and historyGreenwich's Putnam Hill area became a secondary center to the town (after Old Greenwich) at least as early as 1702, when the Second Congregational Church was located there. It was also home to Greenwich's town hall between 1825 and 1874, which was located where the town's Civil War memorial now stands. During the American Revolutionary War it was the scene of an escape of Continental Army General Israel Putnam from surrounding British forces by riding his horse down the steep hill from the Putnam Cottage, a feat that gave the area its present name. The Putnam Cottage, formerly Knapp's Tavern, was built about 1700, and is now a museum. In the years after the American Civil War, the area developed as a fashionable residential area, with several fine period residences surviving, including the Chateauesque Tomes-Higgins House, which was designed by architect Calvert Vaux. It was also where Boss Tweed had his country estate.[3] The district is basically linear in extent, running from Millbank Drive in the west to Old Church Road in the east. The district has 21 contributing buildings, most of which are residential. Other features of the district are two small parks, a stone marker placed by the DAR commemorating Putnam's ride, and the gateway to the former Jeremiah Millbank estate, which is the only surviving element of the Tweed estate.[1][2] See also
References1. ^1 2 {{NRISref|2009a}} {{Greenwich, Connecticut}}{{National Register of Historic Places}}2. ^1 {{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=79002657}} |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Putnam Hill Historic District / Putnam Hill National Register District |date=October 1978 |author=Charles W. Brilvitch |publisher=National Park Service}} and {{NRHP url|id=79002657|title=Accompanying 13 photos|photos=y}} 5 : National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut|Georgian architecture in Connecticut|Historic districts in Fairfield County, Connecticut|Greenwich, Connecticut|Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut |
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