Strickland Road Historic District

	Strickland Road Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
Location	19-47 Strickland Rd., Cos Cob, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°2′6″N 73°36′3″W / 41.03500°N 73.60083°W
Area	9 acres (3.6 ha)
Architectural style	Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian, Colonial
NRHP reference No.	77001625
Added to NRHP	March 22, 1990

The Strickland Road Historic District of

contributing buildings in the district. Most of the buildings are wood-frame structures between one and three stories in height; the notable exceptions are two of the later houses, which are Tudor Revival in style and have brick and stucco exteriors.^[2]

The Cos Cob area was settled in the 17th century as a colonial maritime community, at first by Dutch settlers (as part of New Netherland) and later by English settlers. The Strickland Road area was known as the Lower Landing, and flourished in the 18th century, particularly through the efforts of David Bush, the Dutch builder of the Bush-Holley House. It was primarily a transportation center, with packet boats serving other area ports, and some of the finer houses on Strickland Road were built by sea captains. The area declined in importance after the packet boats were supplanted by the railroad in the mid-19th century, and became a residential enclave. Its last major industrial site, a tidal grist mill, burned in 1899. Most of the buildings in the district date to the early 20th century, in the Bungalow and Tudor Revival styles popular at that time.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b Jan Cunningham (June 28, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Strickland Road Historic District". National Park Service. and Accompanying 14 photos, from 1989 (see photo captions page 13 of text document)

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[NRHP-2] Jan Cunningham (June 28, 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Strickland Road Historic District". National Park Service. and Accompanying 14 photos, from 1989 (see photo captions page 13 of text document)

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