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href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Main_Street_Historic_District_(Danbury,_Connecticut)&params=41_23_41_N_73_27_10_W_type:landmark_region:US-CT"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">41°23′41″N</span> <span class="longitude">73°27′10″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">41.39472°N 73.45278°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">41.39472; -73.45278</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Area</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">47 acres (19 ha).<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Built</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">1785–1931</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Architect</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">multiple</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Architectural style</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">multiple, primarily <a href="/wiki/Italianate_architecture" title="Italianate architecture">Italianate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Romanesque_Revival_architecture" title="Romanesque Revival architecture">Romanesque</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">NRHP reference <abbr title="number">No.</abbr></th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/83003508">83003508</a><sup id="cite_ref-nris_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nris-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:bold; border: 0;">Added to NRHP</th><td class="infobox-data" style="border: 0;">November 29, 1983</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Main Street Historic District</b> in <a href="/wiki/Danbury,_Connecticut" title="Danbury, Connecticut">Danbury</a>, Connecticut, United States, is the oldest section of that city, at its geographical center. It has long been the city's commercial core and downtown. Its 132 buildings, 97 of which are considered <a href="/wiki/Contributing_property" title="Contributing property">contributing properties</a>, include government buildings, churches, commercial establishments and residences, all in a variety of <a href="/wiki/Architectural_style" title="Architectural style">architectural styles</a> from the late 18th century to the early 20th. It is the only major industrial downtown of its size in Connecticut not to have developed around either port facilities or a water power site.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It was called Town Street when Danbury was first settled in the late 17th century. For over a century afterwards the "long, straggling street" was synonymous with Danbury, to the point that farmers in the area referred to it as Danbury Street. The <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">Revolutionary War</a> in that area of Connecticut began in the future district, where a marker indicates the first shot fired at the British.<sup id="cite_ref-first_shot_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-first_shot-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the city began growing toward the mid-19th century, its development was shaped by the arrival of the railroads, which helped the city's hatmakers dominate their industry. </p><p>In the mid-20th century the area began to decline. Hats became less popular after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, causing the hat factories to close. The floods of 1955 took a toll, with some businesses choosing not to rebuild. Other businesses left later for a new <a href="/wiki/Shopping_mall" title="Shopping mall">shopping mall</a> elsewhere in the city. Main Street was largely spared the demolition that accompanied <a href="/wiki/Urban_renewal" title="Urban renewal">urban renewal</a> elsewhere in the country, and it was recognized as the city's only <a href="/wiki/Historic_district_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Historic district (United States)">historic district</a> and listed on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a> in 1983. Its <a href="/wiki/Contributing_property" title="Contributing property">contributing properties</a>, ranging from the 1780s to the 1930s, reflects a diversity of uses and <a href="/wiki/Architectural_style" title="Architectural style">styles</a> with a heavy concentration of the <a href="/wiki/Italianate_architecture" title="Italianate architecture">Italianate</a> commercial architecture of the late 19th century. </p><p>Today, downtown Danbury is once again thriving due to a variety of factors. Businesses formed a special taxing district to raise money for infrastructure maintenance and improvement, and the city used state grants to build popular attractions near downtown like a <a href="/wiki/Danbury_Railway_Museum" title="Danbury Railway Museum">rail museum</a> and <a href="/wiki/Danbury_Ice_Arena" title="Danbury Ice Arena">ice arena</a>. Danbury's population has also increased in the late 20th century as it became a popular <a href="/wiki/Exurb" title="Exurb">exurban</a> enclave for <a href="/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area" title="New York metropolitan area">New York metropolitan area</a> commuters, and Latin American <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Immigration to the United States">immigrants</a> have settled in and established businesses along Main Street despite tensions with the city's mayor. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Street_Historic_District_(Danbury,_Connecticut)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The district follows a three-quarter–mile (1.21 km) section of Main Street (<a href="/wiki/State_highway" title="State highway">state highway</a> <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Route_53" title="Connecticut Route 53">CT 53</a>) from 34 and 43 Main (the <a href="/wiki/John_Rider_House" title="John Rider House">John Rider House</a>, now the city's historical museum) at the south end to White Street at the north. At both ends there are distinct changes—a shift to more modern construction at the south end and the <a href="/wiki/Flood_control" class="mw-redirect" title="Flood control">flood control</a> measures along the <a href="/wiki/Still_River_(Housatonic_River)" class="mw-redirect" title="Still River (Housatonic River)">Still River</a> at the north—that distinguish the district from adjacent areas. Portions of nine side streets are included, varying from most of the adjacent blocks of Elm, Keeler, West and White streets and Library Place to single properties on Boughton Street and Post Office Place. The entire Wooster Street Cemetery is within the district as well. At the northeast corner, Ives Street is also included to Delay Place and Railroad Street. The geographic center of Danbury is close to 238 Main Street. The terrain slopes slightly from south to north along the Still's <a href="/wiki/Flood_plain" class="mw-redirect" title="Flood plain">flood plain</a>, but appears level.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To the north Main Street continues to be predominantly commercial, all the way to <a href="/wiki/Interstate_84_in_Connecticut" title="Interstate 84 in Connecticut">Interstate 84</a> (also, at that point, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_6_in_Connecticut" title="U.S. Route 6 in Connecticut">US 6</a>/<a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_7_in_Connecticut" title="U.S. Route 7 in Connecticut">7</a>/<a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_202_in_Connecticut" title="U.S. Route 202 in Connecticut">202</a>) a mile (1.6 km) north. Large-scale residential development mixes with the commercial development south of the district, to where Route 53 leaves to follow South Street towards <a href="/wiki/Bethel,_Connecticut" title="Bethel, Connecticut">Bethel</a>. East downtown continues a few blocks to the railroad tracks and the <a href="/wiki/Danbury_(Metro-North_station)" class="mw-redirect" title="Danbury (Metro-North station)">train station</a>), with a small residential neighborhood intervening between downtown and <a href="/wiki/Western_Connecticut_State_University" title="Western Connecticut State University">Western Connecticut State University</a>. Residential neighborhoods are to the west.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The district is a heavily developed urban core with mostly commercial buildings, predominantly two-story structures fronting on Main Street, some <a href="/wiki/Mixed-use_development" title="Mixed-use development">mixed use</a> with apartments on the upper stories. Among them are some government buildings such as the post office and courthouse and churches such as St. Peter's, whose 175-foot (53 m) spire dominates the city's skyline. Single- and multiple-unit residential properties are generally on the side streets. In addition to the parking lots, there is some <a href="/wiki/Urban_open_space" class="mw-redirect" title="Urban open space">open space</a>, most significantly Elmwood Park, in the center of from roughly north of Park Place to south of Center Street. From there to the district's north end it continues as a narrow planted median strip.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Rider_House.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A light blue wooden house with a pointed gray roof, two white chimneys and pale cream-colored window and door trim" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/John_Rider_House.jpg/200px-John_Rider_House.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/John_Rider_House.jpg/300px-John_Rider_House.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/John_Rider_House.jpg/400px-John_Rider_House.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1886" data-file-height="1508" /></a><figcaption>John Rider House, ca. 1785</figcaption></figure> <p>Within the district's 47-acre (19 ha) area are 132 properties, 97 of which are <a href="/wiki/Contributing_property" title="Contributing property">contributing</a> to the district's historic character. One, the <a href="/wiki/John_Rider_House" title="John Rider House">John Rider House</a>, currently used as a local historical museum, is also listed on the Register individually. The <a href="/wiki/Architectural_style" title="Architectural style">architectural styles</a> represented run from the <a href="/wiki/Georgian_architecture" title="Georgian architecture">Georgian</a> houses contemporary with the Riders near the south end of the district, its oldest area, to <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Revival_architecture" title="Colonial Revival architecture">Colonial Revival</a> and <a href="/wiki/Modern_architecture" title="Modern architecture">Modernist</a> buildings near its north end, reflecting the business district's expansion in that direction over the course of that time. There are also several historical monuments considered contributing.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Street_Historic_District_(Danbury,_Connecticut)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For the first century and a half of its existence, Danbury and Main Street were one and the same. The arrival of the railroads in the mid-19th century and the growth of the city's hatmaking industry began to expand it beyond Main's immediate neighborhood, and by the end of the century what had been a small village was a city with Main Street as its civic and commercial core. </p><p>Another mode of transportation, the automobile, began having an adverse effect on Main Street in the 20th century, routing traffic away from it and making outlying areas more commercially viable and accessible. Revitalization measures by the city have offset this effect somewhat, as has the area's attractiveness to immigrants from Latin America. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1684–1800:_Settlement"><span id="1684.E2.80.931800:_Settlement"></span>1684–1800: Settlement</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Street_Historic_District_(Danbury,_Connecticut)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1684–1800: Settlement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Danbury began with Main Street. The first eight families who moved up from <a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">Norwalk</a> to start an agricultural community on the frontier in 1684 called it Town Street. Their success led to the subsequent establishment of smaller communities like <a href="/wiki/New_Milford,_Connecticut" title="New Milford, Connecticut">New Milford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Newtown,_Connecticut" title="Newtown, Connecticut">Newtown</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ridgefield,_Connecticut" title="Ridgefield, Connecticut">Ridgefield</a> on the periphery of the new community. Danbury's location at the junction of the main north–south route up the <a href="/wiki/Housatonic_River" title="Housatonic River">Housatonic</a> valley and the east–west route coming into Connecticut from New York's <a href="/wiki/Hudson_Valley" title="Hudson Valley">Hudson Valley</a> to the west helped it prosper further. For these early settlers, the center of community life was the <a href="/wiki/Congregational_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregational church">Congregationalist</a> church they built on what is now the site of the Wooster Street cemetery.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most of the early buildings were destroyed in a British raid during 1777. During the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">Revolutionary War</a> Danbury was a supply depot for the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a> due to its location. An army hospital was also established, and local artificers manufactured nails, wagons, shoes and harnesses for military use.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shortly after <a href="/wiki/American_independence" class="mw-redirect" title="American independence">independence</a>, in 1784, Danbury was designated a half-shire town, essentially sharing <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a> functions with <a href="/wiki/Fairfield,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield, Connecticut">Fairfield</a>. The Congregationalist church that had been the village's first center moved north a few blocks to the West Street corner in 1785, spurring some development there as it remained the center of community life. In 1792, the first courthouse and jail were built on the sites occupied by the modern buildings today.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1801–1851:_Early_industrialization"><span id="1801.E2.80.931851:_Early_industrialization"></span>1801–1851: Early industrialization</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Street_Historic_District_(Danbury,_Connecticut)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1801–1851: Early industrialization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Postwar rebuilding led to the establishment of the industries that made Danbury prosperous for over a century. Hatmaking had existed there even before the Revolution, but in the decades afterwards the village led the country in the field. By 1800 its hatters were producing 20,000 annually. They established retail outlets in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">Southern states</a>, and were followed by local makers of boots, shoes, saddles and horn combs. Some buildings from this period remain, such as the 1790 John Dodd shop now on the Rider House museum property, the oldest extant commercial building in the city.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1801 the land that is now Elmwood Park was donated to the village for use as a <a href="/wiki/Common_land" title="Common land">town common</a>. It would be used as a drilling area for the local <a href="/wiki/Militia_(United_States)" title="Militia (United States)">militia</a> and the early fairs of the <a href="/wiki/Fairfield_County,_Connecticut" title="Fairfield County, Connecticut">Fairfield County</a> Agricultural Society, which later became <a href="/wiki/Danbury_Fair" title="Danbury Fair">Danbury Fair</a>. Today's side streets had existed since the late 18th century, but Danbury during this period was still seen by outsiders as "...built principally upon one street, which for more than a mile exhibits an almost continued range of buildings, consisting of dwelling houses, mercantile stores, hat factories, mechanic shops and churches." Farmers who came into town referred to it as Danbury Street.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1822, the state granted <a href="/wiki/Borough_(Connecticut)" title="Borough (Connecticut)">borough</a> status to Main Street and the area around it. That allowed it to form fire companies and develop a <a href="/wiki/Water_supply_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Water supply system">water supply system</a>. Growth continued, and a branch of the Fairfield County Bank was opened in 1826. Two years later a new jail was built on the same site as the current former jail building. In 1829 the last parcel belonging to the Congregational church, a large lot on the west side of the common, was sold and <a href="/wiki/Land_subdivision" class="mw-redirect" title="Land subdivision">subdivided</a> to pay a departing minister. Large double houses, such as 101–103 and 105–107 Main, were built on the land in the following decade. A <a href="/wiki/Universalism" title="Universalism">Universalist</a> church was built on the common in 1833. The Fry & Gregory saddle factory, built in 1836 at 68 Main Street, is one of the extant buildings exemplifying commercial activity during this period.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first local bank, the Savings Bank of Danbury, was established by local businessmen in the home of treasurer George Ives, grandfather of composer <a href="/wiki/Charles_Ives" title="Charles Ives">Charles Ives</a>, on Main Street. Soon after, downtown would reach its modern extent in 1852 with the coming of the <a href="/wiki/Danbury_and_Norwalk_Railroad" title="Danbury and Norwalk Railroad">Danbury and Norwalk Railroad</a>. The landowners of northern Main Street, also stockholders in the railroad, had its passenger depot built at the present location of the post office, helping to increase the value of their land and businesses. A promised secondary depot at the common was never built, and the northern Main Street landowners also defeated a proposal to expand the common into a "central park". The landowners and businessmen of southern Main Street spent their own money to remake the common into Elmwood Park, planting it with elm trees and a hay crop.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1851–1945:_Industrial_peak"><span id="1851.E2.80.931945:_Industrial_peak"></span>1851–1945: Industrial peak</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Street_Historic_District_(Danbury,_Connecticut)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 1851–1945: Industrial peak"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The railroads brought significant change to downtown. During the 1850s the first multi-story brick commercial blocks were erected downtown, starting with Phineas Crosby's Block at 225–229 Main Street. In 1852 it was followed by the Benedict and Nichols Building at 191–193 Main. Its cofounder David Nichols had already built the borough's first grocery 1838, and later served as a <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_state_legislature" class="mw-redirect" title="Connecticut state legislature">state legislator</a> and <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_State_Treasurer" title="Connecticut State Treasurer">state treasurer</a>. Large steam-powered hat factories were built, bringing new workers to Danbury. In addition to internal migrants from the rural towns in the area, they were <a href="/wiki/English_American" class="mw-redirect" title="English American">English</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irish_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish American">Irish</a> and <a href="/wiki/German_American" class="mw-redirect" title="German American">German</a> <a href="/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Immigration to the United States">immigrants</a>. The combined town and borough population nearly doubled between <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census,_1850" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Census, 1850">1850</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census,_1860" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Census, 1860">1860</a>, even though Bethel became a separate town during that time. In 1851 the Irish immigrants bought the Universalist Church on the common for their growing St. Peter's church;<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> moving to a newer structure when it was <a href="/wiki/Consecration" class="mw-redirect" title="Consecration">consecrated</a> in 1876.<sup id="cite_ref-Bailey_Danbury_history_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bailey_Danbury_history-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a result, Main Street became more commercial. The hatters were skilled workers who could afford to buy or even build their own homes rather than live in crowded <a href="/wiki/Tenement" title="Tenement">tenements</a>, and found the side streets to the west ideal for this purpose. To the east of Main commercial development continued, with the hat factories concentrated in the north, near the river. <a href="/wiki/Wooster_Square,_Danbury" class="mw-redirect" title="Wooster Square, Danbury">Wooster Square</a>, the intersection of Main, Elm and White, became a focal point of northern downtown due to the train station's presence. Lumberyards and frame stores opened along White. In 1856 Isaac Ives, Charles's uncle, opened the street that bears the family name.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1875_Danbury_picture_map.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A color map showing "Danbury, Conn.", and the buildings on its streets as seen from the southwest." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/1875_Danbury_picture_map.jpg/250px-1875_Danbury_picture_map.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/1875_Danbury_picture_map.jpg/375px-1875_Danbury_picture_map.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/1875_Danbury_picture_map.jpg/500px-1875_Danbury_picture_map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3309" data-file-height="2664" /></a><figcaption>1875 picture map of Danbury</figcaption></figure> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>, another new bank, Union Savings, was founded by hatmakers and merchants. In the 1870s more new public buildings were erected. In 1873, the current jail building replaced the one built in 1828, by then inadequate, and a High Victorian Gothic library was donated to the borough five years later by Alexander White, one of the leading hat industry executives. That same year, the new <i>Danbury News</i> building went up at 288 Main Street, home to editor <a href="/wiki/James_Montgomery_Bailey" title="James Montgomery Bailey">James Montgomery Bailey</a>, whose humorous pieces as "The Danbury News Man" brought him national renown. A Soldier's Monument commemorating the local war dead was built at Main and West in 1880. Three years later the city built a new firehouse on Ives Street, and a new City Hall at Main and West where the library now stands.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Main and West intersection, now called City Hall Square, became the new center of the district, finally displacing the old Congregational church site to the south. The private sector responded with architectural statements of their own. New commercial blocks began to reach three and four stories, and in 1887 the Union Savings Bank moved into its current building at 226–228 Main Street. Commercial development pushed eastward, leading Isaac Ives to open Keeler Street for development that same year.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1880s culminated with the borough of Danbury becoming a city, and the merger of the three railroads that had served the city (the <a href="/wiki/Housatonic_Railroad" title="Housatonic Railroad">Housatonic</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_and_New_England_Railroad" title="New York and New England Railroad">New York and New England</a>, in addition to the Danbury and Norwalk) becoming part of the <a href="/wiki/New_York,_New_Haven_and_Hartford_Railroad" title="New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad">New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad</a>, referred to locally as the Consolidated due to this absorption. These changes had a profound effect on the community. Main Street was paved with <a href="/wiki/Granite" title="Granite">granite</a> blocks between Elmwood Park and White Street. <a href="/wiki/Flagstone" title="Flagstone">Flagstone</a> sidewalks, sewers, electric <a href="/wiki/Arc_lamp" title="Arc lamp">arc lights</a> and a horse railway were installed.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the end of the 1890s Danbury's 35 hat factories led the nation in production, employing 5,000 directly and indirectly. A <a href="/wiki/Neon_sign" title="Neon sign">neon sign</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Derby_hat" class="mw-redirect" title="Derby hat">derby hat</a> on a crown and the legend "Danbury Crowns Them All" greeted arrivals at the new train station (now the <a href="/wiki/Danbury_Railway_Museum" title="Danbury Railway Museum">Danbury Railway Museum</a>) just east of downtown. The city overcame opposition from <a href="/wiki/Bridgeport,_Connecticut" title="Bridgeport, Connecticut">Bridgeport</a> and persuaded the county legislature to appropriate funds for the current courthouse. Downtown also became an educational center for the region, as <a href="/wiki/Danbury_High_School" title="Danbury High School">Danbury High School</a> was housed on the third floor of the Union Savings Bank building, joining St. Peter's School at 98 Main Street, the first <a href="/wiki/Parochial_school" title="Parochial school">parochial school</a> in Danbury when it was built in 1885.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:PostcardMainStFromWhiteStDanburyCT1907.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A hand-tinted postcard image showing a cobblestone-paved, tree-lined street with many commercial buildings and some horse-drawn carriages. White script at the bottom left corner reads "Main Street, East from White Street, Danbury, Conn."" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/PostcardMainStFromWhiteStDanburyCT1907.jpg/225px-PostcardMainStFromWhiteStDanburyCT1907.jpg" decoding="async" width="225" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/PostcardMainStFromWhiteStDanburyCT1907.jpg/338px-PostcardMainStFromWhiteStDanburyCT1907.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/PostcardMainStFromWhiteStDanburyCT1907.jpg/450px-PostcardMainStFromWhiteStDanburyCT1907.jpg 2x" data-file-width="687" data-file-height="442" /></a><figcaption>1907 postcard of Main Street from White Street</figcaption></figure> <p>As the 20th century began the city was at its industrial peak. Newly designated U.S. highways <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_6_in_Connecticut" title="U.S. Route 6 in Connecticut">6</a>, <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_7_in_Connecticut" title="U.S. Route 7 in Connecticut">7</a> and <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_202_in_Connecticut" title="U.S. Route 202 in Connecticut">202</a> followed Main, West and White streets through downtown, bringing in automobile traffic. Main Street became a local <a href="/wiki/Retailing" class="mw-redirect" title="Retailing">retailing</a> center, with <a href="/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company" title="F. W. Woolworth Company">Woolworth's</a>, <a href="/wiki/McCrory_Stores" title="McCrory Stores">McCrory</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sears_Holdings_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Sears Holdings Corporation">Sears</a> opening <a href="/wiki/Department_store" title="Department store">department stores</a> in the new century's early decades, drawing customers from the smaller nearby towns in Connecticut and the adjacent towns across the New York state line in <a href="/wiki/Dutchess_County,_New_York" title="Dutchess County, New York">Dutchess</a> and <a href="/wiki/Putnam_County,_New_York" title="Putnam County, New York">Putnam</a> counties. Car traffic also led to the establishment of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Car_dealerships_in_North_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Car dealerships in North America (page does not exist)">dealerships</a> on Main Street, primarily in the areas south of Elmwood Park. The demolition of older buildings to make way for them shaped the future historic district.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1946–1995:_Decline"><span id="1946.E2.80.931995:_Decline"></span>1946–1995: Decline</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Street_Historic_District_(Danbury,_Connecticut)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1946–1995: Decline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Danbury's fortunes changed after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. Americans, particularly men, began wearing hats less frequently, forcing cutbacks or closings at the hat factories. In 1955, the flooding of the Still that followed hurricanes <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Connie" title="Hurricane Connie">Connie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Diane" title="Hurricane Diane">Diane</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Ione" title="Hurricane Ione">Ione</a> badly damaged many businesses, particularly in the Wooster Square and White Street areas. In their wake some of the first <a href="/wiki/Historic_preservation" title="Historic preservation">preservation</a> efforts began. The Dodd Shop was saved from demolition by a move to its current location in 1958, and the Blackman House at 59 Main Street was <a href="/wiki/Adaptive_reuse" title="Adaptive reuse">converted</a> into office space.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The next year, 1959, the city and town of Danbury were merged as the state eliminated most county government functions. Downtown merchants who had been affected by the flood reacted by moving to newer and larger space on routes 6,7, <a href="/wiki/Connecticut_Route_37" title="Connecticut Route 37">37</a> and 202 outside of the city center. The empty, damaged space they left behind on the north and northwest of downtown was addressed by <a href="/wiki/Urban_renewal" title="Urban renewal">urban renewal</a> programs of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which demolished whole blocks, partly to accommodate the rechanneling of the Still for <a href="/wiki/Flood_control" class="mw-redirect" title="Flood control">flood control</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1970s the completion of <a href="/wiki/Interstate_84_(east)" class="mw-redirect" title="Interstate 84 (east)">Interstate 84</a> dealt Main Street another setback. All three of Danbury's U.S. highways were <a href="/wiki/Concurrency_(road)" title="Concurrency (road)">rerouted</a> onto the expressway as well and away from downtown. In combination with the expressway bypasses built for US 7 both north and south of the city, this made the outlying properties businesses had been moving to more accessible and competitive with downtown locations. Remaining business owners responded by renovating and <a href="/wiki/Building_restoration" class="mw-redirect" title="Building restoration">restoring</a> their own properties, and the scope of preservation efforts began to expand from the old houses on the south end.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Danbury Preservation Trust, which had been formed in the late 1950s, received a state grant in 1979 to survey and inventory the historic buildings on Main and the nearby side streets. Eventually the effort looked at 300 buildings before settling on the area that would become today's <a href="/wiki/Historic_district_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Historic district (United States)">historic district</a>. It was designated and added to the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a> in 1983, after an intensive survey of the area by the Danbury Preservation Trust as part of an effort by the Connecticut Historical Commission to catalog the state's historic resources for inclusion on the Register.<sup id="cite_ref-Danbury_Preservation_Records_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Danbury_Preservation_Records-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city has special zoning regulations to maintain its historic character.<sup id="cite_ref-executive_summary_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-executive_summary-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 1980s downtown faced its greatest challenge. In 1981, after the last <a href="/wiki/Danbury_Fair" title="Danbury Fair">Danbury Fair</a> was held, <a href="/wiki/Wilmorite_Properties" title="Wilmorite Properties">Wilmorite Properties</a> of <a href="/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" title="Rochester, New York">Rochester, New York</a>, bought the fairground and began developing it into <a href="/wiki/Danbury_Fair_(shopping_mall)" title="Danbury Fair (shopping mall)">a shopping mall</a>. When it opened in 1986, its location near the junction of I-84 and the southern US 7 freeway made it attractive and convenient for shoppers in the region. Main Street's merchants formed a special taxing district, <a href="/wiki/CityCenter_Danbury" title="CityCenter Danbury">CityCenter Danbury</a>, downtown. For a while both they and the mall remained prosperous, although they knew Main Street would never be the center of local retailing again. But when the economy fell into <a href="/wiki/Early_1990s_recession" title="Early 1990s recession">recession in the early 1990s</a>, they feared shoppers would return to the mall and not Main Street. The 1991 closure of <a href="/wiki/Steinbach_(store)" title="Steinbach (store)">Steinbach's</a>, the last department store on Main Street, seemed to affirm this fear.<sup id="cite_ref-1992_NYT_story_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1992_NYT_story-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With state grants, the city built a <a href="/wiki/Parking_garage" class="mw-redirect" title="Parking garage">parking garage</a> on some of the land marked for redevelopment after the flood, in order to free up other scattered parking space. It was the start of a planned complex that would include a movie theater, retail space and condominiums, all meant to attract <a href="/wiki/Middle_class" title="Middle class">middle class</a> residents to the city. The city also hired a consultant to look at plans to cluster similar retailers so downtown could match the mall in offering that to shoppers as well.<sup id="cite_ref-1991_NYT_story_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1991_NYT_story-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Second_1991_NYT_story_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Second_1991_NYT_story-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1996–present:_Revitalization"><span id="1996.E2.80.93present:_Revitalization"></span>1996–present: Revitalization</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Street_Historic_District_(Danbury,_Connecticut)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1996–present: Revitalization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the middle of the decade these efforts had succeeded, helped in part by Danbury's transformation from industrial town to distant <a href="/wiki/Exurb" title="Exurb">exurb</a> of New York City, with corporations such as Cartus and <a href="/wiki/Duracell" title="Duracell">Duracell</a> building major facilities in the area and new housing going up in the areas on the city's periphery as commuters sought less expensive housing still within commuting distance of Manhattan. In 1996 Danbury's industrial space was 93% occupied, and office space vacancy rates were under 15%. Ives Street was reinvented as a Dining and Entertainment District, with the vacant buildings converted into restaurants and nightclubs. "We feel that the downtown is coming back strong", said one local bank president. The community rallied after <a href="/wiki/Arson" title="Arson">arson</a> severely damaged the library in 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-Library_arson_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Library_arson-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Voters passed a bond issue to fund improvements and expansions to city hall and rebuild the library. The <a href="/wiki/Danbury_Ice_Arena" title="Danbury Ice Arena">Danbury Ice Arena</a>, later home to several minor league ice hockey teams, most recently the <a href="/wiki/Danbury_Whalers" title="Danbury Whalers">Danbury Whalers</a>, was also built near Main Street in 1999. It offered a visitor attraction to complement the former train station which had become the <a href="/wiki/Danbury_Railway_Museum" title="Danbury Railway Museum">Danbury Railway Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1996_NYT_story_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1996_NYT_story-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As they had in the mid-19th century, immigrants helped revitalize downtown in the early 21st century. This time they were from <a href="/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America">Latin America</a>, primarily <a href="/wiki/Ecuador" title="Ecuador">Ecuador</a> and Brazil, working as <a href="/wiki/Day_labor" title="Day labor">day labor</a> at construction sites all over Fairfield County. Not all of them were <a href="/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Illegal immigration to the United States">in the U.S. legally</a>, and this created tensions between their community and Mayor Mark Boughton, who unsuccessfully asked <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Connecticut" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Connecticut">Governor</a> <a href="/wiki/Jodi_Rell" title="Jodi Rell">Jodi Rell</a> to have city police deputized as <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Citizenship_and_Immigration_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services">Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services</a> (BCIS) agents so they could legally enforce <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_immigration_legislation" class="mw-redirect" title="List of United States immigration legislation">federal immigration laws</a>. The immigrant community was in turn angered by police efforts to close down their <a href="/wiki/Volleyball" title="Volleyball">volleyball</a> games and <a href="/wiki/Sting_operation" title="Sting operation">sting operations</a> that turned some of them over to the BCIS. In 2005 they staged a mile-long march down Main Street in protest.<sup id="cite_ref-2005_NYT_story_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2005_NYT_story-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Significant_contributing_properties">Significant contributing properties</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Main_Street_Historic_District_(Danbury,_Connecticut)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Significant contributing properties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some of the district's properties are architecturally or historically noteworthy in themselves. One, the <a href="/wiki/John_Rider_House" title="John Rider House">John Rider House</a>, was listed on the National Register prior to the district's creation. Another, the former jailhouse, was determined eligible for listing. </p> <ul><li><b>American Legion Hall</b>, 32–52 Elm Street. The open expanses of brick wall surface with round-arched windows on this 1927 building typify the work of local architect Philip Sunderland.</li> <li><b>Benedict & Nichols Building</b>, 191-193 Main Street. When built in 1852 this transitional <a href="/wiki/Greek_Revival_architecture" title="Greek Revival architecture">Greek Revival</a>-<a href="/wiki/Italianate_architecture" title="Italianate architecture">Italianate</a> commercial structure was the first three-story block in Danbury.</li> <li><b>Chiarella Block</b>, 272 Main Street. This 1914–15 <a href="/wiki/Mixed_use_development" class="mw-redirect" title="Mixed use development">mixed-use</a> structure is one of the earliest in the district to show signs of the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Revival_architecture" title="Colonial Revival architecture">Colonial Revival</a> style.</li> <li><b>Commercial Building at 131 Main Street</b>. Built in 1931, it is the youngest contributing property in the district. Its <a href="/wiki/Modern_architecture" title="Modern architecture">modernist</a> design has some <a href="/wiki/Art_Deco" title="Art Deco">Art Deco</a> elements.</li> <li><b>Commercial Building at 141 Main Street</b>. The dedication plaque of this 1907 late <a href="/wiki/Italianate_architecture" title="Italianate architecture">Italianate</a> building is inscribed in both English and <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>.</li> <li><b>Commercial Building at 279–283 Main Street</b>. First built as a Greek Revival commercial structure in 1853, later sales to different owners led to portions of the facade being redone in <a href="/wiki/Tudorbethan_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Tudorbethan architecture">Tudor</a> and modernist styles.</li> <li><b>Crofut Block</b>, 253–255 Main Street. This brick 1876 building with wooden <a href="/wiki/Pediment" title="Pediment">pedimented</a> window hoods, corner <a href="/wiki/Quoin_(architecture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Quoin (architecture)">quoins</a> and pressed tin ceiling in the store interior at 255 is an excellent example of the high commercial application of the Italianate style.</li> <li><b><i>Danbury News</i> Building</b>, 288 Main Street. This 1873 building had a distinctive <a href="/wiki/Queen_Anne_style_architecture_in_the_United_States" title="Queen Anne style architecture in the United States">Queen Anne</a> tower added in 1893.</li> <li><b>Old Danbury Library</b>, 254 Main Street. Donated to the city in 1878 by fur-processing executive Alexander Moss White, its brick <a href="/wiki/Facade" class="mw-redirect" title="Facade">facade</a> with <a href="/wiki/Polychromatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Polychromatic">polychromatic</a> <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstone</a> trim and slate-shingled gable roof make it the only High Victorian Gothic building extant in the Danbury area.</li> <li><b>John Dodd Shop</b>, 43 Main Street, rear. Moved from its original site to preserve it, this small 1790 frame building is the oldest commercial building in the district.</li> <li><b>Elmwood Park</b>, in center of Main Street between South and Wooster streets. Originally donated to town as a <a href="/wiki/Common_land" title="Common land">common</a>, it was the last home of the Congregationalist church that was the focal point of the early village of Danbury. Later used for growing hay and turned into a public park.</li> <li><b>Fairfield County Courthouse</b>, 71 Main Street. An 1899 <a href="/wiki/Beaux_Arts_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Beaux Arts architecture">Beaux Arts</a> structure designed by <a href="/wiki/Warren_R._Briggs" title="Warren R. Briggs">Warren Briggs</a> that now serves as <a href="/wiki/Juvenile_court" title="Juvenile court">juvenile court</a>.</li> <li><b>Hornig Block</b>, 10–16 Elm Street. This 1882 Italianate commercial building is the only one in the district with pressed-metal siding.</li> <li><b>Houses at 101–103 and 105–107 Main Street</b>. Two double houses, Greek Revival and <a href="/wiki/Federal_style" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal style">Federal</a> in style respectively, that reflect Danbury's early industrial growth in the 1830s.</li> <li><b>Humane Hose Co. No. 1 Firehouse</b>, 6 Boughton Street. The only property on Boughton is a 1911 <a href="/wiki/Stucco" title="Stucco">stucco</a> Italianate firehouse still in public use as a police garage.</li> <li><b>Old Fairfield County Jail</b>, 80 Main Street. An 1872 <a href="/wiki/Second_Empire_(architecture)" class="mw-redirect" title="Second Empire (architecture)">Second Empire</a> building used for its original purpose until 1969. Today it has been converted mostly to senior housing, with part of the ground floor set aside as a small museum. It was determined eligible for the National Register in 1980 but has not been formally listed.</li> <li><b>Old Fire Station</b>, 5-7 Ives Street. When this slate-roofed brick building went up in 1883 it was one of Danbury's first major public buildings. After being taken out of service in 1969, it has been converted into apartments.</li> <li><b>Old Post Office</b>, 258 Main Street. Built in 1876, this Italianate brick building has <a href="/wiki/Corbel" title="Corbel">corbeled</a> window hoods. Its original <a href="/wiki/Cornice" title="Cornice">cornice</a> is missing.</li> <li><b>Old Saddle Factory</b>, 68 Main Street. An 1836 <a href="/wiki/Timber_framing" title="Timber framing">wood frame</a> building later used as housing and today as office space.</li> <li><b>Old Southern New England Telephone Company Building</b>, 31 West Street. This 1908 brick building has some Dutch Colonial Revival touches, most significantly its prominent <a href="/wiki/Stepped-gabled" class="mw-redirect" title="Stepped-gabled">stepped-gabled</a> roof.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/John_Rider_House" title="John Rider House">John Rider House</a></b>, 43 Main Street. This 1785 wooden house is the oldest property in the district. It is currently home to the Danbury Historical Society and Museum, and the only property in the district individually listed on the National Register.</li> <li><b>Seifert Armory</b>, 5–15 Library Place. This five-story 1891 brick building with brownstone lintels and iron cornice has been remodeled into apartments.</li> <li><b>St. James Episcopal Church</b>, 25 West Street. A granite <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival" class="mw-redirect" title="Gothic Revival">Gothic Revival</a> church completed in 1872, making it the oldest extant church building in the district. The parish hall and rectory were added in 1929.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/St._Peter_Church_(Connecticut)" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Peter Church (Connecticut)">St. Peter's Catholic Church</a></b>, 119 Main Street. The 175-foot (53 m) spire of this 1870s building dominates the Danbury skyline. It was the first Catholic church established in northern Fairfield County, later the centerpiece of a small complex of associated buildings.</li> <li><b>St. Peter's Convent</b>, 88 Main Street. An 1895 <a href="/wiki/Neo-Renaissance_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Neo-Renaissance architecture">Renaissance Revival</a> three-story brick building with copper <a href="/wiki/Hip_roof" title="Hip roof">hipped roof</a>.</li></ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Woosters_Monument.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A large brown stone monument with "Wooster" inscribed at the base" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/David_Woosters_Monument.JPG/200px-David_Woosters_Monument.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/David_Woosters_Monument.JPG/300px-David_Woosters_Monument.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/David_Woosters_Monument.JPG/400px-David_Woosters_Monument.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>Monument to <a href="/wiki/David_Wooster" title="David Wooster">David Wooster</a> in Wooster Cemetery</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><b>St. Peter's Rectory</b>, 104 Main Street. A three-story 1891 <a href="/wiki/Richardsonian_Romanesque" title="Richardsonian Romanesque">Richardsonian Romanesque</a> brick building with two projecting octagonal towers.</li> <li><b>St. Peter's School</b>, 98 Main Street. An 1895 Italianate flat-roofed brick building with <a href="/wiki/Bell_tower" title="Bell tower">bell tower</a>. A rear extension was added in 1909.</li> <li><b>Sears Building</b>, 129 Main Street. Built by the retailer in 1929, it was one of the first <a href="/wiki/Modern_architecture" title="Modern architecture">modernist</a> buildings in the district.</li> <li><b>Thomas Settle Building</b>, 248 Main Street. Warren Briggs designed this Richardsonian Romanesque 1887 commercial structure of <a href="/wiki/Rustication_(architecture)" title="Rustication (architecture)">rusticated</a> <a href="/wiki/Brownstone" title="Brownstone">brownstone</a> for the Danbury National Bank. Its original roof and <a href="/wiki/Gable" title="Gable">gables</a> were removed after a 1973 fire.</li> <li><b>Soldiers' Monument</b>, Main and West streets. This granite statue of a <a href="/wiki/Union_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Army">Union Army</a> soldier atop a 12-foot (3.7 m) column with the names of <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a> battles engraved in it was erected in 1878 to memorialize local war dead.</li> <li><b>Union Savings Bank</b>, 226–228 Main Street. A <a href="/wiki/Louis_Sullivan" title="Louis Sullivan">Louis Sullivan</a>-inspired building in brick with <a href="/wiki/Architectural_terracotta" title="Architectural terracotta">terra cotta</a> that was considered one of the city's most distinctive upon its 1887 completion.</li> <li><b>U.S. Post Office</b>, 265 Main Street. Oscar Wenderoth designed this two-story brick <a href="/wiki/Georgian_architecture" title="Georgian architecture">Georgian Revival</a> building with a <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a> <a href="/wiki/Marble" title="Marble">marble</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wood_stain" title="Wood stain">stained</a> oak interior.</li> <li><b>Wooster Cemetery</b>, Wooster Street behind old jail building. Danbury's oldest cemetery, with some graves dating to ca. 1700.</li> <li><b>Wooster Square</b> This section of the city is named after General <a href="/wiki/David_Wooster" title="David Wooster">David Wooster</a>, who was killed defending Danbury against the British attack of 1777.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It saw an initial increase in significance in the 1880s, due to its close proximity to the developing railroads and booming hatting industry. Unfortunately, many decades later, the flood of October 1955 caused severe damage to this area, leading to the loss of several notable buildings.<sup id="cite_ref-NRHP_nom_2-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRHP_nom-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Danbury_and_Bethel_Street_Railway" title="Danbury and Bethel Street Railway">Danbury and Bethel Street Railway</a>, an electric trolley service, operated between Wooster Square and Greenwood Avenue (<a href="/wiki/Bethel,_Connecticut" title="Bethel, Connecticut">Bethel</a>) from 1887 until 1926.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 252px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 250px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WoosterSquare_postcard.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Danbury News Building in Wooster Square, from a 1915 postcard"><img alt="Danbury News Building in Wooster Square, from a 1915 postcard" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/WoosterSquare_postcard.jpg/375px-WoosterSquare_postcard.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/WoosterSquare_postcard.jpg/563px-WoosterSquare_postcard.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/WoosterSquare_postcard.jpg/750px-WoosterSquare_postcard.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Danbury News Building in Wooster Square, from a 1915 postcard</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 202px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 200px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WoosterSquare_c.1890s.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Wooster Square in patriotic decorations (1890s)"><img alt="Wooster Square in patriotic decorations (1890s)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/WoosterSquare_c.1890s.jpg/300px-WoosterSquare_c.1890s.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/WoosterSquare_c.1890s.jpg/450px-WoosterSquare_c.1890s.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/WoosterSquare_c.1890s.jpg/600px-WoosterSquare_c.1890s.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Wooster Square in patriotic decorations (1890s)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 162px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 160px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WoosterSquare_1910.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Looking south to Main Street, Danbury (1910)"><img alt="Looking south to Main Street, Danbury (1910)" 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/83003508">"National Register Information System – (#83003508)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/National_Park_Service" title="National Park Service">National Park Service</a>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 18,</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=National+Register+of+Historic+Places+nomination%2C+Main+Street+Historic+District&rft.pub=National+Park+Service&rft.date=1983-05&rft.aulast=Devlin&rft.aufirst=William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnpgallery.nps.gov%2FNRHP%2FGetAsset%2FNRHP%2F83003508_text&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMain+Street+Historic+District+%28Danbury%2C+Connecticut%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-first_shot-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-first_shot_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jud.state.ct.us/external/kids/history/postcards/Danbury.htm">"Fairfield County Courthouse in Danbury"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 20,</span> 2008</span>. <q>Today the Courthouse is part of the Main Street Historic District. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">August 23,</span> 2010</span>. <q>...in January, 1876, the late Vicar-General Hughes performed the rite of dedication.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=History+of+Danbury%2C+Connecticut%2C+1684%E2%80%931896&rft.place=New+York%2C+NY&rft.pub=Burr+Printing+House&rft.date=1896&rft.aulast=Bailey&rft.aufirst=James+Montgomery&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fhistoryofdanbury00baila%2Fhistoryofdanbury00baila_djvu.txt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMain+Street+Historic+District+%28Danbury%2C+Connecticut%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Danbury_Preservation_Records-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Danbury_Preservation_Records_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080720095005/http://library.wcsu.edu/web/about/units/archives/findingaids/dpt.xml">"Guide to the Danbury Preservation Trust Records 1959-2001"</a>. 2007. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://library.wcsu.edu/web/about/units/archives/findingaids/dpt.xml">the original</a> on July 20, 2008<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 21,</span> 2008</span>. <q>As a result of this Act, Connecticut began statewide surveys to identify sites of architectural and historical significance. First and foremost, sites and districts were to be identified before they could become part of the community's planning process ... In May 1979 DPT received a grant from the Connecticut Historical Commission to identify and describe buildings of historic and architectural importance on Main Street. The survey also encompassed adjacent side streets. 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