Downtown Stamford - Pictures

Pictures

  • Town Hall, ca. 1914

  • Ferguson Library, ca. 1912

  • Universalist Church and parsonage, ca. 1905

  • Same church and parsonage, 2007

  • Prospect Street, ca. 1915

  • Prospect Street, same spot, 2007

  • First Congregational Church, ca. 1913

  • Same church in 2007

  • Hotel Davenport, from a postcard sent in 1916

  • West Park, 1905

  • West Park, 1906

  • West Park, 1910

  • Central Park, circa 1910-1919

  • Suburban Avenue, circa 1908

  • U.S. Post Office, circa 1911

  • Summer Street, circa 1909

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