5-734: Fairfield Historic District may refer to: Fairfield Historic District (Fairfield, Connecticut) , listed on the NRHP in Connecticut Fairfield Avenue Historic District (Bellevue, Kentucky) , listed on the NRHP in Kentucky Fairfield Historic District (Shreveport, Louisiana) , listed on the NRHP in Louisiana Fairfield Historic District (Fairfield, North Carolina) , listed on
10-412: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fairfield Historic District (Fairfield, Connecticut) The Fairfield Historic District encompasses the historic town center of Fairfield, Connecticut , roughly along Old Post Road between U.S. Route 1 and Turney Road. The area contains Fairfield's town hall, public library, and houses dating from
15-746: The NRHP in North Carolina Fairfield Historic District (Fairfield, Pennsylvania) , listed on the NRHP in Pennsylvania Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fairfield Historic District . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairfield_Historic_District&oldid=545583524 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
20-511: The late 18th century, and includes portions of the town's earliest colonial settlement area. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Fairfield's town center was laid out in the 17th century by its founders, who included Roger Ludlow . The area was divided into Four Squares, one for Ludlow, one for a minister, one for civic buildings, and one for a town common. Elements of this early division survive in
25-600: The layout and placement of civic and religious buildings. The village center was burned in 1779 by British troops during the American Revolutionary War , resulting in the destruction of all of the town's civic buildings and many houses. The district hosts a concentration of houses that did survive the military raid, and the town hall, built in 1794, is still evocative of the architecture of that period. The district includes about 75 historically significant buildings on 35 acres (14 ha) of land. It extends from
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