New Canaan Now & Then: ‘The Gingerbread House’
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‘New Canaan Now & Then’ is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Joanne Santulli, Karen Ceraso, Bettina Hegel and Schuyler Morris. The gingerbread house on Ponus Ridge was originally purchased from the Sears Catalog and built in 1932.
The property had belonged to the Hayo family as early as 1909. In 1913, Charles Hayo, who worked as a farmer, had a telephone installed at their property. In November 1914 it was reported that Mr. Hayo had broken ground and was building a new home north of his existing home on the property which the family moved into in 1915.
NCHS Junior Launches ‘Fashion Forward’ To Collect Prom Dresses for Open Doors in Norwalk
New Canaan High School junior Adelaide Tuff first visited Open Doors about two years ago.
Her family had already been involved in the Norwalk shelter and support services organization, making about 1,000 sandwiches during the pandemic. Her older brother, Oliver, founded Feeding 500, which sees dozens of NCHS and Darien students raise money for the Open Doors food program. “They didn’t really have many donors who were able to donate food during that time, just because of the overwhelming amount of need they had,” Adelaide Tuff recalled.