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New Canaan Now & Then: 233 Weed St.

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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 home in 1899 had an assessed value of $1,300 and the two acres of land were valued at $150, according to the land records. On April 13, 1899 Amanda Whitney sold the land to Julia Miller for $200. A year later, Ms. Miller sold the property for $250 to Henry E. Waterbury. Mr. Waterbury’s ancestor, Charles Waterbury, had owned the land at an earlier date.

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New Canaan Now & Then: Stevens-Verleger-Deerson-Saxon 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 property at 228 Weed Street has a unique history as its “built” date is unclear. 

The Stevens-Verleger-Deerson-Saxon House was apparently built prior to 1750 (although the land records date it to 1771). The property, located on the west side of Weed Street, just north of Knapp Lane, was owned by the Stevens family in the early 1700s. Among the first recorded transactions in the area were 21 acres to Obadiah Stevens in 1700 and 10 acres to Ephraim Stevens in 1790 – the combined parcels account for the land from what is now Old Stamford Road and Weed Street to the Noroton River. In 1946 Mrs. Robert D. Dumm reported in the New Canaan Historical Annual that the Stevens family could be traced in the 1640s to Stamford and through seven generations to Ann Stevens who married Ever Brown and lived in the house on Weed Street around 1840. 

Ann’s grandfather, Joseph, was the son of Obadiah Stevens.

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New Canaan Now & Then: The Crofoot Ireland 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 Crofoot Ireland House located at 634 Silvermine Road has a rich history and dates back to 1800 (the New Canaan Landmarks dates it at 1796). 

Silvermine in the early days was owned almost entirely by the St. John Family. In 1717, Ebenezer St. John deeded 20 acres on the east side of Canoe Hill to his son, Daniel.

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New Canaan Now & Then: Charles Edwin Thomas Fairty ‘CET’ 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 house located at 107 Old Stamford Road was built for Charles Edwin Thomas Fairty (aka CET or Ned). 

CET was born on March 26, 1887 to Charles Henry Fairty and Sophie Catherine Rover. Mr. Fairty married Lura Hoyt Raymond on June 2, 1909. Lura was born on October 14, 1886 to Walker Samuel Raymond and Annie Shaw Hoyt. An interesting aside is that she is reported to have worn her own wedding dress to the wedding of Lucy A. Scoville where she was the maid of honor, which seems odd in today’s world but was apparently common practice months after her own wedding.

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New Canaan Now & Then: Notable Dogwood Lane Home

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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 brick house located at 46 Dogwood Lane has been home to some notable families in New Canaan since it was built in 1936. 

The first owner listed in the land records was Phyllis A. Warmoth on May 28, 1938. Mrs. Warmoth had married Frank Sheridan Warmoth, the son of Henry Clay Warmoth, on October 2, 1911 in York, Ontario. Henry was 26 years old when he was elected governor of Louisiana, making him one of the youngest governors elected in the history of the United States. 

Governor Warmoth served the state from 1868 to 1872. He was impeached in 1872 after facing criticism for weakening civil rights legislation and endorsing a Democrat (he was a Republican) as his successor.