The town has issued the building permit for a new, 4,700-square-foot home at 22 Green Ave.—site until this summer of a 1908 house that neighbors and preservationists had fought to spare the wrecking ball.
The historic house at 22 Green Ave. came down this summer and, despite opposition from some neighbors and from preservationists, a new home will go up. Credit: Michael Dinan
During public hearings earlier this year, where the property owner that was seeking a special permit to exceed coverage in order to keep a barn on the property (which is still there), neighbors had spoken out against plans for the new home, calling it conspicuously large, out of character with the neighborhood and potentially creating a runoff problem. Preservationists said the two-story Colonial was historically significant.
The home at 22 Green Ave. had been thought to be a 1908 structure that stands where this Queen Anne style home—residence of Leroy Elwood—once did. Photo from the 1905 New Canaan Directory
The new home will include five bedrooms, four full bathrooms, a half-bath, finished basement and attic with an office and bedroom, two fireplaces, 2-car garage and open patio, according to a building permit issued Thursday.
It is to be built by Stonecrest Builders for $800,000, the permit said.
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The town on Friday approved an application for an estimated $1.6 million addition to a home at 1 Woods End Road.
The project calls for about 2,000 square feet in additions to a single-family dwelling, with work to be done by Windward Development of New Canaan. The home will get an additional two bedrooms for a total of six, adding a sunroom-kitchen-family room and 2-car garage, the building permit said.