1875 - Fairfield Fire Insurance Company - Norwalk, CT - Dated Buildings and Cornerstones on Waymarking.com

This is the former headquarters of the Fairfield Fire Insurance Company. The neighborhood is on the National Register of Historic Places.

"In the same year [1875], the Fairfield Fire Insurance Company Building (43-22) was constructed. The second story of the facade of this four-story brick building has been altered by substituting a continuous band of glass for the original window grouping, still in place on the upper floors: a central group of three segmental arched openings flanked by single windows. The levels are demarcated by strong projecting courses. The central feature of this building is the tall parapet with the building name and date cast into it. The parapet follows the basic grouping of the facade, with a broad pediment-like part over the central group and smaller embossed panels over the flanking windows, with pinnacles at the corners. Although there is an Italiante feel to the window shape, it follows no clear-cut style.
The building on the corner is a three-story brick Romanesque structure whose simple facade consists of two rows of round-arched window openings. There are 10 bays on South! Main Street, four on Washington, and one oblique module on the corner.
The windows are actually rectangular, the area within the arches being filled with patterned brickwork. Large, widely spaced corbels support the simple cornice. There is a small, boxy turret corbelled out above the corner; somewhat reduced from its original height, it rests on a broken pediment. The building was built in the 1880's on top of an earlier single-story building. Part of a plain iron storefront, perhaps dating from that earlier configuration, can be seen on South Main Street. The building is now largely vacant. It originally was a cigar manufactory, with retail stores below."

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Year of construction: 1875 Full inscription: 1875 Fairfield Fire Insurance Company Cross-listed waymark: Not listed

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