Simsbury Center Historic District
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The Simsbury Center Historic District is a 75 acres (30.4 ha) historic district
Historic district (United States)
In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 located in the town center area of Simsbury, Connecticut
Simsbury, Connecticut
Simsbury is a suburban town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 23,234 at the 2000 census. The town was incorporated as Connecticut's twenty-first town in May 1670.-Early history:...

 that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1996.

It then included 48 contributing buildings, 18 non-contributing buildings, and one non-contributing site.
Signicant contributing buildings include:
  • Simsbury Free Library, 1887, 749 Hopmeadow Street (see #1 in photos accompanying NRHP nomination)
  • Eno Memorial Hall
    Eno Memorial Hall
    Eno Memorial Hall is a building built in 1932 in Simsbury, Connecticut. It served historically as acourthouse, as a city hall, as an auditorium, and as government offices. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993....

    , 1932, 754 Hopmeadow Street, Colonial Revival architecture
    Colonial Revival architecture
    The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...

  • Pettibone House, c. 1790, 741 Hopmeadow Street, a five bay central-chimney house modified later to Colonial Revival
    Colonial Revival architecture
    The Colonial Revival was a nationalistic architectural style, garden design, and interior design movement in the United States which sought to revive elements of Georgian architecture, part of a broader Colonial Revival Movement in the arts. In the early 1890s Americans began to value their own...

     style

Buildings and sites include, also:
  • First Church of Christ, 689 Hopmeadow Street (accompanying Photo #1)
  • 750-760 Hopmeadow Street (Photo #2)
  • Simsbury Center Cemetery, 755 Hopmeadow Street (Photo #4)
  • 783-835 Hopmeadow Street (Photo #5)
  • Methodist Episcopal Church, 799 Hopmeadow Street (Photo #6)
  • Massacoh Plantation, 800 Hopmeadow Street (Photo #7)
  • Titus Barber House, 920 Hopmeadow Street (Photo #8)
  • Horace Belden School / Simsbury Town Office Building, 933 Hopmeadow Street (see Photo #9)
  • Bronze plaque at Pent Road (Photo #10)
  • St. Mary's Church and Rectory, 944 and 940 Hopmeadow Street (Photo #11)
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