Back to Urban Renewal and "Lost Streets," today we present:
Looking East Along Cottage Street
Download newspaper clipping of May 12, 1934
Cottage Street is lost to urban redevelopment. As we said in Lost Streets of Stamford:
Cottage Street already existed before 1850. It appears on the Woodford Map of 1851. Some of the structures clearly date to the late 19th century. All the structures appear on the 1929 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map unless otherwise noted.
This photo from the URC, Block 17-8-9, looks very much like some houses in the above sketch.
Courtesy The City of Stamford, Connecticut, Urban
Redevelopment Commission
Downtown Stamford Urban Renewal
Related map
We do add the usual warning:
"At times, the accompanying vignettes are mostly folklore passed on to Mr. Bailey by residents of the areas where he was sketching. In those instances he had no way of determining the truth of the story. Nor have we. It is presented as a sidelight to the sketch. Therefore, researchers are cautioned to regard these tales as local color, interesting, thought provoking, but sometimes not entirely factual."
(Reference file: Bailey226.jpg)
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