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Merritt Parkway, (Northbound) Fairfield Service Station, Abutting South side of Merritt Parkway, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

Merritt Parkway, (Northbound) Fairfield Service Station, Abutting South side of Merritt Parkway, Fairfield, Fairfield County, CT

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Summary

Significance: The service stations of the Merritt Parkway illustrate the Connecticut Highway Department's policy of limiting private commercial development and conforming to aesthetic treatment sympathetic to a parkway setting. Built and owned by the state, these were, and continue to be, leased to private companies. Stylistically these Colonial Revival structures were influenced by the service stations of the Westchester County, New York, parkway system.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-86
Survey number: HAER CT-136
Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1958 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1988 Subsequent Work

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Connecticut Highway Department
Dunkelberger, George L
Madrid, transmitter
Lowe, Jet, photographer
place

Location

connecticut41.19559, -73.28152
Google Map of 41.1955901, -73.2815207
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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