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

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-83
Survey number: HAER CT-133
Building/structure dates: 1940 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1958 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1988 Subsequent Work