Settle into the Canterbury Center Historic District, a historic area in Canterbury, CT. In 1998, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district is centered on the town green, located at the junction of Route 169 and Route 14. It contains a fine assortment of 18th and early 19th-century architecture, with most buildings being wood frame structures 1-1/2 or 2-1/2 stories in height built before about 1850.
The district features buildings of Georgian Colonial, Federal, and Greek Revival style, with only one house in the later Italianate style. Non-residential buildings in the district include two fraternal halls, a Grange hall, and the Finnish Hall. The library is housed in a Greek Revival building that originally served as a one-room district schoolhouse.
The area was settled by English colonists around the turn of the 18th century and incorporated in 1703. The town green was established in 1705. The district was once a principal center of education, home to an early academy founded in the 1790s and the school for African-American girls founded by Prudence Crandall in 1831. The Prudence Crandall House, a National Historic Landmark, stands in the district today.
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