The John Brotherhood Company, Inc. was founded in 1926 by John Brotherhood on the northeast corner of Park and Elm Streets. The original building was a simple wooden structure heated by a Franklin stove. When the firm outgrew this building, it was moved to the opposite side of Elm Street where it stood next to Franco’s […]
The Silliman and Weed, a grocery store, was formed in 1867 by Joseph Fitch Silliman and Chauncey Weed. This business was located on the south corner of Main Street and East Avenue, most likely in 102 Main Street now occupied by Personal Touch and Dashi Custom Tailors. After a few years, Silliman bought out Weed […]
Henry B. Rogers built 62 Park Street in the 1870s. It was one of the few mansions in the center of town and, like many, is now a parking lot. Rogers’ success came from the shirt manufacturing business he established with another New Canaan resident Albert B. Comstock. Originally called Comstock, Rogers & Co, the company […]
Samuel Silliman opened the first drug store in New Canaan on Main Street in 1845. Nine years later, Lucius Monroe purchased it and renamed it the New Canaan Drug store. Doctors came to dispense medicines and Monroe did, too. By the later part of the 19th century, the drug store had become something of a […]
The photographer here was C.E. Hilgert, looking north on Main Street ca. 1947. The stone wall is the one that now frames the parking lot. The Birdsall House used to sit on what is now the Morse Court parking lot in the center of New Canaan, bounded by Main Street, Cherry Street and South Avenue. Around […]