C. J. Starr Barn and Carriage House

United States historic place


C. J. Starr Barn and Carriage House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


41°4′3″N 73°32′6″W / 41.06750°N 73.53500°W / 41.06750; -73.53500
Area	less than one acre
Built	1889 (1889)
NRHP reference No.	79002623^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 14, 1979

The C. J. Starr Barn and Carriage House is an historic estate outbuilding, located on the grounds of the former Sacred Heart Academy on Strawberry Hill Road in Stamford, Connecticut. It is a large 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure with elegant Italianate scrolled woodwork on the exterior, with a smaller barn joined to a larger building that originally functioned as a carriage house. They were built c. 1860 by C. J. Starr has part of a larger country estate, of which these are the only surviving buildings. The estate was given to the Sacred Heart Academy, which has done sensitive restoration of the exterior of the structure; its interior has been converted into a gymnasium and other facilities.^[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 14, 1979.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "NRHP nomination for C.J. Starr Barn and Carriage House". National Park Service. Retrieved January 4, 2015.