River Road - Mead Avenue Historic District Greenwich, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places Data
The River Road - Mead Avenue Historic District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000171
- Date Listed
- April 28, 2014
- Name
- River Road-Mead Avenue Historic District
- Other Names
- The Plain
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- Roughly along Mead Ave. & River Rd.
- City/Town
- Greenwich
- County
- Fairfield
- State
- Connecticut
- Category
- district
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE; COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The River Road - Mead Avenue Historic District is of local historic significance because it comprises what is traditionally considered the most prestigious neighborhood in the village of Cos Cob and one of the best examples of a pre-World War I, uppermiddle-class neighborhood in the Town of Greenwich as a whole (Criterion A). It is architecturally significant primarily because of its nineteenth-century dwellings, including notable examples of the Greek Revival, Italianate, and Second Empire styles, as well as three carriage houses that have been remodeled into dwellings. The district's early twentieth-century houses include notable examples of the Colonial Revival and Shingle styles (Criterion C).
