Mead Park Brick Barn (64 Richmond Hill Road, New Canaan ())

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Building Name (Common)

Mead Park Brick Barn

Building Name (Historic)

Standard Oil Company Carriage Barn

Address

64 Richmond Hill Road, New Canaan

Typology

Overview

Designations

State Register

Historic Significance

n/a

Field Notes

Listed on the State Register of Historic Places as of November 2010. "On September 15, 1901 Benjamin Mead of New Canaan and James Mead of Greenwich sold a lot, 60’ wide by 100’ deep, along Richmond Hill Road near the intersection of Grove Street to The Standard Oil Company of New York for $300. There the company built a brick barn, with four stalls for two teams of horses, a stall for grain and a stall for tack room, with a center passageway for a kerosene delivery wagon, with a hayloft above . Standard Oil shipped kerosene from its refineries by rail car to bulk stations from where horse-drawn tank wagons distributed it to grocery stores, general stores, drug stores and hardware stores, where it was sold to the consumer. These tank wagons also delivered to large farms, estates, and industrial or commercial sites . After World War I the deliveries were usually made with a gas powered truck and the carriage barn became known as a garage, the hay-loft converted to upstairs offices or a meeting room, and to reach these upstairs rooms an outside staircase was added." - Mimi Findlay: http://newcanaanpreservationalliance.org/programs_news/threats/ - 1/14/2011.

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