Photo Challenge #262

Posted on January 5, 2020 | 21 Comments

Seems like there are a lot of wrought iron fences in town.

One surrounds Christ & Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Another sits outside “Fort Apache” — the medical center on Kings Highway North,near Wilton Road.

Neither of those fences was last week’s Photo Challenge, though. Amy Schneider captured the one at Winslow Park. It was built for a previous use of the rolling land bordered by North Compo and the Post Road: originally handsome estate for Henry Richard and his wife Mary Fitch Winslow (click here for that amazing back story), then part of the mysterious and spooky Westport Sanitarium (click here).

The first person to correctly recognize that fence was Fred Cantor — though he qualified “Winslow Park?” with a question mark.

We see that fence all the time, stuck at that Post Road/Compo traffic light. Next time, look a bit more closely.

It’s beautiful.

Today’s Photo Challenge is a cornerstone. No one is alive today who remembers it being laid — but it was an important one. Click “Comments” below if you know where it is.

(Photo/Dan Woog)

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21 responses to “Photo Challenge #262”

  1. Dan Vener | January 5, 2020 at 12:04 pm |

    The old library / Needle park.

  2. Robert Mitchell | January 5, 2020 at 12:04 pm |

    The original library.

  3. Tom Trisch | January 5, 2020 at 12:05 pm |

    The original library

  4. Christine McCarthy | January 5, 2020 at 12:05 pm |

    Old Library

  5. Michelle Scher Saunders | January 5, 2020 at 12:06 pm |

    Masonic Lodge/ Harding Funeral Home

  6. Chip Stephens | January 5, 2020 at 12:06 pm |

    The Old library building on main and post

  7. John Hartwell | January 5, 2020 at 12:09 pm |

    The old library at Post Road and Main Street?

  8. Elaine Marino | January 5, 2020 at 12:11 pm |

    19 Post Road East.

  9. Michael Calise | January 5, 2020 at 12:20 pm |

    Dan, You’ve featured this before. A couple of years ago!

  10. Daryl Styner-Presley | January 5, 2020 at 12:42 pm |

    Is this from the building which we now use as our Town Hall?

  11. Bobbie Herman | January 5, 2020 at 1:59 pm |

    The old library.

  12. Seth Schachter | January 5, 2020 at 2:46 pm |

    Pretty certain- old library on post rd/Main Street

  13. Seth Goltzer | January 5, 2020 at 2:50 pm |

    Looks like the Library….back when Andrew Carnegie was giving Grants to build them all over the Country, like the old one in Southport

  14. Jonathan McClure | January 5, 2020 at 3:09 pm |

    Old library building… now housing Pop’t Art

  15. Linda Amos | January 5, 2020 at 3:48 pm |

    Original library

  16. Dan Woog | January 5, 2020 at 3:49 pm |

    It is the old library, corner of Post Road and Main Street. Well done!

  17. Bruce Salvo | January 5, 2020 at 9:07 pm |

    The orig Westport library

  18. Susan Huppi | January 5, 2020 at 10:36 pm |

    I am guessing the old library

  19. Mary Ann Batsell | January 6, 2020 at 12:10 am |

    The old library on the Post Rd,