When not looking at the road, drivers, cyclists, joggers and walkers on Compo Beach Road usually gaze at Ned Dimes Marina.
Whether filled with sailboats, powerboats and yachts in summer, or completely empty in winter, it’s a gorgeous, ever-changing sight.
But the view on the other side — the homes facing the water — is also alluring.
Set back from the street, they’re handsome, well-maintained and unique.
Enough “06880” readers notice them to ensure that — contrary to what I thoght — there were several correct responses to last week’s Photo Challenge.
Linda Stern, Michael Szeto, Matt Murray, Andrew Colabella, Jeff Laska and Goldie Winn all knew that the statue in Ed Simek’s photo stands in the front lawn of 53 Compo Beach Road. (Click here to see.)
That’s “the yellow house with the li’l robotic lawnmower,” Andrew notes.
Now, let’s kick off Memorial Day month with this Photo Challenge.
If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.
HINT: It’s not at Veterans Green, across from Town Hall.
(Photo/Molly Alger)
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Is it with the minute man statue.
I believe it is in the area adjacent to Route 1 in the area where Tanglewoods and later Bertucci’s used to be. It was across from the statue of the WW I Doughboy that was in the median of Route 1 before that statue was moved to its present location across from Town Hall on Veterans’ Green.
I think this is located close by to where WWI Doughboy was before it was moved to Veterans Green. Off Post Road (Rt 1)
If you take the sharp (curved) right from 833 Post Rd onto Long Lots Rd, you will pass very close to this veterans’ monument. It is just a few feet from the sidewalk.
I think it’s on Town Hall Green (which used to be known as Veterans Green)!
Jeff, it’s still Veterans Green. The only other green is Jesup Green, presently under siege 😉
Along US1 by Salon Dada
Paul, Seth, Elaine and Scott are correct. This plaque is near where Long Lots Road meets the Post Road – by the former Clam Box/Tanglewoods/Bertucci’s building (now Pizza Lyfe and Dada Salon).
The reason it’s there is because that’s where the World War I Doughboy statue was, for many years. It was moved in (I believe) the 1970s to Veterans Green, opposite Town Hall.
I wonder why the Town did not move the memorial at the same time it moved the statue. Would it not make sense to move it near where the statue now is on Veterans’ Green? That would be a great project to get done by Memorial Day or Veterans’Day!
At the original site of the Doughboy statue on US-1. After WWI, the VFW raised $10,000 and by 1935 the statue was raised and is now at Veterans Green across from Town Hall.
Augustus Mathias was the first soldier to die in WWI from Westport, named after the American Legion, and Joseph J. Clinton was the last soldier from Westport to die in WWI, the name of the VFW today.
I believe this is on the green in front of town hall