Westport has its share of cupolas.
The one at Kings Highway Elementary School is one of the most distinctive. That made it easy for so many readers to nail it, as the site of last week’s Photo Challenge. (Click here to see.)
Victor Belyaev, Andrew Colabella, Amy Schneider, Ann Bacharach, Fred Rubin, Jodie Aujla, Seth Schachter, Peter Barlow, Beth Berkowitz, Jill Turner Odice and Edward Karazin all recognized the distinctive crown feature.
Several readers added the back story: The school opened in 1926 — nearly 100 years ago — as Bedford Junior High. It lay across the field from what was then Staples High School (now Saugatuck Elementary).
In 1958 — when Staples moved to North Avenue — the Riverside Avenue building became Bedford Junior High. The old Bedford was, in turn, Westport’s newest elementary school. (Burr Farms and Hillspoint followed quickly, in those post-war baby boom years. Coleytown El was built just 5 years previously.)
Today’s seasonally appropriate Photo Challenge is below. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.
(Photo/Dan Woog)
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Of course, it’s outside Savvy + Grace — one of Westport’s many great places to shop local.
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