“06880” readers did not “knead” to think long about last week’s Photo Challenge.
The image of a sign saying “Saugatuck” was indeed at Kneads, the bakery, café and “mill” in the heart of that historic neighborhood.
If we gave out prizes, there would be free croissants and cappuccinos for Marc Frankel, John McKinney, Helen Appleby, Brian Taylor, Wendy Schaefer, Robin Jaffee Frank, Seth Schachter, Sal Liccione and Ida B. Lowe.
But we don’t. So “congratulations!” will have to suffice.
Today’s Photo Challenge might be tough. We’ve learned never to underestimate our readers, though.
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(Photo/Wendy Crowther)
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It’s a barn and it’s easily over 70 years old, but that’s the best I can do.
Total guess, Saugatuck rowing club building.
The Longshore Pro Shop building
That better not be The Longshore Pro Shop building.
It’s not. All guesses are incorrect so far.
Wakeman Farm ???????
I’m thinking it’s an older barn somewhere in the Greens Farms area like the barn on Elmstead Lane off Turkey Hill. There might even be another one around the corner.
Looks like an authentic, NYC DNA certified, pizza shop.
Look at the shingles on the outside of the building. That’s the type you saw in Westport from the early to mid 1940s like my parents’ first home built in 1946.
Still looking for the right answer …
Equipment barn at Sherwood Island State park…on the shore of the Mill Pond… across the little road from the set of the trailor park set for the Donald Sutherland movie based on the Stephen King short story was filmed a couple of years ago.
Bingo!
Well, at least I pegged it as a barn. Do you know what year it was built? They better start taking care of it because it doesn’t look like it’s in very good shape.
Very impressive Werner…
Is that considered one of those made up historic districts? I may grab a slice and enjoy it!
On Cross Highway near the reconstruction of the bridge?!
Why not organize a work party and scrape/paint it?
Maybe Jen Tooker could take the lead.
It’d make a good photo op for her campaign.
Sherwood Island – the work barn. I just took a pic of it today! If it’s not that, the one at Sherwood looks exactly the same – same colors, shape and peeling!
it is that one!
Sherwood Island State Park
I may be in the minority here, but given its location (‘on the shore of Mill Pond’ ) it certainly now has that nice ‘weather beaten’ look one would expect.:-)
(I love old barns…esp. the barns at Lachat’s place, Godfrey Rd. Weston:-)
Maybe more than you want to know:
I know and identified this portion of the barn because—when dogs are allowed into Sherwood Island State Park—my dog Pip walks me by this barn every third walk. (He has three chosen routes and chooses this one every third day of walking. Go figure.)
This equipment barn is believed to have originated as the stable barn of the Sherwood family farm or estate; a nearby stone building reportedly served as the carriage barn. The Sherwoods settled on what was then called Fox Island in 1787 and operated a substantial nineteenth-century coastal farm, growing onions and potatoes for shipment to New York and running the gristmill at Sherwood Mill Pond. The barn is therefore an important surviving link between Sherwood Island’s agricultural past and its later public use. After the state made its first small purchase there in 1914—the beginning of Connecticut’s state-park system—it took a contentious 23-year struggle to secure sufficient land and public access in 1937. The old farm buildings were subsequently adapted for park maintenance, equipment storage and staff use; one former employee recalled working around the “White Barn” in the 1960s and ’70s and even living in it one summer.
Unfortunately, Connecticut DEEP has classified the White Barn as structurally deficient and unusable for park operations. Its current restoration program lists demolition of the barn as “completed” and calls for construction of a new, simple metal vehicle-and-equipment storage building, originally estimated at $400,000. If the building in this recent photograph remains standing, DEEP’s notation may be premature, or this may be a surviving section of the larger historic service complex.
I don’t know if it’s still there as I have been walking Pip elsewhere while he is banned with all his canine kind. But we will check the barn out on October 1st, 2nd, or 3rd depending on the route he chooses.
Back of Romanacci at Old Mill