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Photo Challenge #505

It’s easy to miss the Westport Public Schools’  maintenance office.

It’s next to Canal Park on Canal Street, where it turns into Kings Highway North. There’s plenty of time at that traffic light to notice it — just downhill from the Willows medical complex (aka “Fort Apache”), on the Saugatuck River just north of the bridge.

But it tends to blend in with the scenery.

Four readers — Andrew Colabella, Seth Schachter, Robert Walter Mitchell and Beth Berkowitz — are alert enough, though, to have identified the weathervane atop building (which, years ago, served as a Bridgeport Hydraulic facility) as last week’s Photo Challenge. (Click here to see.)

That was the second time this summer that the Board of Education maintenance site was the subject of a Photo Challenge. The previous one, last month, showed the intricately carved door.

How about this week’s Challenge? If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Richard Fogel)

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Photo Challenge #500

Last week’s Photo Challenge was another of those hidden-in-plain-sight puzzles.

Ed Simek’s shot showed the front door — and intricate molding — of the Westport Public Schools’ maintenance building.

Set back a bit from the road, it’s easy to overlook. But if you’re ever stuck at the traffic light at Kings Highway North and Canal Street — and who isn’t? — glance over at the building, nestled between the Saugatuck River and Canal Park. There it is. (Click here to see.)

Eric Bosch, Seth Schachter and Andrew Colabella all knew the answer.

Alfred Herman offered this historical tidbit: In its earlier incarnation, this was the local office of Bridgeport Hydraulic Company. (The local water utility is now Aquarion.)

Seth Schachter returns today, as the photographer of this week’s Photo Challenge. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Seth Schachter)

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