Talk:Washington, Connecticut

"Affluence"

Washington is the 62nd (out of 187 towns) wealthiest CT town in terms of median household income, and 10th (out of 26) within the county of Litchfield. Not really sure this qualifies it as "among the most affluent" in either the state or county.

http://www.ct.gov/ecd/lib/ecd/economic_data/income/2000_median_hh,_family_&_per_cap_income.xls —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.108.39.153 (talk) 02:46, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Washington is primarily a second home to New Yorkers. Their demographic information is not counted in the census. As you can tell by the real estate prices in the town, it is clearly one of the wealthiest towns in the state. 199.168.62.2 (talk) 17:04, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

architecture and sources

Bill Blass house

I removed an assertion about Georgian architecture from this article, and User:Kcboling has returned it with edit summary "Historic Districts: re-inserted reference to Georgian architectural style, which is clearly evident in the drawing & photo of the Hill Church, photo of Bill Blass house, & CT Historic Inventory)". The text in the article, referring to the New Preston Hill Historic District is currently that "The structures in this district are built principally in the Georgian style."

I believe that's not accurate now. The Hill church's drawing looks to me like Federal style architecture, focussing on the semi-elliptical window and other features. Indeed, the NRHP nomination for the district (linked in the HD article) describes the church as having Federal architecture and Greek Revival architecture features. Georgian architecture is generally later than Federal/Greek Revival, too. The church was built in 1824, at the era of Federal and Greek Revival. The HD nomination document describes the buildings as being 2 Colonial, 4 Federal, 1 Italianate and 2, 3, 4 being 18th-, 19th-, 20th-century vernacular style.

Possibly some of the 20th century ones could be characterized as Georgian, and it may be that the Bill Blass House is Georgian, based on its photo, but I am not comfortable with asserting that without a source judging it so.

What is the mention of CT Historic Inventory about? Is that a source that does describe the Bill Blass house as being Georgian? --doncram (talk) 15:47, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

I had thought the Bill Blass house pic was showing a more modern house, but now i see it is the Newton's Tavern one in photo 1 of the NRHP nom pics. It too is described as being Federal/Greek Revival in style, despite being described as being built c.1900 (which does not make sense to me for those styles). But closer looking at it, it does not look like Georgian Revival or other Georgian, to me. --doncram (talk) 16:00, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

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