PHOTO GALLERY Houses of Change: Restoration and Adaptation in 19th-century Norwalk Norwalk Preservation Trust’s 2024 Living History Tour originally sought to explore architectural adaptation and change in Norwalk’s early Victorian period (1860 to 1880), but we...
Photo courtesy Wesleyan University Press LECTURE Buildings of Change: Keynote talk for Houses of Change tour Sunday, September 22, 2 PM to 3 PM Norwalk Public Library, 1 Belden Avenue Christopher Wigren, Deputy Director of Preservation Connecticut and author of...
PHOTO GALLERY Made in Norwalk: Our Industrial Past Reborn NPT’s tenth Living History Tour explored the architectural practice of “adaptive reuse,” whereby existing historic structures are preserved and repurposed. Hats, textiles, pottery, corsets and...
PHOTO GALLERY Through Artists' Eyes: Norwalk People and Places in the WPA Murals NPT’s fourth Living History Tour focused on Norwalk’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals. Many of the artists were Norwalk residents themselves, not to mention the people...
PHOTO GALLERY Lost Tracks: Norwalk's Historic Trolley Tour Norwalk Preservation Trust’s 2013 Living History tour was the opening event for a series of happenings celebrating the 100th anniversary of the consolidation of Norwalk in 1913. NPT is very lucky that...