The Bradley Edge Tool Company Historic District is a 30 acres (12.1 ha) linear historic district

Historic district (United States)

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant. Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided...

 along Lyons Plain Road in Weston, Connecticut

Weston, Connecticut

Weston is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The population was 10,179 at the 2010 census. The town is served by Route 57 and Route 53, both of which run through the town center. About 19% of the town's workforce commutes to New York City, about to the southwest.Like many towns in...

. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1995. It then included 30 contributing buildings, including 19 houses built during 1820-1925, and one contributing site.

The Bradley Edge Tool Company complex burned in 1911. The district borders on the Saugatuck River

Saugatuck River

The Saugatuck River is a river in southwestern Connecticut in the United States. It drains part of suburban and rural Fairfield County west of Bridgeport, emptying into Long Island Sound.-Description:...

. Two houses, the Curtis Wood House and the Miles Bradley House, are individually significant for their architecture.

Contributing properties include:

• the Gershom W. Bradley House, with a Greek Revival style doorway (see accompanying photo #1)
• the Miles Bradley House, an "exceptional example of Italianate architecture
  Italianate architecture
  The Italianate style of architecture was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. In the Italianate style, the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian Renaissance architecture, which had served as inspiration for both Palladianism and...
  
  ", has unusual "double bullseye windows" (see photos #3,4)
• the Osborne House, apparently originally Greek Revival but given a Colonial Revival portico later
• the Lockwood House, a "three-quarter house" (see photo #13)