The Haviland and Elizabeth Streets-Hanford Place Historic District is an irregularly shaped 4.3 acres (1.7 ha) 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...

 in Norwalk, Connecticut

Norwalk, Connecticut

Norwalk is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of the city is 85,603, making Norwalk sixth in population in Connecticut, and third in Fairfield County...

 that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1988.

The district is significant as a cohesive grouping of late 19th and early 20th century residential architecture. Eight houses are Queen Anne style, which involves irregular massing and use of turned or sawn woodwork in porches and elsewhere. Others display Colonial Revival elements, including Tuscan columns on some. Some are Italianate

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...

 or display aspects of that style. Second Empire style is also represented.

The district includes 36 contributing buildings and 2 non-contributing ones.
The buildings included in the district are:

1. 3 Elizabeth Street, Colonial Revival vernacular, c. 1900 (see accompanying photo #6)
2. 5 Elizabeth Street, Queen Anne, c. 1900 (see accompanying photo #6)
3. 7 Elizabeth Street, Queen Anne, c. 1900 (see accompanying photo #6)
4. 8 Elizabeth Street, Italianate, c. 1875, with Colonial Revival entrance porch
5. 9 Elizabeth Street, c. 1870 (see accompanying photo #6)
6. rear of 9 Elizabeth Street, c. 1920 (see accompanying photo #7)
7. 9 Elizabeth Street, 3 bay fieldstone garage (see accompanying photo #15)
8. 10 Elizabeth Street, Italianate vernacular, c. 1875 with Queen Anne style porch
9. 11 Elizabeth Street, Italianate, c. 1880
10. 12 Elizabeth Street
11. 13 Elizabeth Street
12. 14 Elizabeth Street
13. 15 Elizabeth Street
14. 17 Elizabeth Street, Italianate, c.1885
15. 2 Hanford Place, Queen Anne, c. 1880 (see photos #13 and #19)
16. 3 Hanford Place
17. 4 Hanford Place
18. 5 Hanford Place
19. 6 Hanford Place
20. 7 Hanford Place
21. 8 Hanford Place
22. 9 Hanford Place
23. 10 Hanford Place, Queen Anne, c.1890
24. 11 Hanford Place, Queen Anne, c.1880, includes a barn or carriagehouse (see photo #15)
25. 12 Hanford Place
26. 8 Haviland Street
27. 10 Haviland Street, non-contributing
28. 12 Haviland Street
29. 16 Haviland Street
30. 18 Haviland Street (see photo #4)
31. 20 Haviland Street (see photo #4)
32. 22 Haviland Street (see photo #5)
33. 24 Haviland Street
34. 26 Haviland Street
35. 72 South Main Street (see accompanying photos #3 and #20)
36. 74 South Main Street

The district lies within a primarily commercial area of the South Norwalk neighborhood.