18th-century Connecticut house to be preserved in deal with conference center
A long-neglected house in Norwalk, Conn., will be restored, thanks to a settlement agreement signed last month.
The Norwalk Inn and Conference Center, which has owned the adjacent c. 1780 Grumman-St. John House since 2001, applied for a demolition permit in 2006, hoping to expand its non-historic inn, but a judge granted a temporary injunction against demolition in 2008.
After years of litigation, the inn agreed to a settlement on August 12, and committed to restore the structure, part of the city’s National Register-listed Norwalk Green Historic District. Locals have been concerned about the run-down house's condition for almost a decade, says Tod Bryant, president of the Norwalk Preservation Trust, which filed a lawsuit under the state environmental protection act four years ago.