Tuesday Tour of the New Haven Line: Rowayton

Tuesday Tour of the New Haven Line: Rowayton

Twilight on the Sound, Darien – Painting by artist John Frederick Kensett. Welcome to Rowayton – a delightful neighborhood of Norwalk (full of people with salaries significantly higher than mine), located right along the coastline of Long Island Sound. The New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad ran through this area for many years, but a station was only established in Rowayton in February of 1868. According to popular lore the station was built at the urging of several prominent artists that worked in the area. Vincent Colyer and John Frederick Kensett worked out of a studio located on Contentment...