Windham Center Historic District

Windham Center Historic District is a 205-acre (83 ha) area in the town of Windham, Connecticut, that is designated as a historic district.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. At the time, it included 61 contributing buildings out of a total of 78 buildings, and it included 2 other contributing sites. One of the buildings in the district is the Original 1832 Greek Revival style Windham Bank building, which was converted to the Windham Free Library in 1896.

General description

Windham Center is a village in the New England town of Windham in northeast Connecticut. The District is centered on a the village green. During the town's first 125 years, this district was the most thickly settled part of the surrounding area. The village was selected as the seat of Windham County, when the latter was created in 1726, and prospered from the legal activity around the courthouse that was constructed. In the following three decades Windham Center grew to be a prosperous administrative, commercial and agricultural center.