REDMAN-FITZGERALD HOUSE

LOCAL HISTORIC PROPERTY

Build: c.1894  | Protected: 2024

The Redman-FitzGerald house is a large 2½ story dwelling designed in the Shingle style and is presently set on an approximate 1-acre lot bordered to its north by Bayside Terrace (private road), to its east by Riverside Avenue and early to mid-twentieth century residential homes to its south and west.

 

The historical significance of the house relies upon its age and its association with the transformation of Riverside, a neighborhood/section in the town of Greenwich bounded by the Mianus River to its west and the town of Old Greenwich to its east.

 

At present, no architect has been identified with the house. The Shingle style, popular in the 1880s and 1890s and identified with some of the early houses in Belle Haven, Greenwich’s first “Resident Park”, did not require an architect but could be constructed either from a plan or with a builder’s skill. It is possible Mr. Redman looked to duplicate in Riverside what had been happening in Belle Haven. 

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Architectural Significance

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The Redman-FitzGerald House remains a noteworthy example of the Shingle style as being one of five such documented houses in the Riverside section of Greenwich, CT.