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Danbury officials waiting to hear back from Historic Trust on Octagon House renovation plans

Danbury officials have identified funding to begin the renovation work needed to turn the Octagon House into a police substation.  Plans, which also call for housing the Unified Neighborhood Inspection Team on site, were submitted to the Historic Trust last month.  The City is now waiting to hear back from the on the plans that have been drawn up so far.  The review process could take up to 90 days and the panel will send comments back to the City.  Mayor Mark Boughton says if they have to make adjustments, they will do so.  He hopes restorative work can start in the fall. 

 

Plans also call for creating storage space on the 2nd and 3rd floors, because those stories are not accessible via elevator for public use.  The building is one of only a handful of eight-sided houses left in the country and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

Some trees were recently removed from the Spring Street property so officials could get a better idea of the scope of restoration work needed.  The dilapidated building was in foreclosure and purchased by the City as a community improvement project.  The house was built in 1852 and eventually converted to apartments, but abandoned by its owner in 2008.  The blighted property attracted vandalism and squatting in recent years. 

 

A Danbury firm, Seventy2 Architects, was awarded the bid to conduct an analysis of the historic home.

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