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New Canaan Data Center

New Canaan is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Stamford, on the Five Mile River. The population was 19,395 at the 2000 census.

The town is one of the most affluent communities in the United States. CNN Money ranked New Canaan first in the nation with the highest median family income.

New Canaan has two Metro-North railroad stations: the New Canaan station and the Talmadge Hill station, both on the New Canaan Branch of the New Haven Line. Travel time to Grand Central Terminal is approximately one hour.

New Canaan Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 19,395 people, 6,822 households, and 5,280 families residing in the town. The population density was 876.5 people per square mile (338.4/km²). There were 7,141 housing units at an average density of 322.7/sq mi (124.6/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 95.27% White, 1.04% African American, 0.04% Native American, 2.29% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.38% from other races, and 0.98% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.74% of the population.

There were 6,822 households out of which 41.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.2% were married couples living together, 6.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.6% were non-families. 19.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.26.

In the town the population was spread out with 31.2% under the age of 18, 3.3% from 18 to 24, 25.4% from 25 to 44, 26.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 91.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.7 males.

The median income for a household in the town in 2007 was $178,651 and the median income for a family was $231,138, the highest in Connecticut. Males had a median income of $100,000 versus $53,924 for females. The per capita income for the town was $82,049. About 1.4% of families and 2.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.2% of those under age 18 and 2.2% of those age 65 or over.

According to the New Canaan Advertiser's 2008 town answer book, in 2007, 254 single family homes were sold in New Canaan with a median sale price of $1.85 million and an average sale price of $2,301,608.

New Canaan Education

New Canaan has five public schools:

Elementary School: East School, South School, West School

Middle School: Saxe Middle School

High School: New Canaan High School

There were 3,980 students enrolled in grades K-12 in the 2003-2004 school year and the total expenditure was $50,786,700.

New Canaan also has 3 private schools:

St. Aloysius School K-8
St. Luke's School: 5-12
New Canaan Country School: PS-9

New Canaan - Films Made In Town

The Capture of New York (1912) (a short documentary)
The Swimmer (1968)
The Ice Storm (1997)
The Object of My Affection (1998)
Pigeonholed (1999)
Fishing for Love (2001) (a comedy short)
Peter (2004)
The Stepford Wives (2004)
Red War Paint (2004) (a short documentary)

New Canaan Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 22.5 square miles (58.2 km²), of which, 22.1 square miles (57.3 km²) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.9 km²) of it (1.56%) is water. The town is served by the Merritt Parkway, and by a spur line of the Metro North railroad. The downtown area consists of many restaurants, an old movie theater, and antique shops. There are also several churches in town, as well as the historic Roger Sherman Inn.

The town is bounded on the north by Lewisboro and Pound Ridge in Westchester County, New York, on the east by Wilton, on the southeast by Norwalk, on the south by Darien and on the southwest and west by Stamford.

The Silvermine neighborhood (which also extends into Norwalk and Wilton) is in the southeast part of town.

New Caan History

In 1731, Connecticut's colonial legislature established Canaan Parish as a religious entity in northwestern Norwalk and northeastern Stamford. The right to form a Congregational church was granted to the few families scattered through the area. As inhabitants of Norwalk or Stamford, Canaan Parish settlers still had to vote, pay taxes, serve on juries, and file deeds in their home towns. Because Canaan Parish was not planned as a town, New Canaan, when incorporated in 1801, found itself without a central common, a main street or a town hall.

Until the Revolutionary War, New Canaan was primarily an agricultural community. After the war, New Canaan's major industry was shoe making. As New Canaan's shoe business gathered momentum early in the nineteenth century, instead of a central village, regional settlements of clustered houses, mill, and school developed into distinct district centers. Some of the districts were centered on Ponus Ridge, West Road, Oenoke Ridge, Smith Ridge, Talmadge Hill and Silvermine, a pattern which the village gradually outgrew.

With the 1868 advent of the railroad to New Canaan, many of New York City's wealthy residents discovered the quiet, peaceful area and built magnificent summer homes. Eventually, many of the summer visitors settled year-round, commuting to their jobs in New York City and creating the residential community that exists today.

Lewis Lapham, a founder of Texaco and great-grandfather of long-time Harper's Magazine editor Lewis H. Lapham, spent summers with his family at their estate that is now 300-acre (1.2 km2) Waveny Park next to Talmadge Hill and the Merrit Parkway.

New Canaan Media - Daily newspapers in the area

Two daily newspapers service the surrounding area.

The Hour of Norwalk
The Advocate of Stamford

New Canaan Media - Local weeklies and a monthly

New Canaan-Darien magazine. This glossy monthly is owned by Moffly Publications.

New Canaan Advertiser. This 100 year old weekly, is owned by the Hersam family of New Canaan and by Hersam Acorn Newsapapers, publishers of several local hometown weeklies. The paper is headquartered in town. The paper's publisher, V. Donald Hersam, Jr., is also the town treasurer and the former Chief of the New Canaan Fire Company #1.

New Canaan News-Review is a more recently established weekly covering the town. It is part of the Brooks Community Newspaper chain owned by Hearst Newspapers, which also owns the daily Connecticut Post in city of Bridgeport; and The Advocate in the city of Stamford.

New Canaan - National Register of Historic Places

Hampton Inn — 179 Oenoke Ridge; Also known as The Maples Inn, it was built by the Elwood brothers in Queene Anne, Colonial Revival style. (added November 27, 2004)

Hanford Davenport House — 353 Oenoke Ridge (added September 3, 1989)

John Rogers Studio — 33 Oenoke Ridge; built in 1878 by John Rogers, who was called "the people's sculptor" in the later 19th century. The studio houses a collection of the artist's famous groups of statuary, many sculpted on site. The studio was closed during needed restoration and scheduled to reopen in the summer of 2006. (added November 15, 1966) "He used this studio from 1876 to the end of his life. The John Rogers studio houses one of the finest collections of Rogers Groups in the nation."

Landis Gores House — 192 Cross Ridge Rd. "With its flat-roofed single-story form, full-height glass walls, and emphasis on horizontal planes, the house he designed for himself in New Canaan is an outstanding example" of modernist architecture. (added April 21, 2002)

Maxwell E. Perkins House — 63 Park St. (added June 6, 2004)

Philip Johnson Glass House — 798-856 Ponus Ridge Rd. (added March 18, 1997)

Richard and Geraldine Hodgson House — 881 Ponus Ridge Rd. (added February 28, 2005)

New Canaan - Notable institutions and organizations

New Canaan Historical Society, 13 Oenoke Ridge, operates seven museums, preserves five historic buildings, collects and preserves material thought to be of local historical value, and supports education programs such as school tours, special exhibits, seminars and publications on New Canaan history. The society was founded in 1889.

Silvermine Arts Guild, 1837 Silvermine Road
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New Canaan Fire Co. #1 Volunteer fire company serving since 1881.

New Canaan Red Cross

New Canaan Volunteer Ambulance Corps NCVAC - 100% Free, 100% Volunteer ambulance corps with three ambulances plus two paramedic fly-cars

New Canaan - Notable people, past and present

Thomas J. Baldwin, CEO of Morton's Restaurant Group, resident

Emily Barringer (1876-1961), physician and the first female ambulance surgeon, lived in town.

Glenn Beck, conservative TV Show host on Fox News.

Lorenzo Borghese, the bachelor for season 9 of The Bachelor

Solon Borglum, a sculptor

L. Paul Bremer, Director of the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance for post-war Iraq - raised in New Canaan

H. Keith H. Brodie, former Duke University president - former resident

Bliss Carman, Canadian poet - resident for the last 20 years of his life (1909-1929)

Anthony Comstock namesake of Comstock Law, born in town
(George Bernard Shaw coined "comstockery" after him), namesake of Comstock Hill Rd in town

Harry Connick Jr., singer - resident

Ann Coulter, commentator - raised in town

Norman Cousins, editor, peace activist - former resident

Roland Crandall, early animator - lived in town

A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist - former resident

Paul Dano, Actor - raised in town

Jack Douglas, writer - former resident

Phoebe Dunn (author) Writer and photographer - former resident (until her death)

Gerald Green (1922-2006), author of The Last Angry Man among other works, lived in town

Florence Harding, First Lady - According to the book Florence Harding: The First Lady, The Jazz Age, And The Death Of America's Most Scandalous President by Carl Sferrazza Anthony spent some time living across from the old Methodist Church on Main Street and Church as a young lady.

Katherine Heigl, actress - raised in town

Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric - lives in town

Philip C. Johnson (1906–2005), architect who built and lived in the famous Glass House in town

David Letterman, Late Show host - former resident

Christopher Lloyd, actor - distant relative of Lapham family who sold Waveny Park to New Canaan.

Douglas Marland, soap opera head writer

Martin Mull (b. 1943), actor and comedian of Roseanne and My Bodyguard, moved to town when he was 15 and graduated from New Canaan High School

David Neeleman, Founder of JetBlue Airways - resident

Eliot Noyes, Architect - former resident. Member of The Harvard Five, a group of architects including Philip Johnson, John Johansen, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores and John Black Lee who built modern homes in the town during period from the 1940s through the 70's.

Maxwell Perkins, the late, notable editor of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe and others - former resident

Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo, sports talk-show
personality formerly of WFAN radio, currently with Sirius XM Radio - resident

Paul Simon, singer and songwriter - resident

Warren Allen Smith, author of "Who's Who in Hell"
Stuart Symington, U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Air Force - died in town

Arthur Szyk, famous anti-Nazi cartoonist and book illustrator and artist

Bill Toomey, 1968 Olympic decathlon champion - former resident

Heidi Voight, Miss Connecticut 2006, actress- resident

Barry Williams of The Brady Bunch - former resident

Brian Williams, anchor of NBC Nightly News - resident
Max Pacioretty, Montreal Canadians forward

New Canaan Points of Interest

New Canaan Nature Center

Glass House

Waveny Park on South Avenue "was developed in 1912 by Lewis Lapham on what had been Prospect Farm, an early summer estate. In 1967 the Town acquired the 'castle' and 300 acres (1.2 km2) of surrounding parkland

New Canaan - References in popular culture

In the movie Fools Rush In, Matthew Perry's character grew up in New Canaan.

The exteriors of Waveny Mansion are used as Palmer Cortlandt's home in the ABC soap opera All My Children.

Karen suggests that Jack's father may be one of the "eight Black brothers of New Canaan, CT" in an episode of Will and Grace.

In the ABC drama Commander in Chief, Geena Davis' family home was in New Canaan

In the television program Carnivàle Brother Justin is shown to have founded New Canaan

The Neighbors are Scaring My Wolf by comic writer Jack Douglas was a 1968 book based on his experiences living in town.

In The Cricket In Times Square, main character Chester Cricket lives near New Canaan.

In one of the books in the series Gossip Girl, a minor character says he needs to stop in New Canaan.

The Official Preppy Handbook makes reference to New Canaan as one of the "preppiest" towns in the country.

In the ABC television series Sports Night, Managing Editor Isaac Jaffe (played by Robert Guillaume) lives in New Canaan.

In the 1947 movie Gentleman's Agreement, New Canaan is mentioned as a heavily anti-semitic town that won't allow real estate to be rented or sold to Jews.

New Canaan - The "Harvard Five" and modern homes

New Canaan was an important center of the modern design movement from the late 1940s through roughly the 1960s, when about 80 modern homes were built in town. About 20 have been torn down since then.

"During the late 1940s and 50s, a group of students and teachers from the Harvard Graduate School of Design migrated to New Canaan ... and rocked the world of architectural design", according to an article in PureContemporary.com, an online architecture design magazine. "Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John M. Johansen and Eliot Noyes -- known as the Harvard Five -- began creating homes in a style that emerged as the complete antithesis of the traditional build. Using new materials and open floor plans, best captured by Johnson's Glass House, these treasures are being squandered as buyers are knocking down these architectural icons and replacing them with cookie-cutter new builds.

"Other architects, well known (Frank Lloyd Wright, for example) and not so well known, also contributed significant modern houses that elicited strong reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing today. ... New Canaan came to be the locus of the modern movement's experimentation in materials, construction methods, space, and form", according to an online description of The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Mid-Century Modern Houses, by William D. Earls.

Some other New Canaan architects designing modern homes were Victor Christ-Janer, John Black Lee and Allan Gelbin.

The film The Ice Storm (1997) shows many of New Canaan's modern houses, both inside and out.