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==Notable buildings== {{Expand section|date=August 2010}} {|class=wikitable |[[File:Wauregan Mill.jpg|left|150px]]||width=150px|'''Wauregan Mills'''||The main mill building, which is currently vacant, is H-shaped, with the first section (northern half of front mill) first constructed in 1853. This section has four stories and is about 250 by {{convert|50|ft|m}} with a hoist tower topped with an Italianate belfry. In 1858, the southern half of the front mill was built with an identical tower. The rear or western mill was built after the Civil War in 1867-68. The two buildings are connected by a center section spanning the wheel pits in the power canal. The rear mill has five stories and also has two towers on its eastern facade but without belfries. One the ends of each building are smaller structures originally used as picker houses, where raw cotton bales are first opened.<ref name=nrhpnom/> As of June 2023, the mill and neighboring land was listed for sale on LoopNet for $6,000,000 by the current owner. |- |[[File:Wauregan CT Mop Manufacturing.jpg|left|150px]]||'''Company Store'''||The former company store, now occupied by the Connecticut Mop Manufacturing Company, was built in 1875. The 2Β½-story building was designed with a combination of Italianate and Greek Revival styles and has a clapboard-covered, asphalt-shingled roof. The Greek revival style is highlighted by the paneled corner pilasters while the Italianate detailing is shown by the cornice brackets and bracketed door hoods. The company store enabled workers to buy fresh food and milk that were produced in the company farm north of the village.<ref name=nrhpnom/> |- | ||'''Former Congregational Church''' || The Wauregan Congregational Church was built in 1873 in the [[Gothic revival|High Victorian Gothic]] style with its wooden trim worked to look like stone buttresses and corbelling. The church has since been demolished. The main facade had double entry doors under an arched portico. Above the portico was a [[stained glass window]]. A bell tower also stood on the east of the main facade.<ref name=nrhpnom/> |- | ||'''Former firehouse and clubhouse''' || The former Wauregan firehouse and clubhouse on Front Street is a two-story structure that was originally used by the Atwood Hose Company, which was organized in 1898. The upper floor was used as a reading room and the village jail was attached to this building. The building is now used as a coffee shop.<ref name=nrhpnom/> |- |[[File:Wauregan Atwood Firehouse.jpg|left|150px]] ||'''Atwood Hose Fire Company''' || The modern fire house now used by the Atwood Hose Company was built in 1981 and is located on Route 205 further east from the original fire house. It is a two-bay cement block structure with brick front facade.<ref name=nrhpnom/> |- | ||'''Wauregan Post Office'''|| |- | ||'''Mill workers' housing'''|| |- | ||'''Supervisors' houses'''|| There are eight extant duplex supervisors' houses in the village that are located further uphill from the mill from the workers' houses. These supervisors' houses were built in two distinct time periods. The earliest houses were built with [[Greek revival]] elements with three of the surviving supervisor's houses exhibiting this style. The later houses (five surviving structures) are plainer-looking with some Victorian detailing. These houses have fieldstone foundations and gable roofs. The main facade has a central double entrance under a wide, flat-roofed portico and is six bays wide.<ref name=nrhpnom/> |- | ||'''Boarding houses'''|| |- | ||'''J.W. Atwood residence'''<br>(Putnam Road)|| |- | ||'''J.S. Atwood residence'''<br>(Brooklyn Road)|| |- | |'''Frank Barber & Son Livery''' |Francois Bombardier and son Joseph's livery was at the end of S. Walnut Street. The livery rented out horses and carriages as well as supplied two hearses, one black and one white, for local funerals. |}
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