Boston Post Road Historic District (Darien, Connecticut)


The Boston Post Road Historic District in Darien, Connecticut is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. At that time, it included 26 structures, of which 23 were contributing buildings. The district is defined by the First Congregational Church and the old town hall building, which was originally built as a school, and connected by the modern Boston Post Road when it was originally laid out in 1806. It also includes a row of 12 nineteenth-century houses and additional properties on Brookside Road and on Old Kings Highway including the Bates-Scofield House built in 1736 and used as an office by the Darien Historical Society.