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Branford Center Historic District
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| Location: | Roughly bounded by US I, Branford River on the East and South, Monroe, and Kirkham Sts., Branford, Connecticut |
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| Area: | 250 acres (100 ha) |
| Architect: | Beman,S. S.; Et al. |
| Architectural style: | Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Queen Anne |
| Governing body: | Private, and U.S. POSTAL SERVICE |
| NRHP Reference#: | 87000636[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | May 6, 1987 |
The Branford Center Historic District is an irregularly-shaped 250-acre (100 ha) historic district in Branford, Connecticut's Branford Center neighborhood. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. In 1987, the district included 557 contributing buildings out of a total of 706 buildings in the district, including garages, carriage houses, and other structures. It includes two other contributing sites: the Center Cemetery and the Saint Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery. The district boundaries were drawn to exclude modern construction such as the Branford High School and to exclude older buildings that did not retain their "historic architectural integrity".[2]:64-65
"Relatively little remains in Branford Center that evokes its distant 17th- and early 18th century past."[2]:49 The district, instead, includes remnants of late 19th and early 20th century industrial, commercial, and residential history.
Industry is represented in buildings of the Malleable Iron Fittings Company and the Atlantic Wire Company.
Architectural styles represented include Greek Revival architecture, Queen Anne architecture, and Colonial Revival architecture, Italianate architecture, Federal architecture, Gothic Revival architecture, Second Empire architecture, Colonial architecture, Tudor Revival architecture and Bungalow architecture. These are mostly vernacular buildings. Of buildings designed by professional architects, the most significant is the "classically inspired, monumental 1893 James Blackwell Memorial Library", designed by S. S. Beman of Chicago.[2]:6 The library incorporates Tennessee marble and features a domed, octagonal rotunda.[2]:28
Government buildings include the Branford Town Hall, from 1857, a Greek Revival building.
Religious institution buildings in the district include:
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