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Gene Wilder's House (deceased)
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This was the 272 year old $1.4M Connecticut home of actor Gene Wilder. Wilder's hilarious and iconic roles in films like Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory made him an unforgettable figure in comedy. Known for starring in numerous Mel Brooks pictures, Wilder made a name for himself with outrageous and often risque humor.
Born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wilder would change his name in at age 26 and make his go at the big time. Wilder would work odd jobs in New York until his big break with The Producers, after he and Mel Brooks hit it off. Wilder married beloved starlette the eternally lovable Gilda Radner known for her Saturday Night Live fame. Wilder was devastated when she died of ovarian cancer in 1989. In his twilight years, Wilder became a novelist, writing a memoir and several serious novels. Gene Wilder died on August 29, 2016 at the age of 83.
This modest Connecticut home on a lot of 125,888 Sqft (2.89 acres) i sonly 6,007 Sqft with 4 bed and 4 bath. This is the home where Wilder died of complications of Alzheimer's in 2016. The home is still held by the Wilder estate but may be sold.
Wilder’s home in Bel Aire, was recently purchased by Elon Musk for $17 Million. The ranch-style home once owned by Wilder was 2,800 square feet with three bedrooms and 4.5 bedrooms, a kidney-shaped swimming pool and a guest cottage.
Wilder at the time of his passing only had a net worth of $20 million. The 2 time Academy and 1 time Golden Globe award nominated Legend has been immortalized by his huge influence on comedy. Wilder will forever be remembered for showing us a world of imagination and pure comedy.

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) Headquarters
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Rihanna's Home (former)
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This is the home R&B singer Rihanna lived in with the owners Evan & Jackie Rogers, the people who discovered her in her homeland of Barbados . The home is in Connecticut. She currently resides in San Diego.

Chris Hansen's House
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By: tlp333.
The former television journalist, best known for his work on the "Dateline NBC" television segment "To Catch a Predator", lives here.

Most expensive private islands #5
DonMartini (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: DonMartini.
Caritas Island Fairfield County, Conn.
$25 million plus (A$33.4 million, C$28.3 million, €20.8 million, £14.3 million, Rs1.1 billion)
It's a rare luxury to have a private island an hour's drive from Manhattan. This four-acre island is connected to Connecticut via a private road, and features a 14,000-square foot stone manor house, built in 1906 for members of the Phelps Stokes family. The mansion has a marble entryway, herringbone oak floors, marble skirting, a two-story gourmet kitchen and library with a cathedral ceiling. The estate includes a lap pool, saltwater pool, 200-foot deepwater dock, guest cottage, caretaker's cottage and gardens.

Cyndi Lauper's House
Gorecki (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Gorecki.
The Grammy award-winning singer lives here.

Gilbert Haroche's House
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By: tlp333.
This is the 263-acre home of the Liberty Travel co-founder and his wife. The 20,000+ sq ft estate, known as "Hillandale", has been on the market for a whopping $95M. Although the city and state below are Connecticut, half of the estate actually lies in Pound Ridge (NY). The high price of the luxury property is partially due to it's large amount of land so close to New York City.

Vivian Vance's House (Former)
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By: jdubble07.
Vivian Vance was an American television and theater actress and singer. Vance is best known for her role as Ethel Mertz, sidekick to Lucille Ball on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, and as Vivian Bagley on The Lucy Show.
Vanced lived here from 1961-1967.

Rich Robinson's House (former)
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By: tlp333.
The musician, and a founding member of the rock group "The Black Crowes", sold this home in March of 2009 for $1.21M, according to public records.

NBC Sports studios
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By: milwhcky.
In 2012-13, NBC Sports moved its operations into this building. The 200,000 square feet facility features six studios and control rooms, a large newsroom, and dozens of graphics and editing rooms. The building has over 1000 miles of broadcast and network cable.
All NBC Sports studio shows will be based out of this location, except for Football Night in America, which will remain in New York's Rockefeller Center.

Don Brownstein's House
Xeba73 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Xeba73.
Brownstein is the founder of mortgage hedge fund SPM ($3.2B AUM). In 2010, he was named hedge fund manager of the year for funds managing $1bn or more by Bloomberg Markets magazine.

David Cone's House
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By: Xeba73.
The former MLB pitcher owns this property.

Robert Newman's House
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By: JohnRobie.
The actor, most famous fpr portraying Josh Lewis on "Guiding Light" lives here.

'Glen House' by Richard Neutra
pmoore66 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pmoore66.
1960
Later occupied by architect, Victor Bisharat, who applied his Disneyland design training to several commercial buildings in Stamford

Gutzon Borglum's House (Former)
jdubble07 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jdubble07.
Gutzon Borglum was a Danish-American artist and sculptor famous for creating the monumental presidents' heads at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, the famous carving on Stone Mountain near Atlanta, as well as other public works of art including a head of Abraham Lincoln, exhibited in Theodore Roosevelt's White House and held in the United States Capitol Crypt in Washington, D.C.

World Wrestling Entertainment
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The Walter N. Maguire Memorial Carillon in Maguire Memorial Tower at First Presbyterian Church
Turneasterne (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Turneasterne.
"The Maguire Memorial Carillon of First Presbyterian Church, Stamford, Connecticut is a 56-bell instrument consisting of 22 bells cast by Gillett and Johnston from the original Nestle Carillon of 36 bells installed in 1948, and 34 bells cast by Paccard in 1967. (A detailed history of this instrument is given in the 1982 BULLETIN of the GCNA.) The bourdon weighs 6,830 lbs. and sounds the note B2. It is connected at the console to B flat 2. Except for the first B2 and C#3 (console), the instrument is chromatic to g7, almost five octaves higher. The largest 11 bells are housed in the lower bell chamber; three of these, forming a major triad based upon the bourdon, are arranged in full swinging mountings. The 45 smaller bells are housed in the upper bell chamber. The console, located in a teakwood cabin between the bell chambers is of "Bigelow Standard" design. In addition to the mechanical carillon action, the 20 largest bells are playable electrically from the organ; an automatic clock-controlled mechanism plays the Cambridge Quarters on bells 6, 11, 13, and 15, with the hour struck on the bourdon. Although the beauty and clarity of the tone of this instrument had been acclaimed from the outset by all, many, including the resident carillonneur, had felt that the action was uneven and rather heavy, particularly in the pedals, with consequent difficulty in controlling the instrument. Accordingly, over a period of two years, a number of carillon consultants were called in to examine the carillon, and to submit proposals for its improvement. The I.T. Verdin Co. of Cincinnati was selected to perform the needed work, some of which was necessitated by 13 years of moderate to heavy usage, but of which the balance stemmed from problems in the original installation, which Dr. Bigelow did not live to see completed. Starting from the top, literally, isolation material and provision for expansion and contraction of the supporting beams were placed on the smallest 27 bells, effectively eliminating the "knocking" sound caused by the former rigid clamping to the supporting beams. All recalling springs were replaced, and counter springs were applied to the lower medium and bass bells. All clappers were removed, cleaned, painted, and replaced with renewed lubrication, and all headbolts drawn, inspected, and painted before reinstallation. New newprene isolation material was also installed for bells 12-29, and all transmission bars were removed, and the bearings cleaned and lubricated. A new umbrella system eliminated leakage and the former friction at that point. At the console, new heavier-pattern adjusters were installed above the music rack, eliminating the necessity of removing the rack when adjusting; all keys and pedals were side bushed with bushing cloth, and all console wood and metal parts were completely refinished. Rear pivot points of the keys were honed and bushed with Teflon, and the first eleven keys, which are extended to the rear for downward connections to the lower bell-chamber, were reinforced, to prevent the former flexing under pressure. A new music rack, long enough to accommodate seven pages, was installed. New pedal springs were installed as well. Throughout the instrument great care was used in lining up and plumbing elements of the action; this resulted in the movement of both the console, and many of the transmission bar arms, in order to obtain the correct pull lines. In the lower bell chamber, new hammers were placed on the smaller of the two swinging bells, and rigid aluminum tubing with stainless terminations and clavier connections replaced wires on the six largest bells; the mechanism of these was considerably simplified: the action on any bell does not change direction more than twice; formerly, the action of bell #3 involved five changes of direction, and some bells had three transmission bars. Finally, in addition to much needed work on mountings, bearings, woodwork, clappers, and other refurbishing and corrections, the electrical mechanism which involves individual motors operating extra internal clappers, was cleaned, lubricated, and re-regulated throughout. The carillon was first played publicly after renovation by George Matthew, Jr., and Rick Watson on the Sunday before Christmas, 1981. It now provides the sensitivity and achieves the brilliance and grandeur that Dr. Bigelow had envisioned in this, his last and finest instrument. The mixture of open surface and enclosure of the two bells chambers, the happy combination of the English and French bells, and the wide range produce a sound with both clarity and depth, on which music of all periods may be effectively played, and which blends well with instruments on special occasions. The instrument carries up to 1-1/2 miles on quiet days with favorable wind, but is not overpowering in the churchyard and nearby streets."

Lord & Taylor
Turneasterne (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Lord & Taylor, colloquially known as L&T, or LT, based in New York City, is the oldest upscale, specialty-retail department store chain in the United States. This is the Stamford, CT location.
"In 2009, the city of Stamford, Connecticut listed the 150,000 square foot Lord & Taylor at 110 High Ridge Road on the state's list of landmark buildings — after the building had been inadvertently made more prominent by the razing of adjacent trees. Andrew Geller had designed the three-story building in 1969 while with Loewy/Snaith. Richard Longstreth, director of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at George Washington University, said the store's case for preservation was 'quite straightforward, based on the significance of the company it has housed, the nature of its siting, the firm that designed the building, and as a now rare survivor of its type.'"

Gary Dell'Abate's House
jdubble07 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: jdubble07.
Gary Dell'Abate also known by the nickname Baba Booey, is an American radio producer who has been the executive producer of The Howard Stern Show since 1984.

Rockrimmon Country Club
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By: neotrix.
The 18-hole "Rockrimmon" course at the Rockrimmon Country Club facility in Stamford, Connecticut features 6,832 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72 . The course rating is 73.8 and it has a slope rating of 128. Designed by Orrin Smith/Robert Trent Jones, Sr., the Rockrimmon golf course opened in 1949.

Marion Castle
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Stamford Harbor Ledge lighthouse
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'Stamford Mini-Park' by Jim Sanborn
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This "scroll" details the 1751 Mashpee Petition in Algonquin, English and Binary

Sabatiello's ("Kitchen Nightmares")
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By: kkeps.
Historical imagery from 9/08, seven months after the episode was filmed. The restaurant would close that December.

The Fish Church (First Presbyterian Church) by Wallace Harrison
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Completed in 1958.

SBC Restaurant & Brewery (Stamford)
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'The Guardian' by Charles O Perry
pmoore66 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pmoore66.
1983

Trump Parc Stamford
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By: kkeps.
Tallest building in Stamford

'Thrust' by Alexander Liberman
1980-81

Bernard Nussbaum's House
Bernard Nussbaum is an American attorney, best known for having served as White House Counsel under President Bill Clinton.

'RBS Greenwich Capital Headquarters' by Adamson Associates
2009

Hoyt-Barnum House

'One Stamford Plaza' by Cesar Pelli

'GTE Headquarters' by Victor Bisharat

'First Presbyterian Church' by Wallace Harrison

'St. John Towers' by Victor Bisharat
Slated for demolition...

'High Ridge Park #2' by Victor Bisharat
c1967
Office park with several Bisharat gems

'Landmark Square' by Victor Bisharat

'High Ridge Park #1' by Victor Bisharat
c1967
Office park with several Bisharat gems

'High Ridge Park #5' by Victor Bisharat
Office park with several Bisharat gems

'The Childrens School' by Maryann Thompson