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Welcome to the Branford Center Home page. The Branford Center Home page provides as much information as possible on Branford Center. Knowing Branford Center’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Branford Center’s Home page, you will also find Branford Center’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Branford Center has a population of 5845. 49.4% of Branford Center’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.6 are female. 39.9% of Branford Center is married and 42.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $256,309, and the average rent is $1,274. Household median income in Branford Center is $68,067, and the individual median income is $40,164. Branford Center’s Ethnic is the following: White(87.4%), Black(5.9%), Asian(4.7%), Hispanic(3%), Multiple(1.5%), Other(0.5%).


The Branford Center Historic District was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The historic district represents the area of the traditional town center and excludes Branford Point. The designated portion is an irregularly-shaped 250-acre (100 ha) area that includes 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.": 64–65 Architectural styles represented in the Branford Center Historic District 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 Blackstone Memorial Library," designed by Solon Spencer Beman of Chicago.: 6  The library incorporates Tennessee marble and features a domed, octagonal rotunda.: 28  According to the historic district nomination, "relatively little remains in Branford Center that evokes its distant 17th- and early 18th century past.": 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.


Government buildings include the Branford Town Hall, from 1857, a Greek Revival building. Religious institution buildings in the district include: the First Baptist Church, from 1840, at 975 Main Street St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church's rectory from c. 1925 (contributing) and church from 1974 (non-contributing) First Congregational Church, at 1009 Main Street, a brick and stone building from 1843 in Greek Revival style, with Italianate addition from later in the century


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