Westport Property Transfers: November 15th - 19th; Biggest Sale $4.5 Million on Beachside Avenue
Westport property transfers as reported by the Westport Town Clerk’s Office:
Total Conveyance Tax: $80,647.13
Total Sales: $32,258,854.94
Highest Transfer Price: 139 Beachside Avenue: $4,500,000
Lowest Transfer Price: 38 Crescent Park Road: $410,000
Transfers:
139 Beachside Avenue: $4,500,000
1 Fieldcrest Road: $3,130,000
58 West Parish Road: $3,000,000
5 Winding Court: $2,850,000
6 Peabody Lane: $2,515,000
5C Gorham Avenue: $2,350,000
10 Keyser Road: $2,000,000
3 Valley Field Road: $1,650,000
3 Imperial Landing: $1,575,000
61 Compo Road North: $1,452,000
8 Side Hill Road: $1,450,000
44 Hiawatha Lane: $1,414,354.94
7 Prospect Road: $1,300,000
32 Lincoln Street: $1,132,500
43 Crescent Road: $995,000
50 Edgewater Commons Lane: $535,000
38 Crescent Park Road: $410,000
Morning Weather Report
Today
Sunny, with a high near 45. West wind 10 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Tonight
Partly cloudy, with a low around 28. West wind 3 to 8 mph.
Tomorrow
Partly sunny, with a high near 46. West wind 5 to 10 mph.
Tomorrow Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 29. West wind 3 to 7 mph. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph.
Downtown Christmas Trees Light Up the Night
The Westport Fire Department tree brings red hues to the Parker Harding/Post Road intersection. The Christmas trees, decorated and sponsored by various local organizations and businesses, can be found dotting the sidewalks of downtown Westport this season.
Fruma Markowitz Photographs Welcomed as Westport Book Shop’s December Exhibitor
The Westport Book Shop The Westport Book Shop is pleased to welcome photographer Fruma Markowitz as its guest art exhibitor for the month of December, at the Book Shop’s Drew Friedman Art Place.
Fruma is exhibiting part of an ongoing project entitled “Sara’s Trousseau,” with an installation of nine Cyanotype prints and collages using photographic images she made of non-matching teacups she inherited from her mother, together with imprints of crocheted and embroidered linens she’s found at flea markets and tag sales. Cyanotype is a historical photographic process, invented in 1842, where a light-sensitive photographic emulsion applied to paper turns a brilliant Prussian blue when exposed to a UV light source, such as the sun. Each print, like the teacups, is unique. Some have also been embellished with gold ink, or toned with . . . tea!
Fruma says her photography functions as a visual diary, and she makes photographic images every day. “I try to bring focus to everyday things that other people might overlook, but that are significant, troubling or wonderful to me,” she said. Family life, womanhood, and urban and natural environments are where she most often draws inspiration for making images.
Fruma earned a BFA in photography at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem, and a Masters in Interactive Technology at NYU. She is a member of The Artists Collective of Westport, The Silvermine Guild, the Rowayton Arts Center, the Ridgefield Guild of Artists, and The Creative Center in NYC.
Westport Book Shop, a nonprofit used book store, is downtown Westport’s only source for used and antiquarian books, vintage vinyl records, and other media. It is located at 23 Jesup Road, right across Jesup Green from the Westport Library. The art exhibit is open to the public during the Book Shop’s business hours: Tuesdays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sundays from Noon to 5 p.m. (closed Mondays). Fruma Markowitz’s work will be on exhibit through December 31, 2021.
The Book Shop’s “Drew Friedman Art Place” is an area of the store dedicated to exhibiting the work of community artists year-round, on a rotating basis. Miggs Burroughs, a Trustee of the Drew Friedman Community Arts Center, and a founding member of The Artists Collective of Westport, is curating these exhibits, which change monthly.