Danbury

The Octagon House, in Danbury, Connecticut, United States, is located on Spring Street. It is considered the best octagon house of the 12 that... survive in Connecticut. In 1973 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places to avert its demolition in urban renewal. It is west of downtown Danbury in a residential area approximately midway along Spring between Beaver and New streets. The house itself is set back further from the street than its neighbors. It is a three-story building of one-foot–thick concrete walls faced in stucco. An octagonal cupola rises from the center of the almost flat roof, with two brick chimneys rising from the exterior walls at the southwest and southeast facets. Verandas with cast iron railings and supports run around the upper stories. The wide roof eaves, both on the main house and the cupola, have scroll brackets. The ornate ironwork of the verandas contrasts with the simple wooden door and window surrounds. The house was built in 1852 by Daniel Starr. He was following closely the precepts of octagon houses laid out by Orson Squire Fowler in his book A Home for All, all the way to the use of concrete as the main structural material.
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1,350,000 square feet of office space, including parking for 2850 cars, built in the early 1980's.

Rogers Park is a baseball venue in Danbury, Connecticut, USA, located at the end of Main Street and South Street. The field has been home to the... Danbury Westerners of the New England Collegiate Baseball League since 1995. The facility also contains several other youth baseball and softball facilities, in addition to the main field, which is home to the Westerners.
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The John Rider House is located on Main Street in Danbury, Connecticut, United States. It is a wooden frame house dating to the late 18th century.... It remained in the Rider family until 1925. In the 1940s it was saved from demolition and restored, the beginning of historic preservation efforts in the city. today it is home to the Danbury Museum and Historical Society. It is the oldest house in the city still in its original location. In 1977 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Six years later, when the Main Street Historic District was designated and listed on the Register, it was considered a contributing property as the oldest building in the district. The house is located on the east side of Main Street at the south end of the historic district. Its 1.25-acre lot includes, at its rear, the 1836 John Dodd Shop, Danbury's oldest commercial building. Also owned by the museum, it is not part of the Register listing and is screened from view by large trees. Around the house the neighborhood is urban and extensively developed.
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Jonathan Gregory Brandis was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Brandis was born in Danbury, Connecticut. He was the only child of Mary,... a teacher and personal manager, and Gregory Brandis, a food distributor and firefighter. He began his career as a child model and began acting in television commercials. Brandis landed a recurring role on One Life to Live when he was six years old. He moved to Los Angeles with his family at age nine, and made guest appearances on shows such as L.A. Law, Who's the Boss?, Murder, She Wrote, The Wonder Years, Full House and Kate & Allie. At the age of fourteen, he received his first starring role in The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter as Bastian Bux, a young boy who returns to a world of wonder on the wings of his imagination. That same year, Brandis played the young "Stuttering Bill" Denbrough, the main character in the 1990 film Stephen King's It, based on the epic horror novel by Stephen King. Following this, Brandis appeared in Sidekicks co-starring Chuck Norris and Ladybugs with actor/comedian Rodney Dangerfield.
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Royce D. Applegate was an American actor and screenwriter. Born in Oklahoma, his most visible role was that of Chief Petty Officer Manilow Crocker... on the first season of the Steven Spielberg-produced television series seaQuest DSV. In 1985, Applegate played tragic family man-turned-kidnapper Donald Brown, a bereaved father who abducts the character Sam in order to replace his own dead son, on the season premiere of Diff'rent Strokes last season when it moved from NBC to ABC. Applegate portrayed Confederate General James L. Kemper in two Ronald F. Maxwell movies, Gettysburg and Gods and Generals . On New Year's Day 2003, Applegate died in his Hollywood Hills home in a fire just one week after his 63rd birthday.
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Laura Nyro /ˈnɪəroʊ/ NEAR-oh was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist. She achieved critical acclaim with her own... recordings, particularly the albums Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and New York Tendaberry, and had commercial success with artists such as Barbra Streisand and The 5th Dimension recording her songs. Her style was a hybrid of Brill Building-style New York pop, jazz, gospel, rhythm and blues, show tunes, rock and soul. Between 1968 and 1970, a number of artists had hits with her songs: The 5th Dimension with "Blowing Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "Sweet Blindness", "Save The Country" and "Black Patch"; Blood, Sweat & Tears and Peter, Paul & Mary with "And When I Die"; Three Dog Night and Maynard Ferguson with "Eli's Coming"; and Streisand with "Stoney End", "Time and Love", and "Hands off the Man ". Nyro's best-selling single was her recording of Carole King and Gerry Goffin's "Up on the Roof." On April 14, 2012, Laura Nyro was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Chester William Powers, Jr. was an American singer-songwriter, and a member of the rock group Quicksilver Messenger Service. He was also known by... the stage name "Dino Valenti" and, as a songwriter, as Jesse Oris Farrow. He wrote the famous 1960s song "Get Together". Before serving in the US Air Force and playing in the coffeehouses of Boston and Provincetown, Massachusetts, Powers had already performed as "Dino Valenti" with small rock bands in New England lounges. In the early 1960s he performed in East Village coffee-houses such as the Cock 'n' Bull and the Cafe Wha?, often with fellow singer-songwriter Fred Neil, and occasionally with Karen Dalton, Bob Dylan, Lou Gossett, Josh White, Len Chandler, Paul Stookey and others. He influenced other performers including Richie Havens, who continues to perform some of Powers' early "train songs". Powers was prevented from acquiring a cabaret license due to an earlier arrest, a requirement that was beginning to be imposed on Village entertainers at the time. By 1963 Valenti/Powers was in Los Angeles where folk-rock had already begun to coalesce.
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Dr. Ian K. Smith, M.D. is an American physician and author best known for his appearances on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club series, The View, and as a... correspondent for NBC News. He is also the host of HealthWatch with Dr. Ian Smith, a nationally-syndicated daily news feature heard on American Urban Radio Networks. He resides in Manhattan, New York City. Smith, a native of Danbury, Connecticut, graduated from Immaculate High School , received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1992, and a master’s in science education from Columbia University in 1993. He attended Dartmouth Medical School, but completed the last two years of his medical education and graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. In April 2007, Dr. Ian Smith launched the 50 Million Pound Challenge. The challenge is a national health initiative encouraging people to come together and take control of their health by getting fit, losing excess weight and turning back the deadly toll of weight-related diseases that threaten nearly half of Americans. The Challenge is a free campaign supported by national civic and health organizations.
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Jonathan Gregory Brandis was an American actor, director, and screenwriter. Brandis was born in Danbury, Connecticut. He was the only child of Mary,... a teacher and personal manager, and Gregory Brandis, a food distributor and firefighter. He began his career as a child model and began acting in television commercials. Brandis landed a recurring role on One Life to Live when he was six years old. He moved to Los Angeles with his family at age nine, and made guest appearances on shows such as L.A. Law, Who's the Boss?, Murder, She Wrote, The Wonder Years, Full House and Kate & Allie. At the age of fourteen, he received his first starring role in The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter as Bastian Bux, a young boy who returns to a world of wonder on the wings of his imagination. That same year, Brandis played the young "Stuttering Bill" Denbrough, the main character in the 1990 film Stephen King's It, based on the epic horror novel by Stephen King. Following this, Brandis appeared in Sidekicks co-starring Chuck Norris and Ladybugs with actor/comedian Rodney Dangerfield.
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Royce D. Applegate was an American actor and screenwriter. Born in Oklahoma, his most visible role was that of Chief Petty Officer Manilow Crocker... on the first season of the Steven Spielberg-produced television series seaQuest DSV. In 1985, Applegate played tragic family man-turned-kidnapper Donald Brown, a bereaved father who abducts the character Sam in order to replace his own dead son, on the season premiere of Diff'rent Strokes last season when it moved from NBC to ABC. Applegate portrayed Confederate General James L. Kemper in two Ronald F. Maxwell movies, Gettysburg and Gods and Generals . On New Year's Day 2003, Applegate died in his Hollywood Hills home in a fire just one week after his 63rd birthday.
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Lindsey Jacobellis is an American snowboarder from Stratton, Vermont. At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Jacobellis won the silver medal in Women's... Snowboard Cross's Olympics debut. She is also a seven-time snowboard cross champion at the X Games. She has been featured in several high-profile advertising campaigns, including a Visa commercial. During the gold medal final of the Snowboard Cross at the 2006 Winter Olympics on February 17, 2006, Jacobellis was approaching the end of the course with a 43-meter , three-second lead over Tanja Frieden of Switzerland. On the final jump, while showboating, Jacobellis attempted a method grab, landed on the edge of her snowboard, and fell. Frieden passed her to win the gold; Jacobellis recovered and settled for silver. In televised interviews, Jacobellis initially claimed the grab was meant to maintain stability, but later admitted that it was not necessary. She said "Snowboarding is fun; I was having fun." A year later at the 2007 Winter X Games, Jacobellis lost the lead in a fall near the finish line. She regained the gold medal in the same event at Winter X Games XII in 2008.
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James Mead is a guitarist and backing vocalist for the Christian rock band Kutless. He founded the band in 2000 with bandmates Jon Micah Sumrall and... Ryan Shrout. He has said he truly found God when he was 17, and has been a Christian ever since. Mead was born in Connecticut and lived in Ridgefield but moved to Oregon when he was 11 with his mom, because they were trying to get away from his abusive stepfather. Mead began to look for ways to take out everything he felt after all those years. He had said that playing guitar was the only constructive thing he did. Before high school, he got involved with drugs, and he stopped after being caught in eighth grade. By the time he was in high school, he had realized that it was a stupid mistake. Mead and his friend Josh Shroy, who is now the drummer of Falling Up, started a band in high school. He had been going to parties with their band, and became addicted to alcohol because of it. While getting into alcohol and drugs, the two accepted Jesus after being invited to Church by some friends.
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Dr. Ian K. Smith, M.D. is an American physician and author best known for his appearances on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club series, The View, and as a... correspondent for NBC News. He is also the host of HealthWatch with Dr. Ian Smith, a nationally-syndicated daily news feature heard on American Urban Radio Networks. He resides in Manhattan, New York City. Smith, a native of Danbury, Connecticut, graduated from Immaculate High School , received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1992, and a master’s in science education from Columbia University in 1993. He attended Dartmouth Medical School, but completed the last two years of his medical education and graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. In April 2007, Dr. Ian Smith launched the 50 Million Pound Challenge. The challenge is a national health initiative encouraging people to come together and take control of their health by getting fit, losing excess weight and turning back the deadly toll of weight-related diseases that threaten nearly half of Americans. The Challenge is a free campaign supported by national civic and health organizations.
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Kyle Rankin is a filmmaker. Kyle Rankin went to school at the University of Maine in Orono where he founded the University's Film and Video Club. It... was at the university that Rankin was star and co-producer of a soap opera on campus called "DORM", which was eventually released with the episodes compiled into one feature length film. He co-directed The Battle of Shaker Heights through the second season of HBO's Project Greenlight. He wrote and directed a movie produced by Icon Productions, called Infestation, it stars Chris Marquette, Ray Wise, Brooke Nevin and Kinsey Packard and was shot in summer 2007 in Bulgaria. He recently created the feature/web-series NUCLEAR FAMILY and lives in Los Angeles as an independent writer/director.
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