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OF DANBURY

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RIDGEWOOD

COUNTRY

CLUB

IN FOREGROUND

DANBURY, A THRIVING CONNECTI CUT CITY OF DISTINCTIVE CHARM
DANBURY, the Gatewa~ ' to :\"ew England, a prosperous, progressive city of 27.000 people, is charmingly
located in a setting of mountains and lakes in the
southwestern corner of Connecticut, where the foothills of the Berkshires begin to merge with the gradually sloping hinterland of the Long Island Sound
shore .
Although within twenty-fi,·e miles of tidewater and
included in the metropolitan area of New York City,
its lowest altitude is 400 feet above sea level, several
of its handsome residential thoroughfares are more
than 500 feet above sea level, and its encircling hills,
sloping to the borders of the city, rise to altitudes of
more than 1,000 feet.
Though a busy manufacturing center, it is also a
city of attractive homes . Its principal business streets
are broad and handsome. It has twenty-five miles of
paved streets and avenues in residential sections and

CITY

HALL

SQUARE

many miles of well-kept thoroughfares surfaced with
gravel, and shaded by magnificent elms and handsome
maples.
Danbury is ideally situated \Yith reference to travel
and shipping facilities. Sixty-five miles from the Grand
Central Terminal, 1 -ew York, the metropolis may be
reached by fast express trains on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, running via South Norwalk. The suburban train service of the Harlem division of the New York Central Railroad is available
at Brewster, N. Y., ten miles from the center of the
city. The Berkshire Hills line of the Danbury Division
of the New Haven system extends to Pittsfield, Mass.,
ninety miles north. Another line of the New Haven
system, with terminal points in Danbury, extends to
the Hudson river and :\Iaybrook, N . Y. on the west,
and to Waterbury, Hartford, and Boston, eastward.
Danbury is the southern terminus of the Litchfield

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WEST LAKE RESERVOIR

branch of the same system. Branches of the Danbury
Division also extend eastward to Bridgeport and New
Haven.
Rail traffic is supplemented by motor bus lines of
the New England Transportation Co., northward to
Canaan, southward to South Norwalk and eastward
to New Haven. Independently operated motor bus
lines connect with Bridgeport, New York, Pittsfield,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Waterbury and Ridgefield and
Brewster, N. Y.
The center of the hat manufacturing industry in
the United States, the city has more than fifty factories engaged in the production of fur felt and straw
hats and allied products, including hatter's materials,
machinery and supplies. Other manufactories produce
a wide variety of articles, including silks, electrical
goods, metal wares, electric light fixtures, insulating materials, general machinery, underwear, electric trucks,
ball and roller bearings, paper boxes, cigars, glue, cutlery, felt, etc.

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The city is the principal trading center of southwestern Connecticut and adjacent sections of New
York State. Its shopping and marketing facilities are
unsurpassed.
Educational, church and recreational facilities are
excellent. A new high school building modern and complete in construction and equipment has just been
erected, at a cost of a half million dollars. Grade
schools, public and parochial, rank with the best in
the state. The State Normal School, for which a $200,000 dormitory is just being completed, a finely equipped
State Trade School, Wooster School for Boys and
other private schools provide broad opportunities for
vocational and special education. A splendid recreation
ground is being created in connection with the High
School. Danbury also has an aviation field under construction.
The city has fifteen churches of various denominations, an excellent public hospital, four strong, successful banking institutions. Total savings deposits over

PUBLIC LIBRARY

THE DANBURY CLUB

DANBURY

HIGH SCHOOL

NORMAL

SCHOOL DORMITORY

$20,000,000, and increasing at the rate of over
$1,000,000 a year. Total commercial clearings in 1926
were $87,359,056. A Building and Loan Association
with assets of over a half a million dollars. Also two
daily newspapers, three commodious theatres splendid
public library, a completely motorized fire d~partment
of ten companies, an efficient police department, a municipally owned public water system supplied from six
reservoirs.
The Danbury Fair, the fame of which is countrywide, is one of the city's established institutions and
annually attracts more than 100,000 visitors. It opens
the first Monday in October and continues through the
week.
The Ridgewood Country Club, occupying the former
Ridgewood Stock Farm of 100 acres, has every facility
of a high class country club, including an eighteen-hole
golf course splendidly kept and of rare scenic beauty.
The surrounding country, rolling, rich in agricultura l
resources, its hills heavily wooded and its lakes aquatic

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RIDGEWOOD

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NORMAL

SCH OOL

gems in settings of emerald hills, is ideal for vacation
recreation, or as a place of summer homes.
Danbury will bid welcome with open-hearted hospitality the visitor, tourist, vacationist, home-seeker or
employment-seeker, and offers advantages and opportunities that it believes few other cities can equal to
the industry seeking a location in territory adjacent to
New York and convenient to the great markets of the
East.

DANBURY AS A CITY OF HOMELIKE
HOMES
IF you are interested in Danbury as a city of homes,
consult the Danbury
Merchant's
Association, the
Advertising Club of Danbury or the Danbury R eal
Estate Board.
Danbury is an ideal place of residence. It possesses
practically all the advantages of any modern, well-

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DANBURY

AMERICAN LEGION HOME

governed city, with the quiet and charm of the country. It is a city of comfortable homes, fine broad
streets, splendid stores, excellent schools and churches
and friendly, hospitable people.
Whether you want an all-the-year round home, or
a restful retreat for the summer, where you may have
at your service the conveniences of the city, Danbury
can meet your needs.
Danbury is within easy rail or motor distance of
New York and other large centers. The Bronx and
Westchester Parkway is soon to be extended to within
a few miles of this city. There is now a choice of half
a dozen attractive motor routes into the metropolis.
No section of the country is surrounded by a more
delightful countryside or possesses a greater number of
beautiful scenic drives. Beautiful lakes with wooded
shores abound in this locality. Lake Danbury, the
largest and most beautiful body of water in Connecticut, formed by the construction of a great hydraulic
power reservoir winding in and out among the hills

THE

RIDGEWOOD

SCHOOL BAND

BEGINNING

OF THE BERKSHIRE

TRAIL

and mountains of the lower Berkshires, will be fourteen miles long, its southern point extending close to
the Danbury city line. This great basin soon to be
filled, will make the country roundabout Danbury
more than ever a summer paradise.
Scores of other lake s, among them Lake Zoar and
the wooded shores of the Housatonic, Lake l\!Iahopac,
Lake Waramaug, Bantam Lake, Lake Waccabuc,
Spectacle Lakes, Lake Hallahwah and the great reservoirs of New York city's Croton watershed ; re within
easy driving distance of Danbury.
Severa i delightful
bathing and cottage resorts on Long Island Sound are
only an hour's motor drive away.
Many desirable homes are available in Danbury and
in the surrounding country, of which this city is the
center, it is still possible to find many charming old
places that may be acquired as country homes, along
the lakes and streams, as well as on the hillsides and
in the open stretches of country ideal bungalow and
camp sites are available.

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"THE GATEWAY TO NEW ENGLAND "
The completion of the Bear Mountain Bridge spanning the
Hudson River, 40 miles west of Danbury, established the city
as "The Gateway to New England." Practically all traffic from
both the South and West enters Danbury before distributing
itself throughout New England.
Commencing at Danbury the beautiful Berkshire Trail,
winding northward mile after mile through wonderfully picturesque scenery, leads to the Berkshire Hills.
To the east, fine paved roads traverse the typical rolling hills
of Connecticut to Waterbury and Hartford and on to Springfield and Boston.
Twenty-two miles south of Danbury lies Long Island Sound .
A new concrete highway connects Danbury with the beaches
and pleasure resorts along the coast.
D anbury, itself, is replete with interesting and beautifu 1
spo t s, all access ible by good roads .
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HOTEL GREEN , JOHN HARRIS, MANAGER
"A HOTEL PAR EXCELLENCE"

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DANBURY AS AN I DUSTRIAL CENTER
IF you are interested in Danbury as an industrial
center; if you wish to know more about its opportunities and the things it has to offer the manufacturing
or business concern seeking a location in this section
of the country, write the Danbury 1Ierchant's Association, The Advertising Club, or the Danbury Real
Estate Board. If you chance to be passing through
our city stop and look us up. We will welcome you.
We will be glad and proud to show you the city and
what it has to offer.
Taxes in Danbury are relatively low, desirable factory locations are relatively reasonable in comparison
with those of larger manufacturing centers, and production costs are lower, because of these and other
favorable factors.
Danbury is a busy, happy, peaceful, prosperous,
progressive manufacturing
city.
We make hatsmore of them than any other city in the United States,

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CHURCH

more probably than any other city in the world.
"Danbur y Crowns Them All" is our industrial slogan.
Danbury crowns them well, too. The quality of the
products of our hat factories justifies that assertion.
No better hats are made than those produced by Danbury factories.
Hats do not constitute our sole manufacturing interest, howeyer. We have many other industries . We
make a wide variety of goods. Our factories engaged
in other lines of production are as busy and prosperous as those that make hats. \Ve wish to add to our
industries, to diversify our products further. We are
close to some of the greatest markets in the country.
Our shippin g facilities are excellent. Our constantly
growing program of building is pro viding additional
homes for workers. Few cities can offer more attractive inducements, more wholesome em ·ironment, bet ter business and living conditions.

ST JA MES' CHURCH

ST P ETE R'S CHU~C li

THE MALLORY

HAT CO.

DANBURY, CITY OF HATS
DANBURY, today, is one of those highly concentrated communitie s that stand for definite, inten sive things.
Just as Pittsburg means Steel, and Akron means Rubber, so DANBURY stands synonymous with Hats.
The MALLORY product, embracing fine felt and
straw hats for men and women, has been a leading
factor in giving it this distinction since 1823.
MALLORY HATS have been made and distributed
from Danbury.
MALLORY salesmen have been
carrying the message of DANBURY to the outside
world. Unceasing advertising, forceful and out-standing in the leading Magazines, Trade Papers, and Dailies have made THE MALLORY HAT COMPANY,
Danbury, Conn., the best known national advertiser
of hats in the country and have kept l\IALLORY and
DANBURY continuously in the public mind.
DORAN BROTHERS are patentees and builders
of the most highly developed automatic fur hat making machines used in the hat industry.
The firm's

DORAN

BROS.,

HATTING

MACHINERY

factory building and its mechanical equipment is the
most modern in the country devoted to the development and manufacture of fur felt hat machinery.
THE AMERICAN
INSULATOR
CORPORATION, manufactures molded composition parts for
electrical wiring devices and for almost all electrical
insulating purposes. In its hot molding division the
plant produces articles manufactured from a material
known to the trade as Bakelite, which is used not only
for electrical insulation purposes, but in various other
industries, for such purposes as chemical and cosmetic
containers, gear shift control balls and many other
automobile purposes. The American Insulator Corporation occupies 45,000 square feet of floor space and
employs in excess of 200 people.

THE AMERICAN

INSULATOR

CORP.

THE

THE FRANK H. LEE CO1IPA;-JY, manufacturers
of men's fur felt hats, employing 900 persons, is one
of the industrial bulwarks of Danbury.
Its payroll
is a substantial factor in the material progress of trade
and prosperity with which the city is favored. 1Ir.
Frank H. Lee, the president and guiding spirit of the
company, began manufacturing hats more than thirtyfive years ago, and under his direction the business has
grown until the output of men's felt hats, finished
and in the rough, is approximately thirteen thousand
per day, while straw hats, which the company began
to make four years ago, are now turned out at the
rate of 200 dozen per day during the straw hat season.

Lighting fixtures manufactured
by CEPHAS B.
ROGERS have a reputation for beauty of design and
finish which has created a rapidly growing demand
from all parts of the United States and Canada. Installations have been made in prominent buildings and

CEPHAS

B. ROGERS, LIGHTING

FIXTURES

FRANK

H. LEE

CO.

fine residences throughout the country. They were
selected for meritorious design by the Home Owners
Institute, for their National .:VIodel Homes demonstration which was sponsored by prominent newspapers in
fifty leading cities.
The ideal location of Danbury as a trade center is
well illustrated by the large number of out of town
visitors who call at the Danbury showrooms of this
concern.
TWEEDY SILK r-.IILLS, Inc. are manufacturers
of silk hat bands. Not many years ago hat bands
were almost entirely imported from abroad, but due
to persistent effort this adjunct to the hat industry is
now established in this country on a firm basis which
is a great help as well as com·enience to Danbury
and the hat industry.
The TWEEDY SILK MILLS are one of the largest
and most up-to-date hat band manufacturers in Cnited
States.

TWEEDY

SILK MILLS

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DANBURY

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DANBURY OFFERS YOU
A charming,

homelike city.

High elevation, pure, invigorating air, healthful
Country drives of surpassing beauty.

surroundings.

\i\Tide opportunities

Excellent public and private schools, a new half-million
dollar high school, a state normal school, a state trade school.
Some of the most picturesque mountain and lake scenery in
southern New England.
with

a

splendidly

water systems m Con-

A splendid public library .

Fine city streets and country roads.

A charming country club
eighteen hole golf course.

One of the finest municipally-owned
necticut.

maintained

Railroad and motor bus service extending in every direction.

Unexcelled

for business or employment.

shipping facilities.

A score of beautiful

lakes within easy driving distance.

All the advantages of a modern, progressive
quiet and wholesomeness of country life.

city, with the

Enterprising , well informed business organizations ready to
assist you in finding what you wish if you desire to locate
here .

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THE

DANBURY

NEWS

THE MART HA APARTMENTS

OFFICE OF
DANBURY AND BETHEL
GAS AND ELECTRIC CO.