The Westport Historical Society Celebrates
The Westport Woman’s Club
100 Years of Community Service
The 175th Anniversary of the
Saugatuck Congregational Church
May 28 – September 3, 2007
In 1907 twenty women formed the Westport Town Improvement Association (WTIA), and raised $600 to fund Westport’s first sidewalks. In 1938 the WTIA incorporated as the Westport Woman’s Club, which continues today to quietly raise thousands of dollars each year to fund projects to improve Westport.
The Saugatuck Congregational Church, built in 1832, is noteworthy as the site of Westport’s first town meeting in 1835. In 1950 the church was moved to a new location, 600 yards diagonally across the Post Road.
In 1948, the Westport Woman’s Club acquired its own clubhouse, the 1881 Sidney Watts house. This gracious old house on Imperial Avenue grew in 1950 with the addition of the “Sunday school meeting house” of the Saugatuck Congregational Church, now used as their auditorium.
Sponsored by
Grace K. Salmon Trust
Izzo’s Country Gardens
Saugatuck Congregational Church
Bayberry Property Management & Leasing of CT, LLC
