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Beardsley Zoo
Bridgeport CT
~3.04 miles from Stratford city center
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Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo is a wonderful place to visit - alone or with your family. Spend an hour or the whole day and see more than 300 animals representing primarily North and South American species. Come learn about the many endangered and threatened species, which include the Amur (Siberian) tiger, Andean condor, Ocelot, Red wolf, Andean (spectacled) bear, Maned wolf, and Golden lion tamarin.Come see our South American rainforest with free-flight aviary, then walk through the prairie dog exhibit with "pop-up" viewing areas. Visit the New England Farmyard with goats, cows, pigs, sheep and other barnyard critters. Take a walk along the hoofstock trail featuring bison, pronghorn, deer and more. Before you leave grab a bite at the Peacock Café, eat in the Picnic Grove and take a rid...
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University of Bridgeport
126 Park Ave. Bridgeport CT - 1-800-EXCEL-UB
~3.27 miles from Stratford city center
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University of Bridgeport is an independent, non-sectarian university located on Long Island Sound in the South Bridgeport section of Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA. The school is the tenth-most racially diverse university in the country.The university had financial troubles in the 1990s and was the subject of controversy when the trustees were obligated to enter into serious negotiations with and subsequently gave control of the institution to the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA), an affiliate of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church in order to save it from closure. Since then, in an effort to boost enrollment numbers, the University of Bridgeport has attempted to recruit more international students.
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Seaside Park
Bridgeport CT
~4.06 miles from Stratford city center
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Acoustic Cafe
2926 Fairfield Ave Bridgeport CT
~4.19 miles from Stratford city center
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Acoustic cafe is a small funky swank venue with a wide variety of musical artists appearing to rock the night.
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Black Rock & Blue
2488 Fairfield Ave Bridgeport CT
~4.19 miles from Stratford city center
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Captain's Cove Seaport
Bridgeport CT
~4.43 miles from Stratford city center
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Conte's Market & Grill
540 Riverside Ave Westport CT - -73.3
~9.73 miles from Stratford city center
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Quiley Stadium
362 Front Ave West Haven CT - 203-937-3708
~11.99 miles from Stratford city center
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Quigley Stadium is a stadium in West Haven, Connecticut. It is primarily used for baseball and was home to the West Haven Yankees. It was built in 1947 and has a capacity of 2,000 people.
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Yale Bowl
New Haven CT
~12.59 miles from Stratford city center
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The Yale Bowl is a football stadium in New Haven, Connecticut on the border of West Haven, about 1-1/2 miles west of Yale's main campus. Completed in 1914, the stadium seats 61,446 - reduced by renovations from the original capacity of 70,869. It is the home to the Yale University football team (the Yale Bulldogs), and also hosted the New York Giants of the National Football League from 1973-1974 while the original Yankee Stadium was being renovated and Giants Stadium was under construction. It is currently the third-largest stadium by capacity in the second tier of college football, NCAA Division I FCS, and the largest actually owned by the school itself (Georgia State University and Tennessee State University rent larger stadiums used by NFL teams in their home cities).Ground was broke...
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Connecticut Tennis Center
New Haven CT
~12.68 miles from Stratford city center
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The Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center is a tennis complex located on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. It is the venue for the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament. The complex consists of 22 outdoor and 8 indoor DecoTurf hardcourts, and 5 outdoor clay courts. The stadium, known as the Connecticut Tennis Center, was built in 1991 and has a capacity of 15,000 spectators. It is tied as the fourth largest tennis venue in the world by capacity.
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Five Mile Point Lighthouse
East Haven CT
~12.77 miles from Stratford city center
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Five Mile Point Light, also known as Old New Haven Harbor Lighthouse, is a lighthouse in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, on the harbor entrance to Long Island Sound, five miles (8 km) from Downtown New Haven. It is located in Lighthouse Point Park.The original lighthouse, built in 1805, was a 30-foot (9.1 m) octagonal wooden tower. Mariners complained that the light was not bright enough nor tall enough, so in 1847, a new 65-foot (20 m) tower with 12 Lamps with 21-inch (530 mm) reflectors, was built. The lamp system was upgraded to a fourth-order Fresnel lens in 1855. The lighthouse was extinguished in 1877 when the offshore Southwest Ledge Light replaced it for navigation.The tower was renovated in 1986
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Long Wharf Theater
New Haven CT
~13.39 miles from Stratford city center
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Long Wharf Theatre is a nonprofit institution in New Haven, Connecticut, a pioneer in the not-for-profit regional theatre movement, the originator of several prominent plays, and a venue where many internationally known actors have appeared.Founded in 1965, the theatre has received numerous awards over the years, including a Tony Award for Best Regional Theatre and Pulitzer Prizes for several of its original plays. The theatre, currently led by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and Managing Director Ray Cullom, is committed to the creation of new works and the reexamination of classic plays.As of 2009, the theatre had recently staged world premieres by Craig Lucas, Paula Vogel, Athol Fugard and Anna Deavere Smith, among others. In addition, some of the nation’s leading actors, includi...
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Knights of Columbus Museum
New Haven CT
~13.56 miles from Stratford city center
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The museum offers displays on the history of the Knights of Columbus. The facility is 77,000 square feet and features a courtyard and impressive landscaping.
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Shubert Theater
New Haven CT
~13.57 miles from Stratford city center
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The Shubert Theatre is a 1600-seat theatre located at 247 College Street in New Haven, Connecticut. Originally opened in 1914, it was designed by Albert Swazey, a New York architect and built by the H.E. Murdock Construction Company. It is currently operated as a non-profit organization by CAPA (The Connecticut Association for the Performing Arts) under the aegis of The Columbus Association for the Performing Arts.
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Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven CT
~13.59 miles from Stratford city center
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The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the Gallery possesses especially renowned collections of early Italian painting, African sculpture, and modern art. Its holdings of American decorative and fine arts are amongst the best in existence.The Yale University Art Gallery is the oldest university art museum in the western hemisphere. The Gallery was founded in 1832, when patriot-artist John Trumbull donated to Yale College more than 100 paintings of the American Revolution and designed the original Picture Gallery. This building, on Old Campus, was razed in 1901.The Gallery's main building was built in 1953 and ...
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Yale Repertory Theater
New Haven CT
~13.59 miles from Stratford city center
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The Yale Repertory Theatre at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut was founded by Robert Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama in 1966, with the goal of facilitating a meaningful collaboration between theatre professionals and talented students. In the process it has become one of the first distinguished regional theatres. Located at the edge of Yale's main downtown campus, It occupies the former Calvary Baptist Church.As head of "the Rep" from 1966 to 1979, Brustein brought professional actors to Yale each year to form a repertory company, and nurtured notable new authors including Athol Fugard. The more successful works were regularly transferred to commercial theaters.The dean of the Yale School of Drama is the artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, with Lloyd ...
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven CT
~13.59 miles from Stratford city center
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The Yale Center for British Art is an art museum in New Haven, Connecticut at Yale University which houses the most comprehensive collection of British Art outside the United Kingdom. It concentrates on work from the Elizabethan period onward.The Center was established by a gift from Paul Mellon of his British art collection to Yale in 1966, together with an endowment for operations of the Center, and funds for a building to house the works of art. The building was designed by Louis I. Kahn and constructed at the corner of York and Chapel Streets in New Haven, across the street from one of Kahn's earliest buildings, the Yale University Art Gallery, built in 1953. The Yale Center for British Art was completed, after Kahn's death, in 1974. The exterior is made of matte steel and reflective...
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Harkness Tower
New Haven CT
~13.70 miles from Stratford city center
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Harkness Tower is a prominent Gothic Revival structure at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.The tower was constructed between 1917 and 1921 as part of the Memorial Quadrangle donated to Yale by Anna M. Harkness in honor of her recently deceased son, Charles William Harkness, Yale class of 1883, and the second son of Stephen V. Harkness, an early investor in the company that became Standard Oil. It was designed by James Gamble Rogers, who designed many of Yale's "Collegiate Gothic" structures. Rogers said his design for the tower was inspired by "Boston Stump," the 272-foot tower of the parish church of St Botolph in Boston, England. The 15th-century Boston Stump is the tallest parish church tower in England. Rogers also based some details on the 16th-century tower ...
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The Green
New Haven CT
~13.73 miles from Stratford city center
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The New Haven Green is a 16-acre (65,000 m2) privately owned park and recreation area located in the downtown district of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. It comprises the central square of the nine-square settlement plan of the original Puritan colonists in New Haven, and was designed and surveyed by colonist John Brockett. Today the Green is bordered by the modern paved roads of College, Chapel, Church, and Elm streets. Temple Street bisects the Green into upper (northwest) and lower (southeast) halves. The green is host to numerous public events, such as the Festival of Arts and Ideas, summer jazz and classical music concerts that can draw hundreds of thousands of people, as well as typical daily park activities. As New Haven Green Historic District, it was designated a National Hist...
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West Rock Park
New Haven CT
~13.75 miles from Stratford city center
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West Rock Ridge State Park is a state park located in New Haven, Hamden, and Woodbridge, Connecticut. It is named for the 400-foot (120 m) to 700-foot (210 m) traprock West Rock Ridge, which is part of the Metacomet Ridge extending from Long Island Sound to the Vermont border. The ridge consists largely of diabase basalt, much like its sister formation East Rock. The park offers recreational trails, car-top boating, and 7 miles (11 km) of open west-facing cliffs with vistas encompassing Metropolitan New Haven and suburban towns to the west. The park includes Judges Cave, a colonial era historic site; Lake Wintergreen; and the 7-mile (11 km) Regicides Trail, part of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association's Blue Trail system. West Rock Ridge State Park is part of a larger area of protec...
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New Haven City Hall
New Haven CT
~13.77 miles from Stratford city center
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165 Church St, New Haven, CT New Haven's City Hall, located steps from the historic green, is one of the country's oldest and finest examples of the High Victorian style. It was built in 1861 by Henry Austin, and inside you can revel in its beautifully detailed iron staircase. The facade of the building has changed many times but the sandstone and limestone exterior was restored in 1976. You are welcome to slip in and take a look during office hours, or just admire the building from the outside.
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Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University
New Haven CT
~13.82 miles from Stratford city center
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Sterling Memorial Library is the largest library at Yale University, containing over 4 million volumes. It is an example of Gothic revival architecture, designed by James Gamble Rogers, adorned with thousands of panes of stained glass created by G. Owen Bonawit.The Library has 15 levels, each with its own category of books. In 1971, the adjoining underground Cross Campus Library was built. It was renovated and renamed to Bass Library in 2007 and connects to Sterling via an underground tunnel. Bass Library currently contains an additional 150,000 volumes.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
New Haven CT
~13.85 miles from Stratford city center
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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library contains the principal rare books and literary manuscripts of Yale University and serves as a center for research by students, faculty, and other scholars, whether affiliated with Yale or not. Materials do not circulate, but may be used in the Reading Room on the court level after researchers register with the Beinecke.One of the largest buildings in the world devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts, the library has room in the central tower for 180,000 volumes and in the underground book stacks for over 600,000 volumes; it now contains about 500,000 volumes and several million manuscripts. Temperature and humidity controls ensure that stored materials are protected for future generations.The building, of Vermont marble and grani...
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Connecticut Children's Museum
New Haven CT
~13.98 miles from Stratford city center
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Founded in 1927 as the Children’s Museum of Hartford, our museum is reaffirming its mission as a catalyst for science inspiration and learning amongst children aged twelve and under. On May 10, 2006, we changed our name to The Children’s Museum, with the tag line, "Igniting Curiosity Through Science and Nature."The Children’s Museum is the largest in the state and the fifth oldest children’s museum in the nation. Hartford Magazine readers have consistently voted it “Best Kid’s Attraction” since the poll’s inception three years ago.The Children’s Museum has flourished in its current Trout Brook Drive location since 1958, at which time it moved from its former home on Farmington Avenue. In addition to the museum itself, The Children’s Museum is comprised of the highly respected, scie...
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Yale University
180 York Street New Haven CT - 203-432-4771
~14.22 miles from Stratford city center
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Yale University is a private Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. Yale has produced many notable alumni, including five U.S. presidents, seventeen U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and several foreign heads of state.Incorporated as the Collegiate School, the institution traces its roots to 17th-century clergymen who sought to establish a college to train clergy and political leaders for the colony. In 1718, the College was renamed Yale College to honor a gift from Elihu Yale, a governor of the British East India Company. In 1861, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences became the first U.S. school to award the Ph.D.Yale College was trans...
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Peabody Museum of Natural History
New Haven CT
~14.32 miles from Stratford city center
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The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University is among the oldest, largest, and most prolific university natural history museums in the world. It was founded by the philanthropist George Peabody in 1866 at the behest of his nephew Othniel Charles Marsh, the early paleontologist. Most known to the public for its Great Hall of Dinosaurs, which includes a mounted juvenile Apatosaurus and the 110-foot (34 m) long mural, The Age of Reptiles; it also has permanent exhibits dedicated to human and mammal evolution; wildlife dioramas, Egyptian artifacts; and the birds, minerals and Native Americans of Connecticut.The Peabody Museum is located at 170 Whitney Avenue in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, and is run by almost one hundred staff members. While the original building was demolished ...
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Marsh Botanical Garden
New Haven CT
~14.47 miles from Stratford city center
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The Marsh Botanical Garden (8 acres) is a botanical garden, arboretum, and greenhouses located on the Yale University campus at 277 Mansfield Street, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.The Garden began in 1899 when paleontologist Othniel Marsh (Yale B.A. 1860) bequeathed his home, grounds, greenhouses and plant collections to the University. The botanical garden was designed by landscape architect Beatrix Farrand during the 1920s and 1930s as part of her design for the Yale campus. Today the Garden supports research and instruction, and is a public greenspace. Only remnants of Farrand's design remain, although restoration work has begun. The greenhouses contain 2,000 orchids, an extensive collection of plants from tropical regions and arid climates, and an insectivorous collection.
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Shoreline Trolley Museum
New Haven CT
~15.37 miles from Stratford city center
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The Shore Line Trolley Museum, located in East Haven, Connecticut, is the oldest operating trolley museum in the United States. It was founded to preserve the heritage of the trolley car. The museum includes exhibits on trolley history in the visitors' center and offers rides on restored trolleys along its 1.5 miles (2.4 km) track. The ride includes a tour of the museum's historic trolley collection.The museum encompasses the Branford Electric Railway Historic District, which was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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August A Fink Memorial
21 Linden St # 1 Norwalk CT - 203-846-8766
~15.39 miles from Stratford city center
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East Rock Park
New Haven CT
~15.48 miles from Stratford city center
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East Rock of south-central Connecticut, with a high point of 366 feet (112 m), is a 7-mile (11 km) long trap rock ridge located on the north side of the city of New Haven. A prominent landscape feature and a popular outdoor recreation area with cliffs that rise 300 feet (91 m) over the city below, East Rock is part of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border.
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