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Fine Stonington Ct. Real Estate
Stonington real estate has everything any town in America would
treasure
Stonington is an old-fashioned New England seaport village where people snap up Stonington homes for a chance to live in this
exquisite 18th century whaling town.
The influx of affluent outsiders looking to purchase Stonington Ct. real estate has displaced most of the Portuguese fishing
families who built a robust village economy in the 19th century, but not all.
Connecticut's last remaining commercial fishing fleet still calls Stonington borough home.
The entire borough of Stonington is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
For years Stonington real estate has lured intellectual, wealthy urbanites drawn by its almost island-like feeling.
The shelves of the village bookstore are stocked with titles by resident authors, past and present, including James Merrill, J. D. McClatchy,
Peter Benchley and Eleanor Perenyi.
And a firehouse designed by Philip Johnson's architectural firm was built to protect all those fabulous 18th century Stonington
borough homes.
Yet you can buy native scallops from a local fisherman's freezer, day or night, by putting cash into a slot.
Stonington borough, which is the historic center of the sprawling town of Stonington, is simple and grand at the same time, with
plain fishermen's cottages wedged next to each other and pillared Stonington historic homes facing Fishers Island Sound.
Stonington Ct. real estate is made up of four areas:
Stonington borough homes, North Stonington real estate, Pawcatuck real estate & Mystic.
The average Stonington borough homes for sale range from $600,000 to $800,000.
However, waterfront Stonington borough homes for sale range from $1.5 to 7 million.
Call us with any questions you might have concerning Stonington Connecticut homes for sale.
Bruce Brast
Coldwell Banker Residential
Your Stonington Ct. Realtor
877-855-7913
Information deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Copyright © 2008 State-Wide
MLS, Inc. All rights reserved. The data relating to Stonington real estate for sale on this web site comes in part from the IDX Program of the State-Wide
Multiple Listing Service, Inc. Real estate listings held by brokerage firms other than ours are marked with the MLS logo and detailed
information about them includes the name of the listing Stonington realtor.
"This data is updated weekly on Saturday nights. Some Stonington real estate which appear for sale
on this web site may subsequently have sold and may no longer be available. Coldwell Banker & Stonington Ct Homes
participate in State-Wide MLS's IDX program, allowing us to display other broker's listings on our site. However, Stonington Ct Real
Estate displays only properties with list prices above $500,000.
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