Daily Archives: December 22, 2011

Ellen Leeds Sturges – Obituary

Posted on December 22, 2011 by admin

STURGES Ellen Read Leeds Sturges died Tuesday, February 8, after a seven year illness with cancer. She was 71 and a life-long resident of Southport. Ellen was an accomplished and artistic interior decorator, antique enthusiast, (horticulturist, group singer, skier, hiker … Continue reading →

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Article about Ellen Leeds Sturges

Posted on December 22, 2011 by admin

By STEVE GRANT; Courant Staff Writer, March 10, 2005 David Sturges was walking through the exhibits at the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show last year when he happened upon a cluster of 19th-century portraits. It was a family, and the portrait … Continue reading →

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Restmore Home – National Registry

Posted on December 22, 2011 by admin

FAIRFIELD — Ellen Leeds Sturges had been getting the phone calls, and hearing the helicopters and planes flying overhead, surveying the 5.5 acres her family homestead occupies on Warner Hill Road. They wanted it — bad. But Sturges, who grew … Continue reading →

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History of Restmore

Posted on December 22, 2011 by admin

Ellen Sturges’ parents drove up Warner Hill in Southport during a blizzard in January 1948. They parked their car in front of “Restmore,” their new home, a 36-year-old Cape Dutch Colonial Revival, perhaps the only one in the state. Ellen … Continue reading →

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