25 Places, in street order
Greenwood Avenue, in Order
Greenwood Avenue from the train station to the Sycamore, in street-number order, with the walking distance from each door to the next.
On the avenue
Rainy Day Paperback Exchange
A used bookstore on the avenue.
On the avenue
Redding Roasters Coffee Company
A coffee roaster that sells both retail and wholesale coffee beans. They roast coffee at this facility.
On the avenue
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Caraluzzi's Food Market
A family market near the bottom of the avenue.
On the avenue
P. T. Barnum Square
A small triangular park laid out in 1881 as Fountain Place, renamed for the showman in 1928, with Ernest Moore Viquesney's bronze Doughboy at its center.
Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0 On the avenue
Town Green
Municipal open space, free and open to the public.
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Jubi Tea & Sweets
Bubble tea and sweets.
129 Greenwood Avenue: c.1860, No stylistic reference. A contributing building in the Greenwood Avenue Historic District.
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Bethel United Methodist Church
The district's only church, built 1861, mixing a Greek Revival cornice, Italianate windows and a Gothic Revival tower.
Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0 141 Greenwood Avenue: 1861, Greek/Gothic Revival. A contributing building in the Greenwood Avenue Historic District.
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Dr. Mike's Ice Cream Shop
Ice cream in a Greek Revival building from about 1845.
Hours Sunday–Thursday, noon–9 pm; Friday–Saturday, noon–10 pm. Check holiday and weather changes. Call 203-792-4388
Brianegge · CC0 158 Greenwood Avenue: c.1845, Greek Revival. A contributing building in the Greenwood Avenue Historic District.
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Byrd's Books
An independent bookstore in an Italianate building from about 1860.
178-82 Greenwood Avenue: c.1860, Italianate. A contributing building in the Greenwood Avenue Historic District.
On the avenue
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Bethel Public Library
The town library, in the Seth Seelye House, built about 1842 and listed on the National Register.
189 Greenwood Avenue: 1842, Greek Revival. A contributing building in the Greenwood Avenue Historic District.
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On the avenue
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Molten Java
A coffee house with a weekly open mic.
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Former St. Mary's Church
An 1883 church that was St. Mary's Catholic church until the parish moved to Dodgingtown Road in 1992. A Seventh-day Adventist congregation has met there since 2011.
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Greenwood Features
An independent movie theater at the top of the avenue.
Hours Thursday–Sunday, noon to the last showing. Check current showtimes. Call 475-256-1130
On the avenue
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Sycamore Drive-In
A drive-in restaurant at the far end of Greenwood Avenue.
33 Worth the short drive
Off the Avenue
Bethel's parks, preserves and playing fields are spread across the town rather than strung along the street. They are drives, not walks, so no walking time is shown.
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Bennett Memorial Park
Town-owned parkland on Shelter Rock Road, open to the general public.
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Collis P. Huntington State Park
1,017 acres of fields, woods, five ponds and ten miles of trails across Redding, Bethel and Newtown, with Anna Hyatt Huntington's bear and wolf sculptures at the entrance. Free, open daily 8 a.m. to sunset, dogs on a leash.
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Meckauer Park
A town park off Shelter Rock Road with a playground.
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Stephenson Preserve
A nature preserve with its own named trail.
Off avenue
The Nature Conservancy Wolfpits Nature Preserve
Private, Open To Public Without Fee
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Walnut Hill Community Church
A nondenominational church founded in 1982 by families who had been meeting in a home, now with campuses across Connecticut.