Norfolk, Connecticut
Norfolk, Connecticut | |
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| Town of Norfolk | |
Shops in Downtown Norfolk | |
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Seal | |
| Coordinates: 41°59′01″N 73°11′47″W / 41.98361°N 73.19639°W | |
| Country | United States |
| U.S. state | Connecticut |
| County | Litchfield |
| Region | Northwest Hills |
| Incorporated | 1758 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Selectman-town meeting |
| • First selectman | Matthew T. Riiska (D) |
| • Selectman | Susan M. Dyer (D) |
| • Selectman | Alexandra (Sandy) Evans (R) |
| Area | |
• Total | 46.4 sq mi (120.2 km2) |
| • Land | 45.3 sq mi (117.4 km2) |
| • Water | 1.1 sq mi (2.9 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,230 ft (375 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 1,588 |
| • Density | 35/sq mi (13.5/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (Eastern) |
| ZIP code | 06058 |
| Area codes | 860/959 |
| FIPS code | 09-53470 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0213476 |
| Website | www |
Norfolk is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,588 at the 2020 census. The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region. The urban center of the town is the Norfolk census-designated place, with a population of 553 at the 2010 census.
Norfolk is the home of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, an annual chamber music concert series hosted by the Yale School of Music. The festival takes place in the Music Shed, a performance hall located on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel estate to the west of the village green.
Norfolk has important examples of regional architecture, including the Village Hall (now Infinity Hall, a shingled 1880s Arts-and-Crafts confection, with an opera house upstairs and storefronts at street level); the Norfolk Library (a shingle-style structure, designed by George Keller, c. 1888/1889); and over thirty buildings, in a wide variety of styles, designed by Alfredo S. G. Taylor (of the New York firm Taylor & Levi) in the four decades before the Second World War.