The Greenwich Preservation Trust presented Greenwich Lost & Preserved, a special exhibition at the Bruce Museum designed to illuminate the importance of historic preservation in the Town of Greenwich.

From March 3rd to May 27th of this year the Greenwich Preservation Trust proudly presented Greenwich Lost & Preserved, a special exhibition at the Bruce Museum designed to illuminate the importance of historic preservation in our town.

It highlighted five historically significant buildings in Greenwich lost to demolition and included suggestions of what they might have become had they been saved. Four hundred and eighty-two buildings constructed before 1940 have been lost in Greenwich in the last  ten years, thirteen of them listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Eleven success stories, buildings given new life through adaptive reuse, were also included.

A major part of the exhibition, entitled Behind this Door, “unlocked the story of the Thomas Lyon house in Byram. Built circa 1695, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is the oldest unaltered Colonial structure in Greenwich. Six generations of the Lyon family occupied it until it was moved to its present location in 1927.

We are thankful to those current Lyon family members who generously contributed original artifacts, documents, photos and recorded stories and anecdotes for the exhibition. Behind this Door also featured the progress the Greenwich Preservation Trust has made in our initial steps to restore the house.

View the Greenwich Lost & Preserved Exhibition video about the Thomas Lyon House narrated by Thomas Lyon, Jr. descendent Julia Pollock and produced by the Bruce Museum.