NEW CANAAN

New Canaan is a town in Fairfield County Connecticut, United States. The population was 20,622 according to the 2020 census. 

About an hour's train ride from Manhattan, the town is considered part of Connecticut’s Gold Coast. The town is bounded on the south by Darien, on west by Stamford, on the east by Wilton, on the southeast by Norwalk, and on the north by Lewisboro and Pound Ridge in Westchester County, New York. The town includes the following sections: New Canaan town center, Talmadge Hill, Ponus Ridge, West, Oenoke Ridge, Smith Ridge, and part of Silvermine (which extends into Norwalk and Wilton). New Canaan is also recognized for its vast public parks such as Waveny Park, and a signature town center with classic boutiques. Waveny Park designed by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead, renowned for designing Central Park, boasts over 250 acres of woods, meadows and running trails as well as sports fields, paddle tennis courts, Carriage Art Barn, The Powerhouse Theater, and Spencer's Run, New Canaan's off-leash dog park. The Town Pool is in Waveny and is a recent addition to our wonderful town facilities. 

New Canaan is also known for its wide range of architecture.  During the late 1940s and 1950s, a group of students and teachers from the Harvard Graduate School of Design migrated to New Canaan and rocked the world of architectural design", according to an article in PureContemporary.com, an online architecture design magazine. "Phillip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gares, John Johansen and Eliot Novas – known as the Harvard Five – began creating homes in a style that emerged as the complete antithesis of the traditional build. Using new materials and open floor plans, best captured by Johnson's Glass House, these treasures are being squandered as buyers are knocking down these architectural icons and replacing them with cookie-cutter new builds."

Additionally, New Canaan is consistently listed as one of the wealthiest towns in the country, appearing in multiple rankings of the nation’s richest zip codes. It is also known for its public school system, which in 2018 was ranked as the top public school system in Connecticut, and in 2008 the third best in the country. The downtown area consists of many restaurants, an old Bow Tie Cinemas movie theater, library, the Victorian train station, antique shops, a bookstore, a saddlery boutique, and various fine clothing and interior decorating shops. In addition to the many local boutiques and businesses, many national chain stores can be found in the downtown area, including Ralph Lauren and Ralph Lauren Children, Anne Taylor, J. McLaughlin, Papyrus, Vineyard Vines, and Starbucks, among others. Furthermore, there are several churches in the town, as well as the historic Roger Sherman Inn, established in 1740. Most major banks and many wealth management firms have a presence in New Canaan, including JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, and Wells Fargo. Several hedge funds are also based in New Canaan.