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Around 1910 something unexpected happened: artists. Illustrators, writers, and playwrights discovered the farmhouses and the shore light, and Westport became one of America's great arts colonies — F. Scott Fitzgerald rented a house on Compo Road South around 1920, and the Sound-shore world he found here is bound up with the one he later put into The Great Gatsby. In 1931 the players converted an 1835 tannery into the Westport Country Playhouse, still the town's stage today, and by mid-century the arts colony had settled into an affluent New York commuter town that never quite stopped being a colony.
Today Westport is known for its beaches, its theater, and a shoreline elegance that has never lost its Revolutionary bones. Its story blends a colonial shipping village, the 1777 landing at Compo, an 1835 town, an onion-farming past, and an arts colony that drew the country's illustrators and players. Our Westport designs gather that identity into wearable form — Compo Beach, the Minute Man, the Saugatuck, the Sound. Explore the collection and carry a little of the Westport shore with you.
Why People Visit Westport Connecticut
Westport draws people who love the shore, the arts, and a good story. It is a Revolutionary-War landing site with a Minute Man on the beach, a colonial shipping village turned arts colony, and a Long Island Sound shoreline of beaches, river, and marsh. Visitors come for the rare mix — history you can stand on at Compo, theater and music in the summer, and a refined New England coast an easy train ride from New York.
