Woodbury, Connecticut

Woodbury, Connecticut
Town
Town of Woodbury
King Solomon's Lodge No.7, chartered in 1765
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Litchfield County and Connecticut  Naugatuck Valley Planning Region and Connecticut
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Coordinates: 41°33′43″N 73°12′34″W / 41.56194°N 73.20944°W / 41.56194; -73.20944
Country	United States
U.S. state	Connecticut
County	Litchfield
Region	Naugatuck Valley
Named	1673
Government
• Type	Selectman-town meeting
• First Selectman	Barbara Perkinson (R)[1]
• Selectman	George Hale (D)[2]
• Selectman	Karen Reddington-Hughes (R)[3]
Area
• Total	36.6 sq mi (94.9 km2)
• Land	36.4 sq mi (94.3 km2)
• Water	0.2 sq mi (0.6 km2)
Elevation	243 ft (74 m)
Population  (2020)[4]
• Total	9,723
• Density	267/sq mi (103.1/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (Eastern)
ZIP code	06798
Area code(s)	203/475
FIPS code	09-87910
GNIS feature ID	0213540
Website	www.woodburyct.org

Woodbury is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region. The population was 9,723 at the 2020 census.^[4] The town center, comprising the adjacent villages of Woodbury and North Woodbury, is designated by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Woodbury Center census-designated place (CDP). Woodbury was founded in 1673.

The center of Woodbury is distinctive for its mile-long stretch of older buildings lining both sides of the road. The public buildings in the National Register Historic District include the First Congregational Church (1818), the Old Town Hall (1846), the United Methodist Church, the St. Paul's Episcopal Church (1785), and the North Congregational Church (1816).

The most eye-catching of the public buildings is the Masonic Temple (1839). It is a modest, clapboard, Greek Revival temple, notable less for its architecture than for its dramatic location, situated atop a high cliff accessed by a long flight of steps (there is a modern road at the rear). It is visible from a distance and is especially dramatic at night, when it is illuminated by spotlights. The Woodbury Temple echoes the many temples of the Greek world that were perched at the edge of high places from which they could be seen from miles around and from far out at sea.

Originally, the many historic houses on the street were residential. In the late twentieth century, they were occupied by a series of antique shops. Woodbury is often referred to as Connecticut's antiques capital.^[5]

Woodbury is one of the two towns in Litchfield County, along with Bethlehem, served by the area code 203/area code 475 overlay.