Tucked away in the heart of the Silvermine neighborhood is the rustic red storefront to the Silvermine Market. Today it offers everything from breakfast to catering. Nothing beats small town America, and in the market, the generations that pass through its doors feature the children who once enjoyed the fresh buttermilk pancakes only to return during summers for summer jobs. Those deep roots have contributed to the Silvermine Market’s catering and to-go items like sauces and pizza.
Much like the neighborhood’s storied history, if the walls could talk, they’d tell tales of the eclectic conversations artists and writers had about preserving this scenic area of Connecticut.
But not so long ago, this part of Silvermine was a neighborhood commercial area. According to the Norwalk Association of Silvermine Homeowners (NASH): “There were stores along Silvermine Avenue: Frank Buttery’s Country Department Store, the Hyatt-Gregory Store (which sold meats, groceries, homemade root beer, and stronger stuff in the cellar) a barber shop, and Mrs. Loudon’s combined Post Office and grocery (which was blown up on the 4th of July by a keg of powder kept for shooting off the celebratory cannon).”
The Silvermine Market, formerly the meat market is all that remains of the shops. The Silvermine Arts Center lives on across the street, and around the corner is the Gray Barns, on the site of the former Silvermine Tavern.
