The Engel Team

09/17/2026

Boroughs and Burbs, Season 6, Episode #243, “Santa Fe,” explores what makes Santa Fe one of the country’s most distinctive places to live, visit, and invest. With Paul D. Sidebottom joining the conversation, we’ll look at how Santa Fe’s unique architecture, rich cultural heritage, arts sce...

09/16/2026

What’s actually worth spending money on in New Canaan, Connecticut? Here are 5 local experiences I’d happily recommend to a friend visiting town — and yes, they’re worth the splurge.

The Glass House
Take the 1-hour Glass House Tour for a look inside Philip Johnson’s iconic New Canaan masterpiece, including the Brick House. Book ahead — tours can sell out.

The Waveny Tavern by PXK
For a proper New Canaan dinner, go for the seasonal menu and give yourself time to enjoy it. Friday or Saturday night is my pick for making a night of it.

New Canaan Museum & Historical Society — Cody Pharmacy
Don’t skip the 1845 Cody Pharmacy. The original fixtures, apothecary tools, medicine bottles, and vintage advertising offer a fascinating glimpse into New Canaan’s history.

Silvermine Arts Center
Sign up for a hands-on workshop and actually make something while you’re there. The pottery and ceramics classes are a fun way to spend an afternoon beyond simply visiting a gallery.

Blackbird
Order a few plates for the table rather than just one entrée. Start with the hamachi sashimi and chicken soup dumplings, then share something like the skirt steak or lobster bao.

These are the kinds of places that make New Canaan more than just a beautiful place to live — they’re part of what makes the town worth experiencing.

📍 New Canaan, CT

Which one would you add to the list?

09/15/2026

Built with intention. Quality you can feel.

Introducing 700 North Wilton Road in New Canaan, Connecticut—a thoughtfully designed home where architecture, craftsmanship, privacy, and everyday living come together with purpose.

Designed by Mark Finlay and built by Hobbs, Inc., this New Canaan home was created around a level of quiet and privacy that goes beyond acreage. From the east-facing front that welcomes morning light to the terrace where the day naturally ends, every detail was considered.

The main-level living design brings the primary suite, dressing room, screened-in porch, kitchen with bay window and breakfast nook, cathedral-ceiling living room, office, and laundry together on one floor. Upstairs, additional bedrooms, a vaulted family room, and recreation space provide room for guests and everyday life, while the lower level adds a media room with a wet bar.

And perhaps the most distinctive feature is the one you cannot photograph: peace and quiet. The home was designed and built to help contain sound within the house while rated windows and doors help keep outside noise out.

Set on 2.14 professionally landscaped acres in New Canaan, the property offers 4,294 square feet above grade, 3 bedrooms, 3 full and 2 half baths, a 3-car attached garage, geothermal heating and cooling, and a whole-house generator.

Privacy in most houses is a function of land. In this one, it was drawn, specified, and built.

📍 700 North Wilton Road, New Canaan, CT
Designed by Mark Finlay | Built by Hobbs, Inc.
Offered exclusively by The Engel Team

For more information or to arrange a private showing, reach out to The Engel Team.

09/11/2026

A new chapter for conservation in New Canaan, Connecticut.

This week, the New Canaan Land Trust celebrated the ribbon cutting for the Anderson Land Care Center and the Barbara Johansen Pollinator Garden — two new community assets created to support conservation, education, and stewardship.

The Land Trust’s historic headquarters, dating back roughly 200 years, has been part of a long-term effort to preserve New Canaan’s history and open space. What makes this moment especially meaningful is the years of work behind it — including a decade-long effort to acquire and open the property for broader community use.

The Anderson Land Care Center will provide space for education and the Land Trust’s Summer Stewards, while the pollinator garden creates a place to experience and learn about the natural world.

It’s a reminder that preserving land isn't just about protecting the past. It’s about creating places where New Canaan’s community can learn, connect, and enjoy nature for generations to come.

09/10/2026

New Canaan claims to fame… and these might surprise you. 👀

You probably wouldn’t expect a small Connecticut town to have connections to the LP record, color television, highway safety, the IBM Selectric typewriter, modern gas-station design, AND American Modernist architecture — but here we are.

From Peter Goldmark, a New Canaan resident whose work helped bring the 33⅓-rpm long-playing record and early color television to life, to Eliot Noyes, whose New Canaan design practice shaped everything from the IBM Selectric to Mobil gas stations, the town has quietly been home to some pretty influential ideas.

And then there’s the Harvard Five, whose experimental Modernist houses helped establish New Canaan as one of America's most important centers of postwar residential architecture.

Not everything was technically invented here — and that distinction matters. But New Canaan played a surprisingly important role in the people, places, and ideas behind these innovations.

Which one surprised you most?

📍 New Canaan, Connecticut
🏛️ New Canaan history | Connecticut history | Modernist architecture | American design | local history

09/10/2026

09/04/2026

Labor Day Weekend 2026 plans — especially if you like trying new spots 👀

If you’re staying in or around New Canaan, CT this Labor Day weekend, save this one. From a Saturday morning at the New Canaan Farmers Market to wandering the newly renovated Bristow Bird Sanctuary, catching a movie at The Playhouse, browsing the Carriage Barn Arts Center, or getting pleasantly distracted by vintage finds downtown… there are plenty of ways to make the most of that last little stretch of summer.

And yes, I’m still thinking about the vintage glasses + ice bucket I found downtown for a bridal shower. 😂

📍 New Canaan, Connecticut
🇺🇸 Labor Day Weekend 2026
🌿 Bristow Bird Sanctuary & Wildwood Preserve
🥬 New Canaan Farmers Market
🏊 Steve Benko Pool
📚 New Canaan Library
🎬 The Playhouse
🛍️ Downtown New Canaan shopping
🎨 Carriage Barn Arts Center

Save this for your Labor Day weekend in New Canaan and send it to the friend who always says, “What should we do this weekend?”

09/03/2026

What happens to oyster shells after they’re left behind? 🦪

Out on the Norwalk Islands in Norwalk Harbor, Connecticut, we went searching for clean, sun-bleached oyster shells — but not for dinner.

These shells play an important role in oyster restoration. Collected oyster shells, known as cultch, provide a hard, calcium-rich surface where oyster spat (baby oysters) can attach and grow.

After collecting hundreds of shells, the goal is to place them in mesh baskets and return them to the water, giving microscopic oysters a place to settle and helping support the health of Norwalk Harbor and Long Island Sound.

It’s a simple process with a bigger purpose: turning discarded oyster shells into habitat for the next generation of oysters.

Would you have guessed that an old oyster shell could help create a new oyster? 👀

09/03/2026

Boroughs and Burbs, Season 6, Episode #241, “Rezoning Property: Reaping Its Rewards While Minimizing Its Risks,” explores the opportunities and challenges that come with rezoning real estate. With John McNellis joining the conversation, we’ll look at how rezoning can unlock significant propert...

09/02/2026

Some dream homes have to be found. Others have to be created.

Just Sold in New Canaan, CT — 469 North Wilton Road, a remarkable 5.56-acre property offering the space, privacy, flexibility, and potential to create something entirely their own.

The search for the right home led our clients somewhere unexpected: not to a finished house, but to the right piece of land to build their vision from the ground up.

In a community like New Canaan, finding the right land can be the first and most important step toward creating a truly special home. This property offered a rare opportunity to start with the setting and let the vision follow.

Congratulations to our clients on this exciting new chapter! 🏡

Thinking about building a custom home in New Canaan, CT, searching for land in Fairfield County, or looking for your next opportunity in Connecticut real estate? We’d love to help you find the right place to begin.