The Gault Family Barn Officially Becomes A Historical Site!

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Sam Gault, current Gault Energy & Stone President who is the fifth generation to head the company that bears his name, paid homage to Robert Gault, his great-great-grandfather and company’s original founder, says the company’s anniversary celebration will highlight Robert’s immense gratitude for the opportunities available to him in his adopted country, and the tradition of giving back that Robert, and his descendants ever since, have bestowed on the community over the years through a variety of philanthropic, civic, arts and sports initiatives that promoted the progress and betterment of the town and the region.

“Our 150th anniversary is much more than a company milestone,” says Gault, president of Gault Energy & Stone. “It’s a celebration of family and community, and an opportunity to reflect on our history, as a family and as a company, as an integral part of our community.” Gault adds that today’s announcement that his family’s barn will be added to the State Register of Historic Places is a symbolic reminder of his family’s humble beginnings. “For five generations, my family has preserved and maintained the barn while also using it to support our various businesses. We’re truly honored that historians and curators from the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation and the Westport Historical Society agree that this family treasure is worthy of recognition.” 

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Gault Energy’s 150th Anniversary Press Coverage

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As Gault Energy & Stone announced the introduction of “150 Years of Community”, a year-long series of special events and programs to recall the Gault family’s storied history as the oldest family owned and operated energy company in Fairfield County.  Below are the some of the different articles written about Gault Energy & Stone Unveiling our Year-Long 150^th Anniversary Celebration Plans!

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Westport Minuteman - http://goo.gl/CXW2H

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Gault Energy & Stone Unveils Year-Long 150th Anniversary Celebration Plans!

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Westport | 203-227-5181

Bethel | 203-790-9023

In honor of our 150^th Anniversary, Gault Energy& Stone launched “150 Years of Community” last Thursday. This year-long series of community events and programs to commemorate the Gault family’s storied history as a fifth-generation family business, as well as its distinction as the oldest business in Westport, and the oldest family owned and operated energy company in Fairfield County.

The Gault family kicked off its 150^th Anniversary celebration last Thursday at the one place that uniquely tells the Gault story from 1863 to present: the Gault Barn. Otherwise known as the Gault Brothers Farmstead, the Gault Barn is located on what is today called Compo Road South, in Westport. While the company has many historical artifacts in its rich archives, this Barn is considered one of the most compelling of the Gault family’s historic treasures. Prized by historians and curators from the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation and the Westport Historical Society as much for its architectural bones as for its historical narrative, the barn has been painstakingly preserved and offers a picturesque reminder of the community’s agrarian past and the family’s humble beginnings. 

At Thursday’s launch on behalf of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, Barn Historian and Researcher, Charlotte Hitchcock announced that the Gault Barn, which is actually three barns built in stages from the 1890s to 1913, will be officially added to the State Register of Historic Places in the company’s 150^th anniversary year. “The Gault barns are significant not only to the history of the family, but also to the Town of Westport and the State of Connecticut,” says Hitchcock.  “The structures’ timber frame construction reflects the building traditions of American farming, but the Gault family showed uncommon ingenuity by integrating a variety of materials from their lines of business, including brick and stone masonry, into the barns to create a truly unique barn complex.”  Hitchcock says that the barns have endured despite the changes in Westport’s built environment of the last century and a half that transformed it from an agricultural community into the more built-up landscape of today.  “Many of Westport’s and, indeed, Connecticut’s earliest barns have been lost to development.  Fortunately, the Gault family’s use of their barns evolved to support and take advantage of changes in the community over time, from dairy farming to lumber and feed grain, to coal and home heating oil delivery.  That these historical barns are still in productive use today is incredible, and rare.”

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