Norfolk, Connecticut

Norfolk, Connecticut
Town
Town of Norfolk
Shops in Downtown Norfolk
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Litchfield County and Connecticut  Northwest Hills Planning Region and Connecticut
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Coordinates: 41°59′01″N 73°11′47″W / 41.98361°N 73.19639°W / 41.98361; -73.19639
Country	United States
U.S. state	Connecticut
County	Litchfield
Region	Northwest Hills
Incorporated	1758
Government
• Type	Selectman-town meeting
• First selectman	Matthew T. Riiska (D)
• Selectman	Susan M. Dyer (D)
• Selectman	Alexandra (Sandy) Evans (R)
Area
• Total	46.4 sq mi (120.2 km2)
• Land	45.3 sq mi (117.4 km2)
• Water	1.1 sq mi (2.9 km2)
Elevation	1,230 ft (375 m)
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	1,588
• Density	35/sq mi (13.5/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (Eastern)
ZIP code	06058
Area code(s)	860/959
FIPS code	09-53470
GNIS feature ID	0213476
Website	www.norfolkct.org

Norfolk (/ˈnɔːrfʌk/ NOR-fuhk) is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,588 at the 2020 census.^[1] The town is part of the Northwest Hills Planning Region. The urban center of the town is the Norfolk census-designated place, with a population of 553 at the 2010 census.^[2]

Norfolk is perhaps best known as the site of the Yale Summer School of Music—Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, which hosts an annual chamber music concert series in "the Music Shed", a performance hall located on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel estate to the west of the village green. Norfolk has important examples of regional architecture, notably the Village Hall (now Infinity Hall, a shingled 1880s Arts-and-Crafts confection, with an opera house upstairs and storefronts at street level); the Norfolk Library (a shingle-style structure, designed by George Keller, c. 1888/1889); and over thirty buildings, in a wide variety of styles, designed by Alfredo S. G. Taylor (of the New York firm Taylor & Levi) in the four decades before the Second World War.