Welcome to the Ferguson Library's place for local and state history research. In addition to our digital collections, the library provides a wide variety of physical documents and research materials at our Main Library, DiMattia Building in downtown Stamford, Connecticut.
The Ferguson Library's Local Historical and Genealogical collection consists of books, manuscripts, periodicals, maps and city directories.
City directories from 1879 to 1966 and high school yearbooks for limited years are available on microfilm.
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32-19. Stamford, Connecticut, Southeast Quadrant Extended Urban Renewal Area Block 32; Lot 13: 26, 28 Chapel Street (left to right; facing northwest)

Courtesy of the City of Stamford, Connecticut, Urban Redevelopment Commission Photographic Archive: black & white print; scanned by Ronald Marcus,…
Featured Collection
The Carl Lobozza Collection

Historical photos of Stamford, Connecticut originally published by the photographer Carl Lobozza.
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A program presentation at the Ferguson Library

A program presented at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut in 1976.
People reading newspapers at the Ferguson Library

Men sit in chairs reading newspapers and magazines at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut in 1976.
A program presentation at the Ferguson Library

A program presented at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut in 1976.