Extending along Palisado Avenue (Connecticut Route 159) between the Farmington River and Bissell Ferry Road, it is a basically 18th-century street view, populated mainly with houses from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

Palisado Avenue was laid out on this ridge, with house lots lining the road and agricultural lands to the east and west.

The town's principal church was also relocated at that time to the Palisado Green; built in 1794, it is a fine example of Federal architecture with later Greek Revival additions.

[2] The streetscape of Palisado Avenue beyond the area of the green is basically residential, with houses widely spaced and set well back from the road.

Stylistically they are dominated by Georgian, Federal, and Colonial Revival styles, giving the area a distinctly 18th or early 19th-century flavor.