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291 Main Street, Old Post Office, 1916, Renaissance Revival; 315 Main Street, Middletown Savings Bank, 1928, Academic Classicism; 319-323 Main Street, Old Banking House Block, 1796 - south section; 1815 - north section; 335 Main Street, Guy & Rice Building, 1930, Renaissance Revival
The diner was established in 1941 by John O'Rourke, who later brought the 1946 Mountain View diner car that anchored the diner's distinctive appearance into Middletown. [3] John's nephews, John and Brian bought the diner in 1976. In 1986, due to corrupted business practices, John sold his half share of the diner to his cousin Brian. [4]
Main Street, looking north from City Hall, about 1912. Middletown also briefly was the home of a major-league baseball team, the Middletown Mansfields of the National Association. In the late 19th and early 20th century, the city underwent a demographic transformation, after having been settled primarily by Protestant people from the British Isles.
Roughly Main St. between College and Hartford Ave. 41°33′45″N 72°38′56″W / 41.5625°N 72.648889°W / 41.5625; -72.648889 ( Main Street Historic District (Middletown Middletown
The Town Farms Inn is a historic poor farm on Silver Street at River Road in Middletown, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The poor farm provided employment and food for indigent people. (A similar town farm was operated in Hartford, on land now part of the Sigourney Square District.) [2]
There is a small pond to the south. Small businesses border the street to the north, followed by the buildings of Russell Manufacturing Company, the area's most dominant feature. Russell Street crosses Sumner Brook nearby and ascends to a large residential district to the west. The mill is currently a condo-apartment complex.
The historic district is centered on Union Park, an open green area marking the southernmost extent of Middletown's commercial business district. It includes properties set on three sides (north, south, and west) of the green, as well as properties on Crescent Street and a short stretch of South Main Street.
The Washington Street Historic District encompasses a residential area of Middletown, Connecticut that has a long history as a fashionable and desirable neighborhood. . Extending along Washington Street and Washington Terrace between Main and Jackson Streets, the area has a broad diversity of residential architecture dating from 1752 to 1931, reflecting the city's patterns o