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The Hartford Municipal Building, also known as Hartford City Hall, is a historic Beaux-Arts structure located at 550 Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Completed in 1915, it is a prominent local example of Beaux-Arts architecture, and is the third building to serve as city hall. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The Department Store Historic District is a historic district in the Downtown Hartford neighborhood of the city of Hartford, Connecticut, United States.. It is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) area that, in 1995, included three contributing buildings, one other contributing structure, and one contributing object.
The district is primarily composed of 19th-century brick mercantile buildings and contains 22 contributing and 3 non-contributing properties. Some of the more significant buildings are the Sport and Medical Science Academy building, and the Central Fire Station of the Hartford Fire Department. 5: Apartment at 49–51 Spring Street
The Hartford Fire Department is the fifth-largest fire department in Connecticut. [249] [250] The fire department operates out of 12 fire stations located throughout the city. Three of Hartford's fire stations are on the National Register of Historic Places. Engine 1 and Engine 15 are still in use today.
Engine Company 2 was established in 1864 when the city of Hartford decided to combine its existing volunteer fire companies into a single paid citywide department. It had originally been the Neptune company, based near the present location at 1161 Main Street.
A major feature of the downtown and the city skyline is Hartford 21, a 36-story apartment tower completed in 2006. [3] Starting in 2014 the 26-story office building at 777 Main Street (formerly the Bank of America Building) was converted into 285 luxury apartments.
The Cheney Building was constructed 1875–1876 for the Cheney Brothers silk manufacturers in Manchester, Connecticut. It was originally a multipurpose structure with five small shops on the ground floor, and offices and apartments above. For many years it housed Brown Thomson's department store, and later the G. Fox and Company. As of 2007, it ...
This article lists the tallest buildings in the US city of Hartford, Connecticut, that are at least 61 meters (200 feet) in height. The tallest building in Hartford is the commercial office building City Place I , a 163-meter skyscraper with 38 floors.