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The Torringford Street Historic District is a historic district on the eastern side of the city of Torrington, Connecticut, United States. The district includes properties along Torringford Street , the main thoroughfare of the Torringford section of the city, between United States Route 202 and West Hill Road. The road is one of the oldest in ...
The Fyler–Hotchkiss Estate is located north of Torrington's central business district, on the east side of Main Street north of city hall and the Catholic church. The estate complex includes two houses and a carriage house, set back from the street. The main house is a large 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story brick structure, with a cruciform plan. It has a ...
The Downtown Torrington Historic District encompasses the historic central downtown area of Torrington, Connecticut. Centered on a crossing of the Naugatuck River, the 56-acre (23 ha) historic district is well-represented with architecture from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Torrington is a former mill town, as are most other towns along the Naugatuck River Valley. Downtown Torrington is home to the Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts, which trains ballet dancers and whose Company performs in the Warner Theatre, a 1,700-seat auditorium built in 1931 as a cinema by the Warner Brothers film studio. Downtown Torrington ...
The Migeon Avenue Historic District encompasses a group of elegant residential properties on a one-block stretch of Migeon Avenue in Torrington, Connecticut.Consisting of five properties and four contributing primary buildings, this area was home to some of Torrington's leading businessmen at the turn of the 20th century.
US 202 (East Main Street) – Torrington, Hartford: Winchester: 8.21: 13.21: US 44 east (South Main Street) – Winsted, Barkhamsted, Hartford: Southern end of US 44 concurrency: 8.26: 13.29: Route 8 south – Torrington, Waterbury: Southern end of Route 8 concurrency: 8.73: 14.05: Route 8 north (Park Place) – Riverton: Northern end of Route ...
The road between Torrington and Norfolk was originally designated as a secondary state highway in 1922, known as Highway 312. In the 1932 state highway renumbering, old Highway 312 was renumbered to Route 49. On May 1, 1954, Route 72 was extended north from Bristol all the way to Norfolk
The geographic region includes colloquial subregions—rural Northwestern Connecticut and the area associated with the city of Torrington, also known as the Upper Naugatuck River Valley or simply Litchfield Hills—which have also variously corresponded to designated government councils both past and present.