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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.
Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut.The city, located in Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 as of the 2020 United States census.Hartford is the most populous city in the Capitol Planning Region and the core city of the Greater Hartford metropolitan area.
Former city County Planning region Date chartered as city Date of disestablishment Disposition South Norwalk: Fairfield: Western Connecticut: 1871 1913 Consolidated with Town and City of Norwalk in 1913. Now a neighborhood and a taxing district. Rockville: Tolland: Capitol: 1889 1965 Consolidated with the Town of Vernon. Now a CDP. Willimantic ...
Canton (Town); Canton Center; Canton Valley; Carroll Corners; Case Corner; Chatsworth Village; Cherry Park; Children's Village of the Hartford Orphan Asylum; Coachlight Village
The city of Hartford is the location of 145 of these properties and districts, including 7 National Historic Landmarks; they are listed here, while the other properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county, including 14 National Historic Landmarks, are listed separately. Eight properties and districts straddle the border between ...
Asylum Hill. Asylum Hill is a 615-acre (2.49 km 2) centrally located Hartford neighborhood with about 10,500 residents.It rises uphill directly west of Downtown Hartford but is mostly flat until it slopes downward at its western edge, along the flood plain of the north branch of the now-buried Park River.
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. [4]
Advocates for reform argued a switch to a strong-mayor system would "ameliorate the sense of citizen frustration with the Hartford government and the many problems facing the city," such as a significant drop in the city's population (11.1% from 1990 to 1994, the largest drop for a large U.S. city), crime, a broken school system (which had been ...