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The 32 properties and districts located in the town of West Hartford include two National Historic Landmarks and are listed below. The properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county are listed separately. Six properties and districts straddle the border between West Hartford and Hartford and appear in both lists.
The altitude at Town Hall is 120 feet (37 m). West Hartford is adjacent to and west of Hartford, the state capital, and borders Bloomfield, Newington, New Britain, Farmington, and Avon. West Hartford is approximately 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Boston and 120 miles (190 km) northeast of New York City. Interstate 84 runs through West Hartford.
The Prospect Avenue Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area in western Hartford and eastern West Hartford, Connecticut.The 300-acre (120 ha) historic district extends along Prospect Avenue from Albany Avenue to Fern Street, including most of the area between those streets and the Park River to the east, and Sycamore Street and Sycamore Lane to the west.
The West Hill Historic District is a prestigious residential subdivision of the town of West Hartford, Connecticut. Originally the site of the estate of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt , son of transportation magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt , it was developed as a planned subdivision of upper-class residences in the 1920s.
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 ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The Daniel Hosmer House is a historic house at 253 North Main Street in West Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1774, it is one of the town's small number of surviving 18th-century buildings, and is a well-preserved example of a Georgian farmhouse. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1986. [1]
The Allyn Steele House is located north of the center of West Hartford, on the east side of North Main Street, north of its junction with Fern Street. It is set on a lot fringed at the front by a low brownstone retaining wall. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, large central chimney and clapboarded exterior ...