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March 10, 1983. The Pratt Street Historic District of Hartford, Connecticut, encompasses all of Pratt Street, between Main and Trumbull Streets, in the city's downtown. This block, which includes 15 buildings (one of which faces Trumbull Street), is the only place in the city where its typical early 20th-century streetscape is retained.
www.hartford.gov. 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 census. Hartford is the most populous city in the Capitol Planning Region and the core city of the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. [9]
The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. The Clemens family had it designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style. [ 3 ] Clemens biographer Justin Kaplan has called it "part steamboat, part medieval fortress ...
The Connecticut Science Center is a nine-story museum located on the Connecticut River in Hartford, Connecticut designed by César Pelli & Associates, which opened on June 12, 2009. The building measures a total of 154,000 square feet (14,300 m 2), including 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2) of interactive exhibits consisting of videos, audios ...
Photochrom of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch ca. 1905. The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut, honors the 4,000 Hartford citizens who served in the American Civil War, including 400 who died for the Union cause. It is notable as the first permanent memorial arch to be built in America.
Bulkeley Bridge, circa 1906-1916. Pratt & Whitney Factory, 1940. On July 6, 1944, Hartford was the scene of one of the worst fire disasters in the history of the United States. The fire, which occurred at a performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, became known as the Hartford Circus Fire.
The Wadsworth Atheneum is an art museum in Hartford, Connecticut.The Wadsworth is noted for its collections of European Baroque art, ancient Egyptian and Classical bronzes, French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as collections of early American furniture and decorative arts.
Location of Hartford in Connecticut This is a list of properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Hartford, Connecticut. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude ...