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Founded in 1842 and opened in 1844, it is the oldest continually operating public art museum in the United States. [ 5 ] The museum is located at 600 Main Street in a distinctive castle-like building in downtown Hartford , Connecticut, the state's capital.
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] Founded in 1635, Hartford is among the oldest cities in the ...
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 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 ...
Daniel Wadsworth (1771–1848) of Hartford, Connecticut, was an American amateur artist and architect, arts patron and traveler. He is most remembered as the founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in his native city. View of Monte Video, Seat of Daniel Wadsworth, Esq., oil on panel, 1828, Thomas Cole. Wadsworth Atheneum.
1638 – Latin school founded. 1640 – Burying Ground established (approximate date). 1647 – Alse Young hanged for witchcraft. [2] 1662 – Hartford serving as capital of Connecticut Colony. [1] 1670 – Indian treaty signed. [3] 1701 – Hartford and New Haven designated joint capitals of Connecticut Colony.
July 22, 2008. The Colt Armory is a historic factory complex for the manufacture of firearms, created by Samuel Colt. It is located in Hartford, Connecticut along the Connecticut River, and as of 2008 is part of the Coltsville Historic District, [2] named a National Historic Landmark District. [3] It is slated to become part of Coltsville ...
The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History is a non-profit museum, library, archive and education center that is open to the public. It houses a research center containing 270,000 artifacts and graphics and over 100,000 books and pamphlets. [2] It holds one of the largest costume and textile collections in New England. [3]