Steamboat Gothic? Picturesque? High Victorian? Stick? Just what is the architectural style of the Mark Twain House?
New Video: What Is the Architectural Style of the Mark Twain House?
New Video: Short About the Lost Terry Warehouse
New Video: Old Hartford CT Riverfront – Lost Buildings at Commerce and Ferry Streets
Photographs taken in the first decade of the 20th century provide a view of buildings that stood near Hartford, CT’s riverfront in its great days as a river port. In this video you will learn about the development of Ferry Street and the old days of Hartford’s trade with the West Indies. Also the first bridge across the Connecticut River here, built in 1809, and some of the people who lived and worked in the area, including Thomas Blake, firefighter and coppersmith, and Asa Farwell, famous for his cherry bounce.
New Video: Long Lost Traces of Hartford’s Old Riverfront
Hartford, Connecticut’s riverfront has gone through many changes over the years. Long before the highway came through, the Valley Railroad was built in 1871 through the warehouse district by the river. A number of old warehouses and fish markets, documented in photographs in the 1860s and 1870s, were demolished around this time. I talk about them in this video, as well as a sycamore tree that survived next to the river from Hartford’s earliest colonial days, through its great era commercial activity along the river, and into the 1890s.
New Video: Lost GRANDeur – Hartford’s Grand/New Parsons Theater, 1914-1961
New Video: More Old Wethersfield
In this video I talk about the historic buildings on Main Street in Wethersfield from the intersection with Church Street north to Hanmer Park. I cover the Greek Revival-style John Williams House, the former home and office of Dr. Erastus Cooke, the former church that’s now Griffith Academy, the former Masonic Hall, the Simeon Belden House, Comstock, Ferre & Co., the Rev. James Lockwood House, Trinity Episcopal Church, the Charles C. Hart Seed Company, the site of the Stillman Tavern (where Rochambeau stayed in 1781), the Second Empire-style Edward Robbins House, the houses of Allyn, Timothy and Henry Stillman, the Lemuel May House, the former High Street School, the houses of Francis and Capt. John Bulkeley, Ebenezer Talcott and Maj. David Hills, the Mansard-roofed. Capt. Daniel Francis House, the Cape. Jesse Goodrich House, the Porter-Belden House (some of its paneling is now in the Brooklyn Museum), Hanmer Park and the impressive brick Samuel Woodhouse, Jr. House.
New Video: Some Great Buildings in Old Wethersfield
In this video I take you on a tour of the section of the Old Wethersfield Historic District on Main Street south of the Keeney Center and a bit eastwards on Garden Street. I talk about the Old Academy, the 1898 Grange Hall, Temple Beth Torah, the former Sacred Heart Catholic Church and several historic houses/taverns.