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Albany Avenue
280 Terence McGovern House (1875)
350 Shiloh Baptist Church (1915)
1205 North United Methodist Church (1919)
1240 Northwest District School – John E. Rogers African American Cultural Center (1891)
Allen Place
125 (1875)
Allyn Street
90-100 Crosthwaite Building (1911)
109-121 (1895)
179 Judd & Root Building (1883)
American Row
1 Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company Building (1963)
Ann Uccello Street
199-203 Masonic Hall (1894)
490 Arthur G. Pomeroy House (1882)
529-543 Flatiron Building (1896)
Asylum Avenue
814 Asylum Hill Congregational Church (1865)
847 Linus B. Plimpton House (1884)
852 George A. Bolles House (1875)
868 Asylum Avenue Baptist Church (1896)
903 George J. Capewell House (1870)
927 West Middle School (1930)
1265 Charles F.T. & Mary Hillyer Seaverns House (1917)
1280 Walter L. Goodwin House (1903)
1335 Johnson-Stedman House (1913)
1380 Dr. John B. Griggs House (1918)
1414 William C. Scheide House (1913)
1430 Jonathan Camp House (1911)
Asylum Street
105 (1855)
185 City Place (1980)
225 Goodwin Building (1881)
225 Goodwin Square (1989)
235-257 (1872)
338 Hotel Bond (1921)
410 Capitol Building (Capitol National Bank & Trust) – The Hollander (1926)
Atwood Street
87-89 (1911)
Barbour Street
319 John Clark House (1875)
Beacon Street
200 (1875)
210 (1900)
Becket Street
19 St. Panteleimon Russian Orthodox Church (1972)
Bedford Street
150 Chevry Lomday Mishnayes – The House of God (1926)
Belden Street
20 Samuel F. Cadwell House (1879)
Bloomfield Avenue
50 Unitarian Meeting House (1964)
Blue Hills Avenue
230 St. Justin Church (1933)
249-251 Charles Tuttle House (1850)
636 Blue Hills Fire Station (1927)
Broad Street
360 Hartford State Armory (1909)
539 Billings & Spencer Company (1893)
593-601 The Viking (1910)
Brookfield Street
420 Warburton Community Church (1956)
Bushnell Park
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch (1886)
Campfield Avenue
10 St. Augustine Church (1912)
Canterbury Street
31 Boce W. Barlow Jr. House (1926)
Capen Street
36-48 Haley Manors (1898)
Capitol Avenue
11-17 (1879)
53 Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church (1928)
136 First Presbyterian Church (1870)
165 Connecticut State Office Building (1931)
166 Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall (1930)
210 Connecticut State Capitol (1878)
231 Connecticut State Library and Supreme Court Building (1910)
311 Emanuel Lutheran Church (1924)
380 Hartford Office Supply Company (1890)
932 Olivet Baptist Church – First Church of the Nazarene (1913)
Central Row
2 Hartford-Connecticut Trust Company (1920)
6 Putnam Building (1860)
9 Travelers Insurance Company (1928)
Charter Oak Avenue
21 Congregation Beth Israel – Charter Oak Cultural Center (1876)
49 German Lutheran Church of the Reformation – Greater Joy Mission Church of Deliverance (1898)
60 Polish National Home (1930)
75 Atlantic Screw Works (1902)
Charter Oak Place
12 Col. Charles H. Northam House (1875)
15 Robinson-Smith House (1864)
16 (1894)
19 James Niles House (1869)
20 Asa S. Cook House (1870)
22-24 Schwab-Cook House (1870)
27 Kingsbury-Gatling House (1860)
33 Nathaniel Shipman House (1860)
36-34 Fenn-Eaton House (1863)
40-38 Pease House (1862)
Church Street
45 Christ Church Cathedral (1828)
285 St. Patrick’s and St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church (1876)
Clark Street
7 St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church (1906)
Cogswell Street
150 Caledonian-American Insurance Company (1936)
Colebrook Street
19 Thirman Milner House (1927)
Collins Street
181 George H. Seyms House (1880)
136 Isaac Frisbie House (1870)
310 George W. Flint House (1895)
Columbus Boulevard
250 Connecticut Science Center (2009)
Cone Street
1 Noah Webster School (1900)
24 (1915)
Congress Street
2 Edmund Hurlburt House (1860)
Curcombe Street
13, 17, 21, 23, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45 Potsdam Village Cottages (1859)
Elizabeth Street
1 Curtis H. Veeder House [Connecticut Historical Society] (1928)
65 UCONN School of Law (1926)
Elm Street
55 Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (1926)
60 Pump House (1947)
75 Scottish Union and National Insurance Company (1913)
79 Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company Building (1920)
93 (1865)
Evergreen Avenue
34 (1900)
Fairfield Avenue
142 Memorial Baptist Church (1931)
147 Oliver H. Easton House (1869)
160 George A. Fairfield House (1866)
453 Superintendent’s House, Cedar Hill Cemetery (1875)
453 Northam Memorial Chapel (1882)
Farmington Avenue
140 Cathedral of Saint Joseph (1962)
151 Aetna Building (1931)
180 (1855)
341 Katharine Seymour Day House (1884)
350 Gilbert W. Chapin House (1898)
351 Mark Twain House (1874)
351 Mark Twain Carriage House (1874)
360 Mary Rowell Storrs House (1899)
370 Immanuel Congregational Church (1899)
436 Care Endodontics (2007)
488 Colonial Theater (1926)
571 United Methodist Church (1905)
Forest Street
36 (1895)
66 Charles Boardman Smith House (1875)
69 Chamberlin Carriage House (1871)
77 Harriet Beecher Stowe House (1871)
Garden Street
370 Beth Hamedrash Hagadol – The Greater Refuge Church of Christ (1922)
Girard Avenue
15 Ensworth Carriage House (1888)
Gillett StreetHolbrook Carriage House (1865)
25 Fanny S. O’Connor House (1899)
57 Alanson Trask House (1888)
Gold Street
60 Center Church House (1908)
Greenfield Street
221 Agudas Achim Synagogue – Glory Chapel International Cathedral (1928)
Hartford Plaza
1 Hartford Fire Insurance Company Building (1921)
Hawthorn Street
140 John and Isabella Beecher Hooker House (1861)
High Street
28 Batterson Block/Lewtan Building (1860)
135 William R. Cotter Federal Building (1932)
159 First Company Governor’s Foot Guard Armory (1888)
211 Isham-Terry House (1854)
220 (1855)
Holcomb Street
120 Oak Hill School (1911)
121 (1875)
Hungerford Street
77 Swedish Zion Congregational Church – Hartford Full Gospel Church (1892)
Imlay Street
1 Eliza Brazell House (1875)
Jefferson Street
142 Levi Lincoln Felt House (1879)
Kane Street
50 Our Lady of Fatima Church (1988)
Keney Terrace
27 Dr. Frank T. Simpson House (1912)
Kenyon Street
65 Charles A. Atkins House (1900)
96 Eugene Kenyon Farmhouse (1870)
Lafayette Street
129 Second Church of Christ Scientist (1927)
Lawrence Street
227 Cathedral Lyceum (1895)
Lewis Street
24 (1824)
25 Lewis Rowell House (1851)
30 (1840)
31-33 (1928)
36 (1840)
Linden Place
1 The Linden (1891)
Lorraine Street
55 (1900)
Mahl (F.D. Oates) Avenue
2 Mather Homestead – Chevre Kadishe Teferes Israel – Excelsior Lodge No. 16 (1840)
61 Marietta Canty House (1897)
Main Street
75 South Park Methodist Church (1875)
118 Henry Barnard House (1807)
160 St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church (1868)
214 Ellery Hills House (1840)
277 South Congregational Church (1827)
357-367 McKone Block (1875)
389 Hotel Capitol (1875)
396 Butler-McCook House (1782)
457 Central Baptist Church (1926)
550 Municipal Building (1915)
600 Wadsworth Atheneum (1844)
600 Wadsworth Atheneum: Colt Memorial Building (1906)
600 Wadsworth Atheneum: Morgan Memorial Building (1910)
600 Wadsworth Atheneum: Avery Memorial Building (1934)
675 Center Congregational Church (1807)
750 Hartford-Connecticut Trust Company (1920)
755 One Financial Plaza (Gold Building) (1975)
777 Hartford National Bank & Trust Company (1967)
800 Old State House (1796)
811 Corning Building (1929)
894 Sage-Allen Building (1898)
942 Cheney Building – Richardson Building (1876)
955 Christ Church Cathedral (1828)
960 G. Fox & Company (1918)
1306 Keney Memorial Clock Tower (1898)
1545-1555 The Belden (1898)
1821 Old North Cemetery Office (1890)
1846-1850 Widows’ Homes (1865)
1921 Memorial Church of St. Thomas – Union Baptist Church (1871)
2030 Windsor Avenue Congregational Church – Faith Congregational Church (1871)
2051 North Methodist Episcopal Church – Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1874)
3580 Fuller Brush Factory (1922)
May Street
19 Adventist Church (1929)
New Park Avenue
55 Grace Episcopal Church (1868)
79 Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church (1925)
85 Missionaries of Our Lady of LaSalette (1894)
North Beacon Street
176 Freeman Harris, Jr. House (1907)
Oxford Street
127 James B. Cone House (1894)
164 (1915)
192-194 (1908)
Park Street
560 Former Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church (1894)
784 St. Anne-Immaculate Conception Church (1926)
1886 St. Paul’s Methodist Church – Tempolo Sion Pentecostal Church (1900)
2050-2052 (1917)
Park Terrace
2-24 (1895)
Pearl Street
215 Ados Israel Synagogue (1924)
234 City Mission Building (1891)
249 Telephone Building (1890)
266 Hartford Electric Light Company (1914)
Popieluszko Court (Governor Street)
60 Capewell Horse Nail Company Office Building (1900)
63 SS Cyril and Methodius Church (1917)
Pratt Street
31 Society for Savings (1893)
45-51 (1919)
66 Unity Building (1891)
69-71 Dillon Building (1899)
73-77 Stearns Building (1897)
88 Cook Building (1888)
99 Steiger Building (1927)
Prospect Avenue
714 Henry R. Hovey House (1901)
726 Henry Dwight Bradburn House (1900)
734 Dr. J.W. Felty House (1910)
810 Isidore Wise House (1907)
820 George W. Ellis House (1902)
830 Sylvester C. Dunham House (1904)
870 Grace Seventh Day Adventist Church (1915)
990 Governor’s Residence (1909)
1020 Alfred C. Fuller House (1917)
1040 Beatrice Fox Auerbach House (1911)
1144 (1912)
1210 (1926)
1234 Elisha Wadsworth House (1828)
Prospect Street
10 Hartford Times Building (1920)
34 B.P.O. Elks Lodge (1903)
46 The Hartford Club (1904)
56 The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (1932)
Retreat Avenue
79 Hartford Hospital: Brownstone Building (1923)
79 Hartford Hospital: Hall-Wilson Laboratory (1922)
200 Institute of Living: Elizabeth Chapel (1875)
200 Institute of Living: White Hall (1877)
200 Institute of Living: Burlingame Building (1948)
Russ Street
61 DeWitt C. Perry House (1871)
87 Swedish Zion Congregational Church – Hartford Full Gospel Church (1892)
110 Swedish Bethel Baptist Church – St. Volodymyr’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church (1900)
174 Our Saviour’s Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church – Spanish Seventh Day Adventist Church (1891)
Sargeant Street
246 (1897)
Scarborough Street
105 G. Burgess Fisher House (1930)
130 A. Everett Austin, Jr. House (1930)
205 All Saints Orthodox Church (1964)
235 First Church of Christ Scientist (1956)
Sherman Street
21 Adeline Chadwick House (1877)
25 Nathan Bosworth House (1878)
77 Hartford Seminary (1981)
Sigourney Street
120 Trinity Episcopal Church (1892)
270 (1916)
Sisson Avenue
170 Albert Sisson House (1867)
South Prospect Street
63 Amos Bull House (1788)
Spring Street
105 Calvin Day House (1852)
State House Square
1 First National Bank (1899)
Summit Street
300 Trinity College Long Walk (1883)
300 Trinity College Chapel (1932)
Terry Road
70 Ward S. Jacobs House (1929)
191 (1923)
223 (1922)
Tower Avenue
Wilfred X. Johnson House (1928)
Tower Square
1 Travelers Tower (1919)
Trinity Street
18-20 Orient Insurance Company Building (1905)
30 Phoenix Insurance Company (1917)
Trumbull Street
55 Southern New England Telephone Company Building (1931)
150 Shoor Building (1909)
190 Charter Oak Bank (1861)
196 Heublein Building (1896)
Union Place
1 Union Station (1889)
Van Dyke Avenue
55 Colt Armory (1865)
Vine Street
23 Fourth Congregational Church – Horace Bushnell Congregational Church – Liberty
Christian Center International (1914)
47 Charles B. Andrus House (1915)
Violet Street
15 John Marsh House (1783)
Washington Street
95 Hartford County Building (1929)
130 Lucius Barbour House (1865)
247 Samuel N. Kellogg House (1877)
Webster Street
96 George W. Fuller House (1875)
Westerly Terrace
118 Wallace Stevens House (1926)
Wethersfield Avenue
14 Gail Borden Munsill House (1895)
55 Ashmead-Colt House (1859)
80 Armsmear (1857)
81 Day-Taylor House (1858)
135 St Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church (1952)
154 James Colt House (1856)
585 Henry C. Dwight School (1885)
Winthrop Street
49 Sacred Heart Church (1917)
Woodland Street
22 Theodore Lyman House – Town and County Club (1895)
39 Melancthon W. Jacobus House (1908)
46 Grace Lutheran Church (1951)
49 Perkins-Clark House (1861)
500 Emmanuel Synagogue – Faith Seventh Day Adventist Church (1927)
Woodside Circle
1 Frank L. Prentice House (1926)
Wyllys Street
45 Munsill Carriage House (1893)
155 Church of the Good Shepherd (1869)
155 Church of the Good Shepherd Parish House (1896)
Links
Hartford Preservation Alliance
http://www.hartfordpreservation.org/
Hartford History Center
http://www.hplct.org/hhc/wordpress/
Hartford History
http://hartfordhistory.net/
Hartford Walking Tours
http://www.hartfordwalkingtours.com/
Neighborhood Change in Connecticut 1934 to Current Year
http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/otl/neighborhood_change.html
Hartford Black History Project
http://hartford-hwp.com/HBHP/
Hartford African American Heritage Trail Tour
http://hartfordheritagetrail.org/
Hispanic Hartford
http://www.hispanichartford.org/
Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford
http://www.jhsgh.org/
Neighborhoods of Hartford
http://hartford.omaxfield.com/neighborhoods.html
Hartford Skyscraper Diagram
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?cityID=224
Hartford Architecture Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/x-25529-Hartford-Architecture-Examiner
Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford
http://www.foundersofhartford.org/
A Shoeleather History of Hartford
http://homefront.homestead.com/ShoeleatherMainPage.html
History of the City of Hartford Fire Department
http://fire.hartford.gov/history/history.htm
Sad City Hartford
http://sadcityhartford.blogspot.com/
Urban Compass (blog)
http://urbancompass.net/
Geer’s Hartford, Connecticut 1873-74 City Residential and Business Directory
http://www.distantcousin.com/Directories/CT/Hartford/1873/
Park River Watershed Revitalization Initiative
http://www.parkriver.org/index.html
Capitol Area
Connecticut State Capitol Tours
http://www.cga.ct.gov/capitoltours/
Museum of Connecticut History
http://www.museumofcthistory.org/
Bushnell Memorial Theater
http://www.bushnell.org/
Bushnell Park Foundation
http://www.bushnellpark.org/
Main Street
The Old State House
http://www.ctoldstatehouse.org/
The Ancient Burying Ground
http://www.theancientburyingground.org/
Wadsworth Atheneum
http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/
Butler-McCook House & Garden (CT Landmarks)
http://www.ctlandmarks.org/index.php?page=butler-mccook-house-garden
Nook Farm
Mark Twain’s Neighborhood: Nook Farm
http://www.fingerpostproductions.com/nook_farm/index.html
The Mark Twain House and Museum
http://www.marktwainhouse.org/
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/
Asylum Hill/West End
Northside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance
http://www.ninahartford.org/index.html
West End Civic Association: Architectural History & Resources
http://www.westend.org/archRes/
Farmington Avenue Alliance
http://www.farmingtonavenue.org/
Kenyon Street
http://www.kenyonstreethartford.org/
Hartford Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens
http://www.wesleyan.edu/wstevens/stevens.html
Connecticut Historical Society
http://www.chs.org/
Austin House
http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/learn/museum-austin-house.php
South
Coltsville Study
http://www.coltsvillestudy.org/index.htm
Trinity College
http://www.trincoll.edu/
Watkinson Library (Trinity College)
http://library.trincoll.edu/research/watk/
Cedar Hill Cemetery
http://www.cedarhillcemetery.org/
North
Spring Grove Cemetery
http://www.springgrovecemeteryhartford.com/
Isham-Terry House (CT Landmarks)
http://www.ctlandmarks.org/index.php?page=isham-terry-house
Books
Hartford in history: A series of papers by resident authors (1907), edited by Willis I. Twitchell
Historical Notices of Connecticut: Hartford (1842), by William S. Porter
Hartford in the Olden Time; its First Thirty Years (1853)
A Quaker’s Visit to Hartford in the Year 1676 (1914), edited by Frank D. Andrews
Wadsworth or The Charter Oak (1904), by William Henry Gocher
Business Men of the City of Hartford (Connecticut) in the Year 1799 (1909), by Frank D. Andrews
Directory for the City of Hartford for the Year 1799 (1910), by Frank D. Andrews
The Negro population of Hartford, Connecticut (1921), by Charles S. Johnson
Guides and Picture Books
Hartford Illustrated: Indelible Photographs (1891)
Sunlight Pictures, Hartford (1892)
Hartford and its points of interest: Illustrated from original photographs (1895)
Trips by trolley and a-wheel around Hartford (1899)
Trips by Trolley Around Hartford (1901)
The Picturesque Parks of Hartford (1903)
Souvenir of the public parks of Hartford, Conn. (1905)
Hartford in 1912 : Story of the Capitol City, Present and Prospective (1912)
Culture and Institutions
Catalogue of paintings, now exhibiting in Wadsworth Gallery, Hartford (1863)
History of Battle-Flag Day, September 17, 1879 (1879)
Services at the dedication of Hosmer Hall Chapel, Hartford, May 13, 1880 (1880)
Trinity College, Hartford (1886), by Samuel Hart
Hartford election cake, and other receipts (1889), by Ellen Terry Johnson
Armsmear: The Home, the Arm, and the Armory of Samuel Colt. A Memorial (1866)
Fiftieth anniversary of the Hartford Medical Society, founded September 15, 1846 (1896)
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford Connecticut, 1863-1903 (1903)
Restoring of the Ancient Burying-Ground of Hartford and the Widening of Gold Street (1904)
Quadrennial catalogue of the Hartford Public High School, 1904 (1905)
The Sixty-Seventh Annual report of the directors of the Hartford Public Library (1905)
Hartford: An Epic Poem (1905), by William Colegrove
Exercises in celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Hartford Theological Seminary (1909)
The evolution of a building lot, the Travelers Insurance Company (1913)
First century of the Phoenix national bank of Hartford (1914), by Charles W. Burpee
Centennial history of the Society for Savings of Hartford, Connecticut, 1819-1919 (1919)
Churches
Historical Sketches of the First Church in Hartford: a Centennial Discourse (1836), by Joel Hawes
History of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1883 (1884), by George Leon Walker
Historical Catalogue of the First Church in Hartford. 1633-1885 (1885)
Year Book of the First Church of Christ in Hartford (1897)
The First Church of Christ in Hartford: the Ministers, the Meeting Houses, the Memorial Gifts (1915)
History of the Second Church of Christ in Hartford (1892), by Edwin Pond Parker
A Brief History of the Formation of the North Church, in Hartford, Connecticut (1832)
History of the Diocese of Hartford (1900), by Rev. James H. O’Donnell
Contributions to the History of Christ Church, Hartford (1895)
Index to the Manuscript Records of the Parish of Christ Church, Hartford, Conn., 1786-1865 (1896)
There are more than 400 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Hartford County, including 21 National Historic Landmarks. The city of Hartford is the location of 139 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 Hartford and other municipalities in the county; they appear on multiple lists.
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