What are the most iconic buildings in Hartford, Connecticut? This video lists 20 structures that symbolize the city and its importance in history.
Hartford’s Lost Pavilion House

In my recent Substack article I talk about a lost Federal style mansion that stood on Pavilion Street in the city’s Clay-Arsenal neighborhood. Check out the article to learn more about this house’s history, which over the years served as a billiard resort and a school.
New Video on Hartford’s Lost Ely Mansion
My latest video is about two lost Hartford mansions. The Ely family homes stood on Main Street, where the Capitol Prep Magnet School is today. They were built in 1811 and 1830-1832 by William Ely, a wealthy shipping merchant who had a town called Elyton named for him in Alabama. Elton was later absorbed into the city of Birmingham, but the Elyton Hotel in Birmingham and Ely Street in Hartford perpetuate his name today.
New Video about the Keney Memorial Clock Tower
This video gives the background on the Keney Memorial Clock Tower in Hartford, Connecticut. It was built on the site of Henry and Walter Keney’s wholesale grocery business and next door was the brother’s Greek Revival style mansion, which is now lost. There is doubt about whether the Tower was built as a monument to Keney business or to the mother who raised them.
New Compilation Video: Hartford Department Stores
This is a compilation of my videos about Hartford department stores: Steiger-Vedder, Sage-Allen, Wise-Smith, Brown-Thomson, G. Fox, and the West Hartford Lord & Taylor.
New Video: 15 Lost Mansions of Hartford
This video features fifteen houses considered to be mansions in their time that were built between 1798 and the 1870s in Hartford, CT. They range from the elegant Federal-style residences of the early 1800s to later homes built in the Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate and French Second Empire styles.
New Video: Hartford’s Lost Riverfront
This video is a series of extended quotations from the Hartford Courant newspaper printed between 1905 and 1908 about old buildings that existed along the Connecticut River in Hartford, Connecticut, some that were lost when the Bulkeley Bridge was built in 1908 and some when the Valley Railroad came through in 1871.
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