Across from the Isham-Terry House, which is preserved as a museum in Hartford by Connecticut Landmarks, is another mid-nineteenth century Italianate house. Built around 1855, the house at 220 High Street is not in the best condition today but, together with the Isham-Terry House, it is a reminder of an era when the area around High Street had many middle class residences. The house is attributed to architect William G. Allen. The porch is enclosed and perhaps has been since it was built.
220 High Street, Hartford (1855)
I was at the Isham Terry house a few weekends ago and noticed this Italianate across the street. What a perfect project house! Thanks for posting it. Do you have any info on the turreted queen anne house on ann uccello street which you can see from it. It looks abandoned but is a really spectacular polychrome house.
I grew up in this house. It was my Great grandparents home. The ran a rooming house called Carney’s Tourist Inn. They bought it in the late 30’s. There were 12 rooms that were rented and 2 private apartments where we lived. My great grandparents and grandparents died. My brothers lived there until the city bought it. I knew the Isham sisters while growing up. Charlotte and Julia.
I,was raised and lived around the corner from this house at 11 Atlantic ST til 1985 that my father sold the house to The Hartford Civic Center at that time for parking space, now 2016 the Hartford Police station is in that space.
There are so many of these big square Italianate houses of dark brick in Hartford. I was finding it hard to identify neighborhoods left over from Hartford’s era as richest city in the nation but I take it these big Italianate houses are the evidence. Many of them still standing but broken up into apartments or rooming houses. Unlike, say, Boston, where the wealthy late 19th century neighborhoods survive intact, it’s harder to imagine the past in Hartford.