Today’s Aetna, Inc. is the descendant of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, which was incorporated in 1853. In 1931, their corporate headquarters building was constructed on Farmington Avenue in Hartford. Designed by James Gamble Rogers, it is a Colonial Revival building far more monumental than any actually built during the colonial period. In a sense it is like the Old State House on steroids, and shares some stylistic similarities with that historic structure.
Aetna Building (1931)
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Gorgeous building!
My Danish mother-in-law was born in Hartford CT, in 1929. He family moved back to Denmark in 1935. She gave me a paperweight of the Ætna Building. She is now 95 years old. She gave it to me because I am American and will appreciate it. Just a little story.