This video is about the branches in downtown Hartford of four major variety stores: F. W. Woolworth Co., W. T. Grant Co., J. J. Newberry Co., and S. S. Kresge Co.
There was once a hotel at the corner of Trumbull and Pratt Streets in Hartford. When it was torn down in the early 1920s it was called the Clifton House. Earlier, it was known as the Madison House and before that, in the early 1890s, as the Pratt Street House. My latest Substack article is about an unusual incident that took place at the hotel in 1892.
This video is about a section of Main Street in Hartford that was depicted in a 1774 map showing several buildings that existed there at the time. In the video I talk about the people who occupied these structures, including a pastor who was dismissed for drunkenness, an indebted surgeon and apothecary who sold enslaved people, and a young widow who took the Connecticut Courant newspaper.
Check out my latest article on Substack. It’s the story of a shoe store manager who left Hartford (and his wife and family) the day after Christmas, 1917 on a cross-country spending spree with a young woman using embezzled funds.
As a follow-up to my last Substack post, in my latest post I present two Hartford examples of a dramatic aspect of the construction of steel-framed buildings in the early twentieth century: the tossing of red hot rivets across large distances by teams of iron workers.
My fourth article for Substack is about a 15-story office tower that stood on Main Street in Hartford from 1921 until it was demolished in 1974.
The third article for my Hartford Substack is about Gundlach’s jewelry store, which was located at 20 State Street from 1859 until 1927. Above is an 1860s view of buildings on State Street near the corner of Main Street. The white awning on the far right (on the ground floor of the three-story building) reads “Deming & Gundlach.” The building was later raised to four stories. It was torn down in the 1980s to make way for the State House Square development (Picture Source: Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, Accession number 1956.84.135)
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