Miscellaneous Buildings, Part Five
New Video: Hartford’s Lost Castle
This video is about the James Goodwin House, also known as Woodlands and the Goodwin Castle. Built in 1871, it stood near the intersection of Asylum Avenue and Woodland Street in Hartford. Once the largest private home in the state, it was torn down in 1940.
(more…)Darragan Building and Larue Building (1891)
The adjacent buildings at 238 and 240-242 Main Street in Danbury were built simultaneously in 1891-1892. The Darragan Building (on the left in the image above) was designed by local architect Joel Foster in the Romanesque Revival style with terra cotta tile decoration around the arched windows. In 1913 the building was acquired by the Danbury and Bethel Gas and Electric Light Company and sold in 1965. It currently has businesses on the ground floor and apartments above. The Larue Building next door, at 240-242 Main Street, was designed by Leoni W. Robinson of New Haven in a similar style with brownstone window ornamentation.
Dr. Charles H. Gilbert House (1856)
A 2001 walking tour of Main Street in Portland by Doris Sherrow (which I can no longer find online) lists the house at 576 Main Street as the home of Dr. Charles H. Gilbert with a construction date of 1856. It also explains that Gilbert married one of the daughters of Rev. Hervey Talcott, who lived next door at 572 Main Street. According to genealogical sites, it was Charles Henry Gilbert‘s father, Dr. Gershom Clark Hyde Gilbert (1817-1889) who married Rev. Talcott’s third daughter, Harriette in 1845. Dr. Talcott left Portland in 1867, later living for periods in Waterbury, Hartford and Westbrook.
New Video on Hartford’s Old East Side: Market Street (west side between State Street and Talcott Street)
This video is about buildings and businesses that have existed on the west side of Market Street, between State Street and Talcott Street in Hartford, Connecticut. This area, including the adjacent Kinsley and Temple Streets, was once the location of A. Squires & Son Grocery store, Blodgett & Clapp iron merchants, the D’Esopo Bank, the original home of the Hartford Stage, and Hartford’s old Greek Revival-style City Hall, later the site of Police Headquarters. In this vicinity in 1937 a dramatic engineering project moved an 8-story building 125 feet from behind G. Fox & Co. to the rear of Brown-Thomson Co. There is also a former church on Market Street that is the only building there that survives from the nineteenth century.
Fifteenth Anniversary!
Today is the fifteenth anniversary of Historic Buildings of Connecticut, which started with a post about the Joseph Webb House back on April 30, 2007. Back then the house was still red! Thank you all for reading this site and don’t forget to visit (and subscribe!) to my YouTube Channel at History with Dan Sterner – YouTube.
New Video on Hartford’s Old East Side: Market Street before Constitution Plaza
This video is about the block of Market Street, between State Street and Talcott Street, where Constitution Plaza is today. Buildings that used to be here were the Farmers & Mechanics Bank, the Nolan Building (once the home of MIckey’s Villanova Restaurant), Charles G. Lincoln (importers of coffee), the site of the 1816 Stone Schoolhouse, the Clover Leaf Cafe, the American Theater, the Barbour Silver Company, the William Rogers Manufacturing Company (producers of silver plate), Hartford original Baptist Church of 1798, the Warburton Chapel and the onetime home of the Aetna Radiophone Corporation of America.
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