This video is about the various buildings of Sage-Allen department store in Hartford, Connecticut. It first opened in 1889 at the corner of Main and Pratt Streets in a building previously occupied by the older dry goods store of Talcott & Post. In 1898, Sage-Allen erected its own building across the street, right next door to a building opened in 1894 by R. Ballerstein’s millinery store. Major expansions or alterations to Sage-Allen were opened in 1905, 1911, 1917, 1929 and 1967. The Hartford store closed in 1990.
This video is about lost buildings and the communities that erected them in a section of the old East Side of Hartford, Connecticut that was transformed by redevelopment in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Starting on the south side of Talcott Street, east of Market Street, I talk about St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church. Moving to the northeast corner of Market and Talcott Streets, I talk about the Brown School, where generations of children on the east side were educated. The school was built in 1868 and had annexes erected in 1897 and 1923. Next, I move to the northwest side of the intersection to talk about the Talcott Street Congregational Church, which was home to Hartford’s oldest African American congregation. The first church building was erected here in 1826 and the second in 1906. Next, I talk about three buildings that once stood along Market Street north of the intersection with Morgan Street. First is a silk mill erected in 1854 where ribbon was produced by the Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company of Manchester, Connecticut. Next, I talk about Ados Israel Synagogue, erected in 1899 by Hartford’s oldest Orthodox congregation. Lastly I talk about the Union Settlement, a charitable organization that started as the Union for Home Work.
This video is about Armsmear, the estate of Samuel Colt in Hartford, Connecticut. The mansion survives today but the landscape, which once included picturesque ponds, statuary and an extensive complex of greenhouses, has been replaced with athletic facilities and a lawn.
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.
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.
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.
