The thumbnail for my latest YouTube video compares a 1930s WPA photograph of an 18th-century saltbox house in Glastonbury (the Jehiel Goodrich House, 620 Main Street) with a contemporary photo. In the video I go through every house I can identify as built before 1800 (and a few after that date!) on Main Street in Glastonbury and show the WPA image for each if there is one. That’s nearly 70 surviving houses (and a few photos of now lost ones too).
My latest video is about the houses and architecture of Hartford’s Kenyon Street. The street has a number of houses designed by the architect and builder William Scoville, such as the two pictured above. These and many other houses built between 1890 and 1917 (including two from the 1870s) are featured in the video!
The modern apartment building on Arch Street in Hartford stands on the site of a once-famous Hartford tree: the Ledyard Elm. My latest video is about John Ledyard, the famous traveler, and the fate of the tree he planted back in 1773.
I’ve made a compilation of my videos about the history of Pearl Street in Hartford, which had great architecture and was called Hartford’s “Wall Street!” Its now lost buildings included banks and insurance companies, an early design by H. H. Richardson, the location of the city’s old fire bell, the telephone exchange (home of the “Hello Girls”), Plimpton’s, the Halls of Record, and much more! Check it out!
My latest video continues to reveal the forgotten history of Prospect Street in Hartford. Focusing on the east side of the street, I show houses where fascinating people lived, including notable lawyers, judges, authors, and business innovators. The houses were replaced by ornate buildings that housed important social clubs, organizations, and the home of the Hartford Times.
My latest video is about the west side of Prospect Street in Hartford (between Central Row and Atheneum Street) where a row of historic houses came to be replaced by the expansion of Travelers in the twentieth century. Some of these houses were the residences of prominent figures like the original publisher of the Hartford Courant, the founder of one of Hartford’s oldest law firms, the man who inspired a historic library and museum in a small Connecticut Town, and more! Also, the stable where George Washington kept his horse in 1780! The houses later became the homes of several important social clubs!
My latest video is about the Cheney family’s historic homes and mansions that are clustered together near the Great Lawn in Manchester. Fifteen survive today that were built between 1785 and the 1920s.
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