Videos

This video is about two churches that were moved from one street across town to another street in Hartford, CT. The Unitarian Church of the Savior (built in 1846) was moved in 1860 from Trumbull Street to Sigourney Street to become Trinity Episcopal Church. It was torn down in the 1890s. The Gleenwood Congregational Church (built in 1897) was moved in 1907 from Laurel Street to Park Street and Park Terrace, where it was renamed Pilgrim Congregational Church. In 1914 the congregation dissolved and the church became St. Paul’s English Lutheran Church, which later merged with Trinity Lutheran Church in 1943 to become Grace Lutheran Church. The former church building was then home to the French Social Club, which replaced it in the 1960s.

There’s a higher quality picture of the moving of the Glenwood Church in 1907 here: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:18644

The church had to be moved over the Laurel Street Bridge which had undergone repairs earlier that same year: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object…

The site where the church was moved to is now a housing development: https://www.hubonpark.com/

In the video I use a section from the Hartford Atlases of 1880 and 1909. The 1880 Atlas can be found here: http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas…

The 1909 Atlas can be found here: http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas…

Grace Lutheran Church is here: https://www.graceistheplace.org/

The French Social Circle is here: https://www.facebook.com/FrenchSocial…

My latest video is about a photograph of State Street in Hartford from c. 1900. I describe all of the buildings that lined the street and what became of them. This is an expansion of my previous post about this photo. If you enjoy the video, please remember to hit the “Like” button. Also, please consider subscribing to the channel!

This video is about crows that roosted on Washington Street in Hartford 120 years ago near the now lost home Colonel Charles A. Jewell. Four years later he had lot of crocuses on his lawn.

This video looks at buildings along Central Row, the street just south of the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut. Long gone structures include the Ellsworth Block, where the Marble Pillar restaurant had its origins in 1860, the Marble Block (Hartford’s second Marble-front building), the Universalist Church of 1824, the Hartford Museum, and the Hungerford & Cone Building, once home to many of Hartford’s lawyers. Surviving structures are two skyscrapers: the 1921 Hartford-Connecticut Trust Company Building and the 1928 Travelers Building; and an 1850 brownstone building at 6 Central Row.

I want to also share a link to a picture I couldn’t use in the video because it’s owned by the Connecticut Historical Society. It shows the old Ellsworth Block after many alterations were made to have a hall, formerly for the Elks, but by the time of the photo for the Central Labor Union, also used by the Eagles (note the Eagle depicted on the building). Honiss Oyster House is in the building, which might be surprising because it’s across the street from their longtime location on the other side of the Old State House on State Street. The picture was taken in 1924, when Honiss had to briefly relocate because the old building on State Street was being replaced. Soon after this image was taken, the restaurant moved back across the street into the new building, but this photo captures a short period of time when two Hartford institutions, Honiss and the Marble Pillar, were right near each other!

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:9960

My latest video is about the Allyn House, a grand hotel that stood at the corner of Asylum and Trumbull Streets, where the Hartford 21 Building is today.