Built in 1920 on Prospect Street as headquarters for the Hartford Times, the city’s evening newspaper, which existed from 1817 to 1976. Designed by Donn Barber, the Beaux-Arts building features six green granite Ionic columns salvaged from the Madison Square Presbyterian Church in New York (designed by Stanford White; built in 1906, demolished in 1919 to make way for the Met Life Building’s expansion). The recessed porch also features allegorical scenes. For many years, the building hosted campaign speeches by presidential candidates. Current plans for the building involve its adaptive reuse as an annex of the neighboring Wadsworth Atheneum, as such it will be an important part of the Adriaen’s Landing development.
Hartford Times Building (1920)
Given that it already has the aesthetic appeal, I hope it will soon be converted to a museum of Natural Science/Paleontology or History or a major Metropolitan Museum of Art versus that of a law school as a certain someone previously suggested.
Or…perhaps a….brewery?????
University of Connecticut is looking into the property for their new Hartford Campus