General Videos
Downtown Hartford’s Five Worst Neighborhood Obliterations
Eight Worst Examples of Buildings Downtown Replaced by Parking Lots
Hartford’s Twenty Most Iconic Buildings
Great Buildings and Architecture on Main Street
Washington and Rochambeau in Hartford
Specific Subject Areas
Hartford’s Lost Riverfront
My first video about the lost riverfront area, my second, my third, my fourth
Dutch Point I (Early History), Dutch Point II (Log Drives), Dutch Point III (Power Plant)
Videos About Houses
Three Lost Colonial Houses on Main Street
Pliny Jewell House on Farmington Avenue and his Famous Frogs
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oakholm
Mark Twain’s Nook Farm, Architecture of the Mark Twain House
Lost Mansions of Washington Street
Vanderbilt Mansion in West Hartford
Videos About Retail and Restaurants
Compilation of Department Store Videos
Early History of G. Fox & Co., Later History of G. Fox & Co., G. Fox Marquee Christmas Village
Sage, Allen & Co., Wise, Smith & Co., Brown-Thomson & Co.
Five and Dimes (F. W. Woolworth, W. T. Grant, J. J. Newberry, S. S. Kresge)
J. J. Newberry, S. S. Kresge and Steiger’s, W. T. Grant and Honiss Oyster House, Frank’s Restaurant (partway through video)
Honiss Oyster House and the Marble Pillar
Pippie’s, DePasquale’s, Clover leaf Cafe, Mickey’s, Frank’s
Thanksgiving Inflation at the Capitol Grill
Lord & Taylor (Bishops Corner in West Hartford)
Videos About Other Specific Lost Buildings (and a Famous Tree)
Lost Movie Theaters, State Theater, Grand/New Parsons Theater, Empire Theater
Hartford Public High School (Hopkins and Broad Streets, and earlier at Trumbull and Ann Streets)
The Phoenix National Bank (across from the Old State House)
Hartford’s First Skyscraper (corner of Main and Asylum Streets)
Allyn House Hotel (corner of Trumbull and Asylum Streets)
Trinity College’s Lost Campus (at site of State Capitol)
Union Station and Auditorium Building Fires of 1914
Pearl Street Congregational Church
Two Churches that were Moved from One Street to Another
What Used to Stand Where There’s a Modern Landmark
Bushnell Plaza, Wadsworth Atheneum and Municipal Building, Travelers Tower (1919), Travelers Building (1956)
XL Center (Trumbull Street Side), XL Center (Lost Allyn Street)
Constitution Plaza (State Street Side), Constitution Plaza (Market Street Side), Constitution Plaza (Front Street Side)
Gold Building, “Stilts” Building, City Place, Brownstone Building
Dunkin’ Park, The Pennant Apartments
Barnard-Brown/Capitol Prep Magnet School
In Front of the Ancient Burial Ground
Hartford Hospital, Saint Francis Hospital
Walk Videos
Videos About Specific Streets
Asylum Street
North Side Between Main and Trumbull Streets
Northeast Corner of Main Street (Brownstone Building)
Northwest Corner of Main Street (Allyn House Hotel)
Auditorium Building Fire of 1914 (SECOND HALF OF VIDEO)
North Side Between Trumbull and Ann Streets
South Side Between Asylum and Trumbull Streets I , J. P. Morgan’s Birthplace
South Side Between Asylum and Trumbull Streets II (Savitt)
South Side Between Asylum and Trumbull Streets III (Huntington’s Bookstore)
South Side Between Asylum and Trumbull Streets IV
South Side Between Trumbull and Ann Streets (City Place)
South Side Between Ann and Ford Streets (Empire Theater)
Central Row (and American Row)
American Row and Prospect Street Before the Phoenix Boat Building
Farmington Avenue
Lost Pliny Jewell House (on site of Ambassador Apartments)
Front Street
Main Street
1849 View Towards Main Street from Asylum Hill
Great Buildings and Architecture on Main Street
Three Lost Colonial Houses (Whiting House and two Talcott Houses)
East Side Between Arch Street and Atheneum Square (Site of the Wadsworth Atheneum and Municipal Building), Washington and Rochambeau at Wadsworth House
East Side Between Atheneum Square and Grove Street (Site of Travelers Tower)
East Side Between Grove Street and Central Row (Site of 1956 Travelers Building)
East Side Between Kinsley and Temple Streets (Sage-Allen & Co.)
East Side Between Temple and Talcott Streets (Cheney Building/Brown-Thomson & Co.)
East Side Between Temple Street and Talcott Streets (Early History of G. Fox & Co.)
East Side Between Temple Street and Talcott Streets (Later History of G. Fox & Co.)
East Side Between Temple and Talcott Streets (G. Fox Christmas Marquee)
East Side Between Talcott and Morgan Streets
State Theater (Village Street, just off Main Street)
East Side Between Morgan and Trumbull Streets (Pennant Apartments)
East Side Between Trumbull and Pleasant Streets (Dunkin’ Park)
East Side Between Pleasant and Ely Streets (Ely Mansions)
East Side Between Pleasant and Ely Streets (Keney Memorial Clock Tower)
West Side Between Park and Buckingham Streets (in circa 1774)
West Side Between Wells and Gold Streets (Site of Bushnell Plaza)
West Side Between Gold and Pearl Streets I: Center Church and Ancient Burial Ground
West Side Between Gold and Pearl Streets II: Gold Building
Northwest corner of Pearl Street (Union Hall – CT Mutual Life Insurance Building)
Phoenix National Bank (across from the Old State House)
Northwest corner of Asylum Street (Catlin Buildings – Hartford-Aetna Realty Building)
West Side Between Asylum and Pratt Street (J. J. Newberry, S. S. Kresge, Steiger’s)
West Side Between Pratt and Church Streets (Wise, Smith & Co.)
West Side Between Church Street and Chapel Street (Stilts Building)
West Side Between Chapel and Trumbull Streets I (Needham’s Corner)
West Side Between Chapel and Trumbull Streets II (Grand/New Parsons Theater)
Market Street
East Side Between State Street and Talcott Street
West Side Between State Street and Talcott Street
East and West Side North of Talcott Street
Pearl Street
North Side Between Main and Trumbull Streets
Pearl Street Congregational Church
North Side Between Trumbull and Ford Streets
South Side Between Main and Trumbull Streets
South Side Between Trumbull and Jewell Streets
State Street
An old photograph of State Street (Between Main and Market Streets)
Between Main and Market Streets (W. T. Grant, Honiss Oyster House)
North Side Between Market and Front Streets
South Side Between Market and Front Streets (IN LATER PART OF VIDEO)
North and South Sides Between Front and Commerce Streets
Trumbull Street
Northwest Corner of Asylum Street (Allyn House Hotel)
West Side Between Asylum and Allyn Streets (XL Center)
Northeast Corner of Asylum Street (Brownstone Building)
Thanksgiving Inflation at the Capitol Grill (in the Brownstone Building)
Washington Street
Lost Mansions of Washington Street
Crows roosting on Washington Street