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

Five Interesting Things About the 1877 View of Hartford (Covered Bridge, Lost Post Office, Baseball Grounds, Dutch Point, Trinity College)

Five MORE Interesting Things About the 1877 View of Hartford (State Arsenal, Old Union Station, Garden Street Reservoir, West End, Charter Oak Park Racing)

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

Fifteen Lost Mansions

Three Lost Colonial Houses on Main Street

Barnabas Deane House

Pliny Jewell House on Farmington Avenue and his Famous Frogs

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oakholm

Goodwin Castle

Mark Twain’s Nook Farm, Architecture of the Mark Twain House

J. P. Morgan’s Birthplace

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

Savitt (P.O.M.G.)

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)

The Bond Hotel Annexes

Isle of Safety

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

The Charter Oak

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)

Phoenix (Boat) Building

Gold Building, “Stilts” Building, City Place, Brownstone Building

Dunkin’ Park, The Pennant Apartments

Keney Memorial Clock Tower

Barnard-Brown/Capitol Prep Magnet School

In Front of the Ancient Burial Ground

Hartford Hospital, Saint Francis Hospital

Armsmear and Colt Park

Walk Videos

Around the Old State House

Elizabeth Park

West Hartford Center

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

Union Station Fire of 1914

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)

Bond Hotel

Central Row (and American Row)

Central Row

American Row and Prospect Street Before the Phoenix Boat Building

Farmington Avenue

Lost Pliny Jewell House (on site of Ambassador Apartments)

Front Street

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)

Corner of State Street

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

Olney House in Southington [part of this video relates to Hartford’s lost First District School on Market 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)

Isle of Safety

Corner of Main Street

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

Other Streets

Ann Uccello Street

Charter Oak Place

Governor Street

Pratt Street

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