In 1918, Hudson Street in Hartford was extended north of Buckingham Street through Capitol Avenue to Elm Street and then across a new bridge over the Park River. The new road plowed through the middle of a block of row houses, a c. 1750 house (that has once been the home of Hartford’s first mayor and then President’s Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy), and another old house built in the 1790s. The bridge over the Park River only existed for about a quarter-century before the river was put through an underground conduit and Pulaski Circle was created.
New Video: Hartford Buildings Destroyed by the Extension of Hudson Street