This video is about three mansions built for three generations of Perkins family lawyers in Hartford, Connecticut. Enoch Perkins settled in Hartford in 1786 and soon built a house on Main Street that survived until 1795. His son, Thomas Clap Perkins, once lived in a house in the city’s Nook Farm neighborhood which has also been lost. Thomas’ son, Charles E. Perkins, erected a residence (with a similar Gothic Revival style to his father’s former home) in 1861, and that house survives today off Woodland Street. The fourth generation lawyer, Arthur Perkins, lived in a house on Gillett Street that no longer exists (and I don’t know of any picture of it).
New Video: Hartford Mansions of the Perkins Dynasty of Lawyers