New Video: History of Hartford’s Ann Uccello Street before Construction of the Civic Center

This video is about what Ann Uccello Street in Hartford was like before the Civic Center was built. It covers the section between Asylum Street and the highway. On the west side, the Morse School building, the Russian Lady building, the former Masonic Temple, the old Hartford Wire Works building (now home to Agave and Aladdin restaurants) and St. Patrick – St. Anthony Church survive, but the old Foster/Weldon Block and St. Patrick – St. Anthony School are lost. On the east side of Ann Street, where the Civic Center stands today, there were once many old buildings, including Engine Company No. 4, home of the “Pride of Hartford,” and a Y.W.C.A. building. Just to the north was the lost Hotel Hartford.