This video is about a section of Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut that is now occupied by the building at 740 Main Street that was erected by Travelers Insurance in 1956. At the time of the Revolution, the businesses of female merchant Margaret Chenevard and bookseller and apothecary Hezekiah Merrill were located here. In the early nineteenth century, property here was owned by Oliver Ellsworth. A building erected at the corner of (the now lost) Grove Street in 1856 served as a post office and for over a half century was occupied by the Hartford Times newspaper.
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