New Video on Hartford’s Old East Side: Market Street (west side between State Street and Talcott Street)

This video is about buildings and businesses that have existed on the west side of Market Street, between State Street and Talcott Street in Hartford, Connecticut. This area, including the adjacent Kinsley and Temple Streets, was once the location of A. Squires & Son Grocery store, Blodgett & Clapp iron merchants, the D’Esopo Bank, the original home of the Hartford Stage, and Hartford’s old Greek Revival-style City Hall, later the site of Police Headquarters. In this vicinity in 1937 a dramatic engineering project moved an 8-story building 125 feet from behind G. Fox & Co. to the rear of Brown-Thomson Co. There is also a former church on Market Street that is the only building there that survives from the nineteenth century.