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329 Hazard Avenue, Enfield (1878)
According to the nomination for the Hazardville Historic District, the house at 329 Hazard Avenue is a transitional Italianate/Second Empire style structure built in 1865. According to the house’s property listing with the Town of Enfield and real estate listings it was built in 1878.
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John Killbourne House (1740)
The house at 120 High Street in South Glastonbury is listed as 118 High Street in the 1978 Historical and Architectural Survey of Glastonbury, where it is described as the John Killbourne House, built in 1740. A plaque on the house reads “Spar Mill, Est. 1740.” Feldspar was quarried in the area in the early twentieth century and the nearby house at 9 Tryon Street is believed to have once been the mill’s office.
Miscellaneous Buildings, Part Six
Miscellaneous Buildings, Part Five
New Video: Hartford’s Lost Castle
This video is about the James Goodwin House, also known as Woodlands and the Goodwin Castle. Built in 1871, it stood near the intersection of Asylum Avenue and Woodland Street in Hartford. Once the largest private home in the state, it was torn down in 1940.
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