Historic Buildings of Connecticut

North of Morgan Street, where I-84 passes under Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut, once stood Rev. Horace Bushnell’s North Congregational Church. It was later Germania Hall and then Herrup’s Furniture store, which burned down in 1932. North of it on Village Street was the Silver Brothers Building. South of Morgan Street, there’s now a parking lot that was once the location of the the Cadden Building (Demolished 1920), the First Baptist Church (demolished 1927), and the 7-story Pilgard Building (demolished in 1965).

This video is about the buildings and some of the businesses that existed on Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut, in the area where the new apartment building called the Pennant at North Crossing stands today, near Dunkin’ Park.

Before Dunkin’ (Donuts) Park was built in Hartford, Connecticut, there was a parking lot and before that a car dealership there. But before that there was a dense row of buildings that included a hotel, as well as wall paper, hardware and furniture stores. Find out about this lost piece of Old Hartford. Also, check out my 1 minute log YouTube short about the Webb House in Wethersfield: https://youtube.com/shorts/KRde3UyBGnc?si=_kkntKyBST93nRS5

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A Guide to Historic Hartford, Connecticut: https://amzn.to/4bNbiAR

Vanished Downtown Hartford: https://amzn.to/3IhK7Ao

This video focuses on the buildings of Saint Francis Hospital that were built before the early 1970s, some of which survive and some of which are lost. These include the old Chinese Education Mission and Saint Thomas Seminary buildings on Collins Street that were later demolished. I also talk about the former National Fire Insurance Company Building on Farmington Avenue that the hospital acquired in the 1970s and the historic Collins and Dunham Houses once stood there. I end by briefly mentioning the hospital’s more recent buildings, including the parking garage currently under construction.

This video gives a brief history of the houses on Charter Oak Place in the city of Hartford, Connecticut. I talk about houses that survive from the nineteenth century as well as a few houses that have been lost.

This video is about an early movie theater in Hartford that existed on Asylum Street from 1912 until 1927. The Empire Theater was a conversion of a former Methodist Church that was built in 1860. Stories in this video include tales from the snow storm of 1915, a boy who fell asleep and was locked in the theater, and the acrimonious end of the Empire.

In this video I talk about 10 lost movie theaters that once existed in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. I also mention several more theaters that existed beyond downtown.