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The High Victorian Gothic-style George H. Seyms House, on Collins Street in Hartford, is attributed to the architect George Keller. George H. Seyms (1849-1915) was Chemist of the Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance and Inspection Company. The house was damaged by fire in December of 2002.

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George H. Seyms House (1880)
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  • February 8, 2011 at 5:23 pm
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    George Seyms was a relative. I beleave he was the father of my grand father(Robert).Anyway, I am planing a trip to the East coast and will be travling in Main and New Hamsure this June. Are there tures of the house? Time permiting I would be interusted in a ture if permited.
    Bob Seyms

  • February 9, 2011 at 2:57 am
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    It’s a private home, not open to the public.

  • February 11, 2018 at 8:10 pm
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    Though David Ransom attributed this house to Keller, contemporary newspaper accounts show William Brocklesby as its architect.

  • April 14, 2018 at 5:37 pm
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    Darrin, I am the owner of 181 Collins St. And wonder which newspaper states that William Brocklesby was the architect who designed this house. Thank you.

  • May 11, 2018 at 12:24 am
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    Juan,

    “Correspondence,” American Architect and Building News vol. 9, no. 264 (Jan 15, 1881): p. 31.

    This article describes two houses by Brocklesby — The J.H. Root house on Washington Street and the G. H. Seyms house on Collins Street.

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