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.
George H. Seyms House (1880)
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
It’s a private home, not open to the public.
Though David Ransom attributed this house to Keller, contemporary newspaper accounts show William Brocklesby as its architect.
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.
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.