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According to an article in today’s Courant, the “Plympton” Manufacturing Company had purchased the Brinley property on Pearl Street.
The agent handling this transaction worked for A. B. Pitkin’s agency.
At this point, I have no idea as to where, exactly, this property is, despite an 1880 atlas of Hartford that labels a property on Pearl Street, in roughly the right location, as belong to “Geo. Brinley Est.” The main problem is that a March 1882 article in the Courant will describe the Plimpton property as having more than one wood building on it, and the only wood buildings on the north side of this block of Pearl Street are down by Ford Street, well past “Geo. Brinley Est.”
On March 17, 1882, the Courant will report on an effort to grade Pearl Street, and the article will refer to the Plimpton Manufacturing Company’s property.
The purchase price today would be $707,020.
Unattributed. “News and notions,” Hartford Daily Courant, January 24, 1882, page 2.
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