Plimpton Manufacturing Company purchased property on Pearl Street

The agent handling this transaction worked for A. B. Pitkin’s agency.

1. The Brinley property occupied a t-shaped property in the middle of the block bounded Asylum Street (north), Trumbull Street (east), Pearl Street (south), and Ford Street (west).
2. The Steam Heating Company was probably the Hartford Steam Company. Their factory occupied the interior part of the Brinley property – in 1885.  It wasn’t there in 1880, according to the atlases I have access to.
3. “Next east” of the Hartford Steam Company, there was an existing building in the interior of the block in 1880, and that building was still there in 1885. This building was behind buildings with addresses 248-254 Pearl Street.
4. If I have guessed the correct location for Plimpton’s purchase, then today the site would be City Place I. If I haven’t, then it would be on the other side of Ann Uccello Street, under the old industrial building that now serves as a parking garage.

The purchase price today would be $707,020.

Unattributed.  “News and notions,” Hartford Daily Courant, January 24, 1882, page 2.