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293 Farmington Avenue
293 Farmington Avenue
334 Farmington Avenue
A Elijah Hart House
Aetna
Aetna Diner
American School for the Deaf
Asylum Avenue Baptist Church
868 Asylum Avenue: built 1871-1872, architect George Keller, based on design of Holy Trinity Church [New York City] by Jacob Wrey Mould; expanded 1896, Melvin Hapgood, architect; destroyed by fire, 1931; rebuilt 1931, architect Ebbets & Frid, builder R. G. Bent Company.
Asylum Hill Congregational Church
814 Asylum Avenue: Built 1864-1866, architect Patrick C. Keely, builder Samuel Coit; chapel (now Drew Hall) opened 1864; church dedicated 1866; bell installed 1871; tower and spire constructed 1875; clock installed 1897; parish house added 1903-1904; Gross Memorial Chapel and expansion of parish house added 1939-1940; second extension of parish house added 1990; third extension of parish house added 2004.
Asylum Hill Nursery
ca. 1850-1880
Cathedral of Saint Joseph
140 Farmington Avenue: “the Second Cathedral,” built 1958-1962; architect Eggers and Higgins.
Catholic Apostolic Church
Childhood home of Katharine Hepburn
Connecticut Mutual Insurance Building
Garden Street Reservoir
George Bolles House
852 Asylum Avenue
Grace Lutheran Church
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Hartford Theological Seminary
Henry Green House
Immanuel Congregational Church
Jones-Plimpton House
Katharine Seymour Day House
Mark Twain House
Niles Street Community Garden
The Hartford
690 Asylum Avenue: Built 1920-1921, architects E. S. Dodge and Baker, Thomas & Rice, general contractor Marc Eidlitz and Son, landscape design Sheffield A. Arnold; Hollis French and Allen Hubbard, mechanical engineers; occupied November 1921.
The Woodland
Town and County Club
Trinity Episcopal Church
120 Sigourney Street: built 1898; tower completed 1912; parish house built 1881; Goodwin Hall built 1892; Education Wing built 1962.
103 Woodland Street
230 Garden Street
295 Farmington Avenue
297 Farmington Avenue
299 Farmington Avenue
301 Farmington Avenue
37 Huntington Street
39 Woodland Street
49 Woodland Street
61 Woodland Street
63 Spring Street
7 South Marshall Street
The Linus Plimpton House
847 Asylum Avenue: probably built ca. 1862, substantial additions made by Linus Plimpton, 1884-1885, with John C. Mead as architect; single-family home through 1940s; senior living facility through 1988; group home managed by South Park Inn, 1990-2020
Goodwin Castle
Built 1872-1873 by James Goodwin at a cost of $400,000
National Fire Insurance Company
Seymour-Clark House
Lot 26 of the Old Town Farm: purchased by Dudley S. Seymour, 10/1888; petitioned to build house, 5/1889; garage built, 1914-1915; fire escape installed, 1941; addition to first floor, 1946; fire escape removed, 1980s.
Veeder-Root
