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Asylum Hill Tours
Forgotten Asylum Hill
Gospels in Stone: The Churches on the Hill
WTF, or What the Frank
Chronicle
1995-10-14 Twichell and Twain Walk
1985-10-06 Asylum Hill Congregational Church
1981-01-04 Asylum Hill Congregational Church
1973-12-15 Asylum Hill Congregational Church
1973-03-21 Bernard Drew
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293 Farmington Avenue
293 Farmington Avenue
334 Farmington Avenue
A Elijah Hart House
Aetna
Aetna Diner
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.
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 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.