Places

Places

103 Woodland Street

116 Farmington Avenue

182 Collins Street

230 Garden Street

25 Niles Street

Formerly, residence of James H. Tallman; currently, part of the Niles Street Community Garden

293 Farmington Avenue

Part of the Ellen Case Homestead; land purchased by O'Neil & Swenson, 1909; permits pulled for building, 1910. Includes the current addresses of 289, 295, 297, 299, and 301 Farmington Avenue as well as formerly 7 South Marshall Street.

295 Farmington Avenue

297 Farmington Avenue

299 Farmington Avenue

30 Woodland Street

Formerly, residence of G. Pierrepont Davis; currently, the Regency Towers

301 Farmington Avenue

334 Farmington Avenue

340 Farmington Avenue

37 Huntington Street

39 Woodland Street

49 Woodland Street

61 Woodland Street

63 Spring Street

67 Collins Street

7 South Marshall Street

Part of the building now listed as 293 Farmington Avenue by the Hartford Office of the Tax Assessor, it was the residence on the southeast corner of the building, and the only entrance on South Marshall Street. Currently, it is described the assessor as 289 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

839-841 Asylum Avenue

Two-family Italianate, occasionally owned by separate occupants; most recently a single office space for Catholic Charities.

847 Asylum Avenue

Probably built ca. 1862, architect and builder unknown; substantial additions made by Linus Plimpton, 1884-1885, John C. Mead architect; later renovations to interior to convert house to rooming house, 1950; additional renovations to convert house to home for the aged, 1954; historic renovation to convert house to supportive housing shelter by South Park Inn, William Crosskey II architect, 1991-1996; historic rehabilitation by NINA, Michael Weissbrod architect, 2023-2025. Currently owner-occupied three-family home.

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

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 Life Insurance Insurance Company

140 Garden Street: Benjamin Wistar Morris, Jr., architect; Henry C. Irons Company, builder. Land purchased, 1925-1926; construction, 1925-1926; first addition, 1932; South Wing constructed, 1940; underground vault installed, 1952; North Wing constructed, 1958; company taken over by MassMutual Financial Group, 1996; building subsequently purchased by and selectively demolished by The Hartford.

Garden Street Reservoir

Constructed around the mid-19th c. on land that was part of the campus of the American School for the Deaf; remained in use until the early 20th c., at which point it was sold to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company

George Bolles House

852 Asylum Avenue

Goodwin Castle

Built 1872-1873 by James Goodwin at a cost of $400,000

Grace Lutheran Church

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Hartford Theological Seminary

Henry Green House

Home to Henry Green and his family; constructed wooden laboratory at rear of property, May 1896.

Immanuel Congregational Church

Jones-Plimpton House

Katharine Seymour Day House

Mark Twain House

National Fire Insurance Company

Niles Street Community Garden

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.

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

Originally the site of the home of Francis R. Cooley, whose father, Francis B. Cooley, was one of the richest men in Hartford. In November 1960, the Hartford Zoning Board of Appeals approved construction of The Woodland, which opened in 1963,

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.

Veeder-Root