Elm Street Historic District

Hartford / Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. Building

Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company building of 1920, designed by NY architect Benjamin Morris. Now used by Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP). (Not to be confused with Phoenix Mutual’s modern headquarters, known as the “Boat Building” for its unusual shape.) Name: Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, Department of Energy and Environmental […]

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Hartford / First Presbyterian Church

One of the architects – James Renwick, Jr. – also designed New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Washington, D.C.’s Smithsonian Institution Building. Name: First Presbyterian Church  Location: 136 Capitol Avenue  Year Completed: 1870  Architect:  Renwick & Sands Style:  High Victorian Romanesque Historic Buildings of Connecticut: First Presbyterian Church, Hartford  Google Map All images copyright

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