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Hartford / State Armory

Hartford State Armory, aka Connecticut State Armory, aka Governor William A. O’Neill State Armory, is headquarters of the state militia. It was built with a great deal of cast concrete which deteriorated and was replaced with carved limestone in the 1990s. (See National Register of Historic Places registration form for more detail). Name:  Connecticut State

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Hartford / Municipal Building

The Hartford Municipal Building is the city’s third City Hall, after outgrowing two previous homes. The land was donated by financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Name:  Hartford Municipal Building, City Hall Location:  550 Main Street Year Completed: 1915  Architect: Davis & Brooks, Palmer & Hornbostel  Style: Beaux Arts  Wikipedia: Municipal Building  Google Map All images copyright

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Hartford / Goodwin Hotel

Goodwin Hotel, originally Goodwin Apartments, was built at the corner of Asylum and Haynes Streets in 1881. It was expanded in 1891 and again in 1900; the Goodwin Square Tower was added in 1989, as the apartments were converted to a hotel. Name: Goodwin Apartments, Goodwin Hotel, Goodwin Square Tower  Location:  1 Haynes Street Year

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Hartford / Gold Building

Gold Building, Hartford CT; aka 755 Main Street, One Financial Plaza, converted to residential use in 2014. Building has a microgrid – 336 solar panels on roof, plus a 400 kilowatt fuel cell. Name: Gold Building, One Financial Plaza  Location:   755 Main Street Year Completed: 1967  Architect: Welton Becket  Style:  Postmodern Wikipedia: 777 Main Street

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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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Hartford / Colt Armory

Colt Firearms Factory, on Van Dyke Avenue, with its distinctive gold star-spangled blue onion dome. Name: Colt Armory, Colt Factory  Location: 60-78 Van Dyke Avenue  Year Completed: 1855  Architect: General William B. Franklin  Wikipedia: Colt Armory  Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken October 2020 with Canon 5D Mark iv

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Hartford / City Place

City Place (1980) is Connecticut’s tallest building – just two meters taller than Travelers Tower (1919). Name: City Place  Location: 185 Asylum Street  Year Completed: 1980  Architect:  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Style: Postmodern  Wikipedia: City Place I  Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken October 2020 with Canon 5D Mark iv

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Hartford / Christ Church

The Gothic Revival Christ Church is quite a contrast with the monolithic Stilts Building just across Church Street. Name:  Christ Church Location: 45 Church Street, 955 Main Street  Year Completed: 1827  Architect:  Ithiel Town Style: Gothic Revival  Wikipedia: Christ Church Cathedral (Hartford, Connecticut)  Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken October

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Hartford / Charter Oak Cultural Center

A former synagogue, Temple Beth Israel, converted to civic use. Dramatic architectural details in a low-rise building. Name:  Charter Oak Cultural Center Location: 21 Charter Oak Avenue  Year Completed: 1875  Architect:  George Keller Style: High Victorian Romanesque  Wikipedia: Temple Beth Israel (Hartford, Connecticut)  Google Map All images copyright © Kenneth Grant / photos taken October

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