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History with Dan Sterner
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I'm the author of two books about historic Hartford, Connecticut
Websites:
Historic Buildings of Connecticut (historicbuildingsct.com)
Historic Buildings of Massachusetts (historicbuildingsmass.com)
DanielSterner.com
Websites:
Historic Buildings of Connecticut (historicbuildingsct.com)
Historic Buildings of Massachusetts (historicbuildingsmass.com)
DanielSterner.com
Hartford's Fifth Avenue: The History and Buildings of Pratt Street, Hartford CT
Pratt Street was once called Hartford's Fifth Avenue because of the many specialty stores that lines this short block. In this video I talk about the history of the street, from its early days as a residential block, through its period of commercial development. I talk about such landmarks as Society for Savings, the now lost Hartford Female Seminary, the reconstructed Spencer House and the many commercial buildings that line the street, built between the 1880s and 1920s. I also mention the development projects that have transformed the street over the years, particularly in the late 1980s.
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Hartford, CT's Union Station and Auditorium Building Fires, February, 1914
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During one week in February of 1914, the City of Hartford, Connecticut experienced two devastating fires that gutted Union Station (February 21) and the Auditorium Building (originally called Allyn Hall). Union Station was rebuilt using the same brownstone walls, while the Auditorium was replaced by another theater. #fire #burning #hartfordct #hartfordct #trainstation #trainstations #disaster #...
Bear in my Backyard Leaves a Present
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I was sitting on my screened-in porch out back when I felt a big thump. I thought, "is there an earthquake?" A few minutes later a BEAR came out from under the porch. He must have spent the night there and like a lot of us, he relieved himself after he woke up! I shouted at him and he ignored me. Eventually he wandered off. I didn't notice the neighbor was walking around his yard at the time un...
Asylum Street, Hartford CT Before the XL Center (Frank's, E. M. Loew's, Allyn Theater)
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This video is about old days in Hartford, Connecticut when Frank's Restaurant, the Majestic/E. M. Loews Theater, the Allyn Theater and the Allyn House Hotel stood on the block of Asylum Street between Trumbull Street and Ann Street that's now the south side of the XL Center and Hartford 21 Building. This block is also where the house of Rev. T. C. Brownell, Episcopal Bishop and founder of Trini...
What is the Architectural Style of the Twain House in Hartford, CT
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Steamboat Gothic? Picturesque? High Victorian? Stick? Just what is the architectural style of the Mark Twain House? #marktwain #architecture #gothicarchitecture #hartford #hartfordct #hartfordconnecticut #oldbuildings #19thcentury #history #newenglandhistory #historicbuildings #connecticut Subscribe to the channel: / @historywithdansterner263 Check out my website: historicbuildingsct.com Buy me...
Old Hartford CT Riverfront - Lost Buildings at Commerce and Ferry Streets
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Photographs taken in the first decade of the 20th century provide a view of buildings that stood near Hartford, CT's riverfront in its great days as a river port. In this video you will learn about the development of Ferry Street and the old days of Hartford's trade with the West Indies. Also the first bridge across the Connecticut River here, built in 1809, and some of the people who lived and...
Long Lost Traces of Hartford's Old Riverfront
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Hartford, Connecticut's riverfront has gone through many changes over the years. Long before the highway came through, the Valley Railroad was built in 1871 through the warehouse district by the river. A number of old warehouses and fish markets, documented in photographs in the 1860s and 1870s, were demolished around this time. I talk about them in this video, as well as a sycamore tree that s...
Lost GRANDeur - Hartford's Grand/New Parsons Theater, 1914-1961
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This Video is a history of the former Grand (later New Parsons) Theater in Hartford, Connecticut. When the building, located on Main Street, was demolished in 1961, it had been in existence for nearly half a century. The city's Fourth Congregational Church had previously stood on the same spot from 1850 to 1913. The Grand opened in 1914 and showed burlesque theater and movies. The name of the t...
Historical Tour of Wethersfield CT Main Street from Church Street to Hanmer Park
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In this video I talk about the historic buildings on Main Street in Wethersfield, Connecticut from the intersection with Church Street north to Hanmer Park. I cover the Greek Revival-style John Williams House, the former home and office of Dr. Erastus Cooke, the former church that's now Griffith Academy, the former Masonic Hall, the Simeon Belden House, Comstock, Ferre & Co., the Rev. James Loc...
Some Great Buildings in Old Wethersfield, CT
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In this video I take you on a tour of the section of the Old Wethersfield, CT Historic District on Main Street south of the Keeney Center and a bit eastwards on Garden Street. I talk about the Old Academy, the 1898 Grange Hall, Temple Beth Torah, the former Sacred Heart Catholic Church and several historic houses/taverns. #wethersfield #connecticut #historicbuildings #historicplaces #historicdi...
A Tour of the Center of Old Wethersfield, CT
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In this video I cover the historic area around the intersection of Main, Marsh and Church Streets in Wethersfield, CT. Highlights include the 1761 First Church, the Deming-Standish House, the Hurlbut-Dunham House, the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum and the Keeney Memorial Cultural Center. #Wethersfield #WethersfieldCT #connecticut #historicbuildings #housemuseum #oldbuildings #revolutionarywar #newe...
Mark Twain's Hartford CT Neighborhood: Nook Farm
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Mark Twain's Hartford CT Neighborhood: Nook Farm
Hartford CT's Lost Needham's Corner, Main Street Before the Highway
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Hartford CT's Lost Needham's Corner, Main Street Before the Highway
Lost Hartford CT: Intersection of Main and Morgan Streets Before the Highway
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Lost Hartford CT: Intersection of Main and Morgan Streets Before the Highway
Main Street, Hartford, Before the Pennant at North Crossing
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Main Street, Hartford, Before the Pennant at North Crossing
Main Street, Hartford 100 Years Before Dunkin' Park
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Main Street, Hartford 100 Years Before Dunkin' Park
Early Buildings of Saint Francis Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut
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Early Buildings of Saint Francis Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut
Victorian Houses of Charter Oak Place, Hartford Conn.
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Victorian Houses of Charter Oak Place, Hartford Conn.
Hartford CT's Forgotten Movie Theater: the Empire
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Hartford CT's Forgotten Movie Theater: the Empire
Lost Movie Theaters of Hartford, CT
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Lost Movie Theaters of Hartford, CT
History of Dutch Point Part Three: The Power Plant
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History of Dutch Point Part Three: The Power Plant
History of Dutch Point Part Two: Connecticut River Log Drives
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History of Dutch Point Part Two: Connecticut River Log Drives
History of Dutch Point Part One: House of Hope & Shipbuilding
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History of Dutch Point Part One: House of Hope & Shipbuilding
The 10 Youngest Towns in Connecticut
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The 10 Youngest Towns in Connecticut
Where was Connecticut's Charter Oak located?
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Where was Connecticut's Charter Oak located?
Hartford, Connecticut's Lost Governor Street
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Hartford, Connecticut's Lost Governor Street
A Visit to the Connecticut Trolley Museum
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A Visit to the Connecticut Trolley Museum
Vanished Asylum Street, Hartford, CT
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Vanished Asylum Street, Hartford, CT
Hartford's Isle of Safety (Hartford CT)
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Hartford's Isle of Safety (Hartford CT)
Lost Buildings of Asylum Street, HARTFORD CT (64-110 Asylum St)
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Lost Buildings of Asylum Street, HARTFORD CT (64-110 Asylum St)
I’m surprised there’s no Beecher Street in Hartford
Pratt St! The best!
Wow... I'll be back to watch this
I was really enjoying this until I saw that ugly brick apartment building built on top of the location.
Keep up the good work
Thanks!
damn, the 60's is when Hartford died.
Was there also a Grants just north in Windsor at the Windsor Shopping Center?
Looking into it, I found an article about a W. T. Grant store opening in the Windsor Shopping Center in 1964. It was described as the largest Grant's in Connecticut and the largest on one floor in New England.
@historywithdansterner263 that's where, when I was about 5 years old, my mom bought me a pair of new sneakers. I remember there were about 50 or so pairs scrunched up against the window of the store advertising for about 2 or 3 dollars a pair! They king of looked like Addidas, but they weren't! Lol
Walked by all that in Hartford Ct. to many times to count!
Excellent series of videos
Thank you for watching!
The only nice street left in Hartford.
What a monstrosity that stiltz building is.
It’s amazing that anything is left in Hartford . The neighborhoods are in ruin and most of any beautiful grand commercial buildings are gone.
Whe u first saw the Barber house I was stunned. It's so beautiful and I could see it was absolutely something special. I'm so glad to finally know that my instincts were correct. I even stopped and snapped some pictures of it.
I did watch all of it and previous video
Thanks!
Until August 1975, I lived on Charter Oak Avenue, across from Capewell Manufacturing, not so far from Richard J. Kinsella school, Colt Park, The Polish Home, The Church of the Good Shepard etc. I can't believe it took me until now, 2024, to learn this info!😂 Thank you!❤ (Please forgive me if I didn't use the right names... I was just a kid and only knew the names my parents called these places😊)
I glad you enjoyed my video and found it informative! 😀
Hi Dan! I really enjoy your videos, especially since no one really talks about the history of Hartford. One question though, after researching all these great buildings now lost to history, is Hartford better off not or would Hartford be better off still having some of these great buildings still around? Also, what was at the site of the Hartford Hilton hotel before it was torn down for a World Trade Center that never materializedid and is now a parking lot?
I know that every building couldn't be saved, but there are certain landmarks, like the Y.M.C.A. Building, for instance, that complemented the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch and should have been preserved. This is especially true when the demolished structures were replaced by parking lots. The city would also have benefitted by having more surviving examples of its early architecture, like the lost Barnabas Deane House and many others, as well as Victorian era houses like the Goodwin Castle. If more unbroken stretches of 19th-century commercial buildings had survived they would give more of a sense of how much of downtown once appeared. I touch upon part of the area of the old Hilton Hotel at the end of this video: ruclips.net/video/tSPe8cchW88/видео.htmlsi=UYs156_bae_4yLvY
All these were destroyed for Constitution Plaza. Yes for years we enjoyed its beauty. But now it isn’t even lite up for Christmas. The fireworks are gone for 4th of July. No one is enjoying the river front because money is going elsewhere
Hi Dan, love your videos. Have you ever considered doing a video on the Regional Market? I was born in Hartford at the old McCook hospital circa 1959.
I've thought about that. I assume you mean the one that was near the foot of Morgan Street.
Is on reserve rd in the south meadows I believe it's called.
These are very bitter sweet videos. The loss of one of Americas oldest once wealthy cities to an office park surrounded by ghettos. In one of the wealthiest states aside from New Haven all our big cities are a mess of decay lost architecture , intrusive highways and ugly modern crap. At least New Haven with its intrusive highways and swaths of lost buildings have beautiful commercial blocks. Wealthy neighborhoods with blocks of mansions, Yale University and surviving Victorian neighborhoods even with all the plastic siding.
One missing - Cinema City - the four screen theater near the airport. Newer than some of Hartford's theaters, it struggled on past the millennium before being demolished. Known for showing independent and foreign films, it provided a change from other theaters' offerings.
I went there many times!
It would have been nice if a sentence or two was included to describe how they were assembled for the display and then disassembled for storage the rest of the year. How long did it take to set up the display? Where are the parts of the display today.
I would have to ask the Wethersfield company that fabricated the buildings.
Excellent!
Excellent! Amazing that you could find all those old photographs to tell the story properly.
Thanks for another excellent pictorial essay on Hartford's lost architectural golden era.
Thanks for watching!
Great history lesson about the many changes and expansions of Hartford Hospital. Well done.
I was a direct ancestor, Richard Webb I, who was one of eight founders of Hartford, CT.
Great video Dan!
Thanks!
Excellent video once again.
Thanks!
This was a lot of work! Thank you.
Great video Dan. Do you know if that's the same F.D. water tower that now lives at the Ct. Firefighters Historical Society in Manchester? I'd love to see you do videos on some of Hartford's other famous fires, like the Circus Fire and the Hartford Hospital fire.
The taxpayers of Hartford paid to build both the Yard Goat baseball field and the Hartford Civic Center and its a dishonor to them to exclusively refer to those places with a commercial name. When these places need maintenance, who pays for it? The commercial sponsors will just pull out and not give a damn when the places make them look bad. If these guys want to pay to advertise at the taxpayers expense insist they refer to the places as The Yard Goat stadium sponsored by Dunkin or The Hartford Civic Center sponsored by XL. We should not let big business take credit for the sacrifices and hard work our community put into having these facilities. Truly the taxpayers should be insulted not to be acknowledged for the existance of their creations.
There you have it folks. Mystery solved.
Love hearing about the history of Hartford. It seemed like it used to be a great city.
Thanks much for this!
Remember the grand plan for the Skywalker, whatever happened to that?
I don't know. :(
We humans sure as so stupid. They ruined hartford to add highways, thinking it would make city better. Hartford is one of worst cities on America. It's a joke. laughing stoke. The entire city is designed so bad. I hate Hartford with so much passion. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about Hartford. Oh and remember "Hartford new England rising star" slogan, those employees that created they should be in jail or that insanity lie.
26:50 Windsor Ave is now Main Street, Fire House is still there.
Is there a corner of Trumbull and Ann… 🤔
Actually no...
@@historywithdansterner263 I think that's what you said at the beginning of the video, I'll double check
Yes, that’s what you said… I just double checked, 30 seconds in
@@junkandthangs ooops. Too bad I can't just edit it like a blog post.
@@historywithdansterner263it's all good, when you give directions and stuff I be trying to picture the location so I pay close attention to the street names and coordinates
Always look forward to your videos...thanks
Thank you!
I work right thre by the river, and have viewes of highway and river every day .its enraging what htey did...so ugly. Your 4:05 clip, imagine if that was still hartford today, no highways and shops and apartments righ ton the river..hearing the highway all day and ruining the river experience is f*** BS.