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Author: Tomas J. Nenortas Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738537139 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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From workers' housing to the grand homes of industrialists, prosperous Hartford experienced an explosion of Victorian building that turned this capital city into a rich mixture of culture, beauty, and business. The capital of the insurance industry, Hartford was also home to the first public art museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum; the first municipal rose garden, Elizabeth Park; and colossal factories that produced Colt firearms, typewriters, sewing machines, and even the first automobiles. Victorian Hartford showcases the city's great architecture through historic images, some of which are the only evidence of the city's former grandeur, and provides glimpses into a world long gone.
Author: Tomas J. Nenortas Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738537139 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
From workers' housing to the grand homes of industrialists, prosperous Hartford experienced an explosion of Victorian building that turned this capital city into a rich mixture of culture, beauty, and business. The capital of the insurance industry, Hartford was also home to the first public art museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum; the first municipal rose garden, Elizabeth Park; and colossal factories that produced Colt firearms, typewriters, sewing machines, and even the first automobiles. Victorian Hartford showcases the city's great architecture through historic images, some of which are the only evidence of the city's former grandeur, and provides glimpses into a world long gone.
Author: Tomas J. Nenortas Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738549989 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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The gilded city of Hartford triumphantly returns in this volume, Victorian Hartford Revisited, a compilation of many never before published images of Victorian splendor and incredible architecture. The social, economic, cultural, and architectural center of the state went through unparalleled growth after the Civil War. Demand for new technology made Hartford not only the political capital but the epicenter of the Industrial Revolution in the region. Tremendous wealth accumulated and materialized in the form of extensive estates, historic parks, magnificent schools, churches, public buildings, grand hotels, and a multitude of immigrant housing. This once Colonial port city along the Connecticut River rose to epitomize Americas Victorian age, and it is captured within these impressive pages.
Author: Daniel Sterner Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1614235805 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 213
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Hartford, Connecticut, was settled as an agrarian society with fertile fields and abundant crops at the confluence of the Connecticut and Little (later Park) Rivers by Reverend Thomas Hooker and his Puritan congregation. Navigation on the rivers quickly established the city as a center for commerce. Author Daniel Sterner delves into the history of Hartford with tours from Bushnell Park to Asylum Hill and through Frog Hollow. Discover the many people, places and events that have shaped the capital of the Constitution State.
Author: Daniel Sterner Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1614239339 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 211
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Early nineteenth-century illustrations of Hartford, Connecticut, show church steeples towering over the Victorian homes and brownstone facades of businesses around them. The modern skyline of the town has lost many of these elegant steeples and their quaint and smaller neighbors. Banks have yielded to newer banks, and organizations like the YMCA are now parking lots. In the 1960s, Constitution Plaza replaced an entire neighborhood on Hartford's east side. The city has evolved in the name of progress, allowing treasured buildings to pass into history. Those buildings that survive have been repurposed--the Old State House, built in 1796, is one of the oldest and has found new life as a museum. Yet the memory of these bygone landmarks and scenes has not been lost. Historian Daniel Sterner recalls the lost face of downtown and preserves the historic landmarks that still remain with this nostalgic exploration of Hartford's structural evolution.
Author: Shaun S. Nichols Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197665314 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 385
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Manufacturing Catastrophe tracks the history of industrialization, deindustrialization, and globalization in Massachusetts over the past two centuries. It a history of wrenching economic transformation as told from the perspective of everyday people: European peasants traveling the oceans in search of industrial work, runaway factory owners venturing out in search of cheaper labor abroad, and harried local policymakers trying to recover from repeated bouts of economic cataclysm. For those concerned about the future of American industry in the face of global competition, it provides critical lessons on how some of America's pioneering industrial cities have weathered the tempests of economic upheaval and industrial rebirth.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
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Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Author: Publisher: Fodor ISBN: 1400004535 Category : New England Languages : en Pages : 781
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Describes major tourist attractions in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, providing expanded coverage of Hartford, Boston, and Cape Cod.
Author: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc. Staff Publisher: Fodors Travel Publications ISBN: 1400007216 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 642
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Describes major tourist attractions in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, providing expanded coverage of Hartford, Boston, and Cape Cod
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