Farmington Canal, Plainville, Connecticut:(A special edition blue historical marker) Farmington Canal (1828-1848) The “Long Level” section was the single most important factor in growth of…
Weston UlbrichMarch 11, 2024
Silas Webster Robbins House, Wethersfield, Connecticut: The Silas W. Robbins House on Broad Street is a cornerstone of Wethersfield's Historic District. This French Second Empire…
Weston UlbrichDecember 21, 2023
1. Judah Woodruff House - 37 Mountain Spring Road, Farmington This grand estate, also known as The Cedars, traces back to at least 1760. An…
Weston UlbrichNovember 6, 2023
Aerial view of Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, 1892. 1886 State Capitol & Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, 1895. 1905 (c.) 1910 (c.) 2018 Soldiers…
Weston UlbrichOctober 16, 2023
Castle Largo, Bristol, Connecticut: At the corner of Main and Center Street in the Bristol neighborhood of Federal Hill is a brick castle was built…
Weston UlbrichOctober 16, 2023
Noah Webster House, West Hartford, Connecticut: At 227 South Main Street is the birthplace of American lexicographer Noah Webster (1758-1853). The two and a half…
Weston UlbrichSeptember 5, 2023
Judah Woodruff House, Farmington, Connecticut: This grand estate, also known as The Cedars, traces back to at least 1760. An virtuoso architect named Judah Woodruff constructed…
Weston UlbrichAugust 31, 2023
Captain Daniel Francis House, Wethersfield, Connecticut: Erected in 1803 on Main Street by master builder James Francis (1767- 1852) of Wethersfield for his cousin Daniel…
Weston UlbrichAugust 24, 2023
Ashmead-Colt House, Hartford, Connecticut: On Wethersfield Avenue stands an Italianate mansion built in 1859 for James Ashmead (across the street from Samuel Colt’s Armsmear). Ashmead…
Weston UlbrichAugust 14, 2023
Captain Thomas Allyn House, Windsor, Connecticut: In 1651, an English settler named Thomas Allyn accidentally shot his neighbor, Henry Stiles, to death. Allyn was indicted…
Weston UlbrichAugust 10, 2023
1839 Boulevard, West Hartford, Connecticut: This brick and house clapboard house was built in 1926. Last purchased in 1986 for $147,000, It’s 2,399 square…
Weston UlbrichAugust 9, 2023
Connecticut State Capitol, Hartford, Connecticut: “Overlooking Hartford's 41-acre Bushnell Memorial Park, the Connecticut State Capitol first opened for the General Assembly in January, 1879. Constructed of…
Weston UlbrichAugust 7, 2023
Henry Laurens Kellogg House, Newington, Connecticut: In 1875, this Italianate abode was built on Willard Avenue for an entrepreneur named Henry Laurens Kellogg. He owned…
Weston UlbrichJuly 5, 2023
Tower House, Berlin, Connecticut: At 926-940 Farmington Avenue in the Kensington section of Berlin is an abnormal building built circa 1875. It was erected by…
Weston UlbrichApril 15, 2023
Maps of Connecticut: Bristol The City of Bristol is located in Hartford County, and its boundaries include the neighborhoods of Federal Hill, Chippens Hill,…
Weston UlbrichApril 15, 2023
Stoddard House, Newington, Connecticut: This abandoned house was first built in 1844. The Italianate home at 43 Chapman Street was once the home of the…
Weston UlbrichMarch 15, 2023
95 Van Buren Avenue, West Hartford, Connecticut: Erected in 1930, this modified Colonial Revival mansion features six bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and a…
Weston UlbrichMarch 4, 2023
Huckleberry Hill Bridge, Avon, Connecticut: Built in 1968, this pedestrian covered bridge crosses over the manmade pond and waterfall at Countryside Park.
Weston UlbrichJanuary 30, 2023
627 Pleasant Valley Road, South Windsor, Connecticut: This tiny Colonial style house was built in 1820. It last sold in 2006 for $285,000. View on…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 28, 2023
Asylum Street, Hartford, Connecticut: Flood of 1936. Traffic, 1935. Morning rush, 1923. Majestic Theatre, 1925. Looking East from High Street, 1917. Blizzard, 1888. Horse and…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 27, 2023
Corning Fountain, Hartford, Connecticut: On the Horace Bushnell Promenade, in Bushnell Park is a Beaux-arts style fountain dating back to 1899. It was commissioned by…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 18, 2023
Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, Connecticut: Downtown at 955 Main Street is an old Episcopal church built around 1820. It was designed by Ithiel Town as…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 15, 2023
Charles Dudley Warner, Hartford, Connecticut: In Hartford’s Nook Farm neighborhood once stood the residence of famed author, Charles Dudley Warner. He was a travel writer,…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 2, 2023
38 Garfield Road, West Hartford, Connecticut: This Tudor-stylized Colonial home was built in 1929. The four bedroom house was last sold in 1988 for $260,000.…
Weston UlbrichDecember 29, 2022
Hotel Bond, Hartford, Connecticut: Hotel Bond on Asylum Street was once Hartford’s most luxurious establishment. It was built in two stages in 1913 and 1921…
Weston UlbrichDecember 23, 2022
Avon, Connecticut: One of the worst derailments in Avon's history occurred on August 2, 1918. At about 3:30 PM a northbound freight train wrecked on…
Weston UlbrichDecember 22, 2022
Municipal Building (City Hall), Hartford, Connecticut: At 550 Main Street is Connecticut’s most ornate Beaux-Arts building ever made for local government. Land for the Municipal…
Weston UlbrichDecember 19, 2022
Francis Hanmer Jr. House, Wethersfield, Connecticut: At 496 Main Street is a classic New England home erected in 1765. The first owner, Francis Hanmer Jr.…
Weston UlbrichDecember 17, 2022
The Gold Building, Hartford, Connecticut: Built in 1975, Hartford’s iconic One Financial Plaza is also known as The Gold Building. It's an architectural expression of…
Weston UlbrichNovember 23, 2022
E.G. Robbins House, Wethersfield, Connecticut: At 161 Main Street is “The Charles” a fine dining restaurant set in a historic home of Old Wethersfield. The…
Weston UlbrichOctober 31, 2022
Mary Borden Munsill House, Hartford, Connecticut: At the corner of Wethersfield Avenue and Wyllys Street is a Gilded Age mansion built in 1893. The home…
Weston UlbrichAugust 26, 2022
Catlin House, West Hartford, Connecticut: At 1110 Farmington Avenue is a Dutch Colonial Revival mansion that last sold in 2001 for $535,000. The home was…
Weston UlbrichMarch 6, 2022
Timothy Boardman House, Berlin, Connecticut: A tailor named Timothy Boardman owned this federal house constructed circa 1790. Boardman employed a number of young men and…
Weston UlbrichFebruary 27, 2022
The Ledges, Berlin, Connecticut: This oversized Colonial Revival at 845 Worthington Ridge was built in 1930 for George E. Prentice. An immigrant from England, Prentice…
Weston UlbrichFebruary 26, 2022
Newington, Connecticut: "1636 - Newington valley used by Wethersfield settlers as a source for pipe staves, building materials and pasture lands. Pipestave Swamp, Cow Plain…
Weston UlbrichFebruary 18, 2022
Recently, I have stumbled upon a collection of postcards depicting Hartford, Connecticut. They date from the turn of the 20th century into the 1960's. Some…
Weston UlbrichFebruary 18, 2022
20 Church Street, Hartford, Connecticut: “This downtown Hartford skyscraper, built in 1981 by Olympia & York, is an award-winning Connecticut landmark. With its distinctive…
Weston UlbrichFebruary 2, 2022
Travelers Tower, Hartford, Connecticut: The Travelers Insurance Company was founded by Hartford’s masonry magnate, James Goodwin Batterson in 1863 as the first casualty insurance…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 20, 2022
Collinsville, Connecticut: In 1826, a group led by Samuel Watkinson Collins and his brother David, purchased a sawmill and gristmill property along the Farmington River…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 17, 2022
Cheney Building, Hartford, Connecticut: This Main Street mainstay was built in 1876. It was the masterpiece of Henry Hobson Richardson, known for his own…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 12, 2022
989 Neipsic Road, Glastonbury, Connecticut: This brick colonial was built in 1773. The property is on 1.6 acres bordering J.B. Williams Park and Gideon Welles…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 9, 2022
Barns of Glastonbury, Connecticut: The Town of Glastonbury has been a farming community since 1693. There are about 30 recognized farms within the borders of…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 8, 2022
Robert Robbins House, Wethersfield, Connecticut: This federal style home at 132 Broad Street is the Robert Robbins House. The red brick, two-story dwelling was designed…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 6, 2022
Buttolph-Williams House, Wethersfield, Connecticut: Construction began on this vintage colonial in 1711 and finished by 1714. Originally thought to have been constructed by David Buttolph,…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 4, 2022
Bigelow Hollow State Park, Union, Connecticut: Bigelow Hollow State Park is located in the town of Union, and along with Nipmuck State Forest, the lands…
Weston UlbrichDecember 30, 2021
Rich Kirby | Patch | December 26, 2021 The biggest trend in real estate is going small. So-called "tiny houses" are suddenly huge, as more…
Weston UlbrichDecember 26, 2021
Hartford Times Building, Hartford, Connecticut: First constructed in 1920, this historic Beaux-Arts gem at 10 Prospect Street was the headquarters of the now defunct Hartford…
Weston UlbrichDecember 19, 2021
City Place I, Hartford, Connecticut: A commercial office building now stands on the site of John Pierpont Morgan’s birthplace. J.P. Morgan was an American banking…
Weston UlbrichNovember 27, 2021
Olympia Diner, Newington, Connecticut: In 1954, the Olympia Diner on the Berlin Turnpike was established by the Jerry O’Mahony Diner Company, of New Jersey. The…
Weston UlbrichSeptember 23, 2021
Salvation Army Citadel, Manchester, Connecticut: At 661 Main Street the Salvation Army constructed a Military Gothic-style Corps (intended as a church) known as the Citadel.…
Weston UlbrichMay 12, 2021
Hartford Electric Light Company, Hartford, Connecticut: The Hartford Electric Light Company began operations with a steam-powered electrical generating plant at 266 Pearl Street on April…
Weston UlbrichJanuary 19, 2021
