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Wilfred X. Johnson House

The Wilfred X. Johnson House is a historic house at 206 Tower Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1928, it was the home from 1966 until his death the home of Wilfred X. Johnson (1920–1972), the state's first African-American state representative. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Description and history The Wilfred X. Johnson House is located on Hartford's north side, on the north side of Tower Avenue between Barbour and Hampton Streets. The property's rear abuts the city's Keney Park. The house is 2+1⁄2 stories in height, built out of brick with wooden trim. It is covered by a hip roof that is pierced on the front by a shed-roof dormer. Single-story wings extend to either side of the main block. The front facade is three bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a gabled porch with cove ceiling. The entrance is flanked by pilasters that match the posts supporting the porch. The bays on either side of the entrance have tripled sash windows, while the upper floor bays have a 2-1-2 pattern of window grouping. The flanking wings each have tripled sash windows. Some of the windows retain their original diamond-pane sashes. The interior of the house follows a center hall plan. The house was built in 1928, and is a fairly typical example of Colonial Revival architecture built at that time. In 1966 it was purchased by Wilfred and Gertrude Johnson. Wilfred Johnson Wilfred X. Johnson, a native of Georgia, came to Hartford as a child with his parents, and was locally educated. He took a position as a messenger boy at the Hartford National Bank, rising to become the state's first African-American bank teller in 1955. He was active in the local Democratic Party, and won election to the state legislature in 1958, the first African-American to do so. Gertrude Johnson was also active the party, working to achieve racial balance in the city's schools. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut References
Keney Tower

Keney Tower is a memorial tower located in a small public park at Main and Ely Streets North of Downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1898 as a memorial to family members by the locally prominent Keney family, it is a distinctive local example of Collegiate Gothic architecture, and is the city's only free-standing tower. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Description and history Keney Tower is located on the northern fringe of downtown Hartford, from which it is now separated by I-84. It is located in a park 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) in size at the southeast corner of Main and Ely Streets, in an area dominated by traffic and commercial development. The tower stands near the center of the roughly square park. Its base is 30 feet (9.1 m) square, and it rises to a height of 130 feet (40 m). It is built out of ashlar-cut red sandstone quarried in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. Its verticality is heightened by corner buttresses, and pinnacles that rise above its roof to finial crosses. There are clock faces on all four sides, above which are lancet-arched louvers around the chamber housing chiming bells that sound every quarter hour. The tower was built in 1898 on land that belonged at the time to the locally prominent Keney family. Its construction was done by the family under the terms of the will of Henry Keney, who sought to memorialize his wholesale grocery business, H. & W. Keney. The family, however, instead placed a plaque on the tower reading "This tower erected to the memory of my mother is designed to preserve from other occupancy the ground sacred to me as her home and to stand in perpetual honor to the wisdom, goodness and womanly nobility of her to whose guidance I owe my success in life and its chief joy ~ Henry Keney". The tower was designed by New York City architect Charles C. Haight, whose specialty was Collegiate Gothic architecture. The family trust deeded the tower and park to the city in 1924. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut References
First Lutheran Church of the Reformation

The First Lutheran Church of the Reformation is a historic church at 77 Franklin Square in New Britain, Connecticut. The congregation was founded in 1885 and the current church building was constructed 1903-07. The building, a fine local example of Late Gothic Revival architecture, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. Architecture and history The First Lutheran Church of the Reformation stands in downtown New Britain, on the west side of Franklin Square near its northern end. It is a large stone structure, built out of granite and adorned with Gothic features. It is symmetrical, with a pair of square four-stage towers rising to pinnacles on either side of the front facade; the original steeples were removed after one was struck by lightning. The tower corners are buttressed, and the side window bays are articulated by buttresses. Windows are generally lancet-arched in the Gothic style. At the center of the main facade is a large rose window set in a recessed lancet-arched panel. New Britain saw a large influx of immigrants from northern Europe in the second half of the 19th century. Both Germans and Swedes settled in the city in large numbers, bringing their Lutheran faith with them. The First Lutheran Church of the Reformation was formally organized in the 1880s, when its first building was erected. The present building was constructed in 1903-07 to provide space for its rapidly growing congregation. It was designed by William Caldwell, with later additions in the 20th century by Walter Crabtree. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut References External links Church website Church website
Gridley-Parsons-Staples Homestead

The Gridley-Parson-Staples House is a historic house museum at 1554 Farmington Avenue in Farmington, Connecticut. Probably built about 1760, it is the oldest surviving house in northwestern Farmington, and a fine example of 18th century Georgian architecture. It is now home to the Farmington Historical Society, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. Description and history The Gridley-Parson-Staples House is located on the east side of Farmington Avenue (Connecticut Route 4) amid a cluster of municipal buildings, including the town hall, public library, and high school. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, two interior brick chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by a Colonial Revival flat-roof portico supported by Doric columns. Above the entrance is a three-part Palladian style window with narrow side windows; the other windows on the facade are standard 6-over-6 sash. A 1+1⁄2-story ell, possibly of older construction, extends to the rear. The interior of the house follows a center-hall plan, with an unusually wide central hall, and an enclosed stair. The downstairs fireplace surrounds exhibit particularly fine 18th-century carving. The construction date of the house and the rear ell are uncertain, owing to a lack of documentary record and conflicting architectural evidence. Construction of the rear ell is traditionally given as 1732, when Thomas Hurlburt owned this property, but it appears to have been extensively altered around 1760, when the main house was probably built by Elnathan Gridley. A house is documented as appearing here on a 1759 map, and the house was likely near its present form in 1781, when Elnathan Gridley's estate was inventoried. The property associated with the house originally extended all the way down to the Farmington River (across Farmington Avenue). The house underwent a major restoration in 1976, and now houses museum displays and offices of the historical society. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut References External links Farmington Historical Society
Mansuy and Smith Automobile Showroom Building

The Mansuy and Smith Automobile Showroom Building is a historic commercial building at 38-42 Elm Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1900, it is an early example of an automobile showroom, used by a local carriage manufacturer seeking to transition to the new technology. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Description and history The Mansuy and Smith Automobile Showroom Building is located on the North Side of Elm Street, in a block of commercial buildings between Pulaski Circle and Main Street on the west side of downtown Hartford. It is a two-story brick building, joined via party walls to adjacent buildings. Its main facade is divided into three sections: on the ground floor, the right section has a garage bay opening, the left section has a large display window, and the center section has a window and pedestrian entrance. On the second floor, each section has two sash windows with cast stone sills and lintels. A stepped parapet rises above the center section. The history of Mansuy and Smith begins in 1841, when Louis Mansuy began building carriages, and was by the third quarter of the 19th century one of Connecticut's most successful carriage makers. The company first produced a phaeton in 1896 for the Pope Manufacturing Company as a body for an electric car. Mansuy's grandson, also named Louis, partnered in the early 20th century with Thomas Hammond Smith, an early car dealer to engage in the construction and sale of automobiles, and was engaged in the painting of automobiles on these premises as early as 1902. The business venture eventually failed in 1913. The present building appears to be a surviving remnant of a larger manufacturing premises, but with specific alterations to present the merchandise in a more attractive setting. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut References
Myers and Gross Building

The Myers and Gross Building is a historic apartment building at 2 Fraser Place in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1917, it is a well-preserved example of Georgian Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Description and history The Myers and Gross Building is located in Hartford's West Side Asylum Hill Neighborhood, at the Junction Myrtle Street and Fraser Place. It is a three-story masonry structure, built out of yellow brick with stone trim. It has a curved facade, with One Entrance at the Street Corner and a Second further along Fraser Place. The bays housing the entrances are wide, with single-leaf doors flanked by panels inside an opening trimmed with stone pilasters and entablature. Above the entrances are a three-part window on the Second Floor, and a Three-Part Palladian window in the Third Floor. Windows in the other bays are set in groups of one to three, topped by splayed lintels with keystones. The cornice is dentillated and decorated with egg-and-dart moulding. The building was built in 1917, a time when the Asylum Hill neighborhood had ceased to be the city's fashionable upper-class area, and was becoming more middle class and commercial. The building is located close to what were at the time the headquarters of several major insurance companies. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut References
Mystic Museum of Art

Mystic Museum of Art is a museum of American art at 9 Water Street in Mystic, Connecticut. The Mystic Art Association, an organization of artists who painted in the seacoast town, was founded by Charles Harold Davis in 1913. It opened the Mystic Arts Center in 1931 as an exhibition space and museum. Mystic Arts Center was renamed Mystic Museum of Art in 2016. Its permanent collection features works by Davis, Robert Brackman, Yngve Edward Soderberg, J. Alden Weir, Charles Herbert Woodbury, and many others. Official website References
Ansonia Library

The Ansonia Library is the public library serving Ansonia, Connecticut. It is located at 53 South Cliff, in an architecturally distinguished Richardsonian Romanesque building designed by Connecticut architect George Keller and completed in 1892 as a gift from Caroline Phelps Stokes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 23, 1985. Architecture and building history The Ansonia Library stands in a mainly residential area a short way east of downtown Ansonia, on a triangular parcel at the junction of South Cliff Street and Cottage Avenue. It is a two-and-a-half-story building with load-bearing brownstone walls, 82 by 70 feet (25 m × 21 m) in plan. Its walls are 2 feet (0.61 m) and thicker. Its asymmetrical plan is visually dominated by a square tower on the left side, with a clock in its upper stage and a pyramidal copper roof. The main entrance is set near the center of the South Cliff facade, recessed under a large round arch. The gable above the entrance has a rose window near its peak. The building was donated by Caroline Phelps Stokes as a memorial to her parents and to her maternal grandfather Anson Greene Phelps, a locally prominent industrialist who founded the Ansonia Brass Works, and for whom the city is named. The building was built on land purchased by Stokes, and was completed in 1892. It was not formally turned over to the city for four years, over disagreements between the family and the city over control of the library and the need for a maintenance fund. A major addition was made to the building's southern end in 1960, designed by O.C.S. Zircoli of Bridgeport. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut References External links Official website
Harcourt Wood Memorial Library

Harcourt Wood Memorial Library (also known as the Derby Public Library) is a historic public library at 313 Elizabeth Street in Derby, Connecticut. Built in 1902, it is a fine local example of Colonial Revival architecture, funded by the local streetcar railway owner. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Architecture and history Derby's main public library building is located a few blocks from the downtown, on a triangular lot formed by Elizabeth and Caroline Streets. It is a single story structure, with a frame concrete and steel, with walls built primarily out of Ansonia granite and brick. The main facade is three bays wide, with large multipane windows in the outer bays, flanking the main entrance. The entrance, flanked by sidelights and topped by an eyebrow window, is sheltered by an elaborate multi-column Colonial Revival portico. A stone gable rises above the portico, flush with the main wall, its end caps topped by round finials. The side walls take the distinctive rounded shape of Flemish gables, with the ends and crown also topped by round finials. The interior retains most of its original woodwork and many of its original furnishings. Derby's first library, a small reading room, was founded in 1868. This building was built in 1902 following the donation of land and funds for its construction by H. Holton Wood, a native of Montreal who made his fortune operating Derby's streetcar railway system. The library is named in honor of Wood's son Harcourt, who died at the age of 12 in 1897. The building was designed by Boston architect Hartley Dennett. There is no evidence that the library was built on land donated by the Sarah Riggs Humphreys Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut References External links Official website
Hotel America (Hartford, Connecticut)

The Hotel America is a historic former hotel building at 5 Constitution Avenue on Constitution Plaza in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1964, it is believed to be the first building erected in the state as part of an urban redevelopment project, and is an important local early example of Modern architecture. Now the Spectra Boutique Apartments, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. Description and history The former Hotel America building marks the eastern end of Constitution Plaza, a major 1960s development on the east side of Hartford's downtown. It is a twelve-story structure, built out of steel, concrete, and glass. Its main axis is oriented north–south, with the building passing over Kinsey Street on large steel I-beam trusses. The Hartford Redevelopment Agency was founded in 1950, and Constitution Plaza was its first major project, designed to revitalize an urban slum area on Hartford's east side. The Hotel America building was designed by Curtis & Davis, a firm noted for its Modernist architecture, and was completed in 1964. The trusses carrying the building over Kinsey Street were the largest made to date in the state. The hotel's branding changed several times over the years, named as a Sonesta, and in its later years, as a Clarion Hotel. The vacant building was acquired by developers in 2011 and converted into luxury apartments. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut References External links Spectra Boutique Apartments web site
Mather Homestead (Hartford, Connecticut)

The Mather Homestead is a historic house at 2 Mahl Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1835, it is a rare surviving example of a 19th-century farmstead in the city. Its adaptive reuse over time is also indicative of the transformation of its surrounds by increasing urbanization. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is now home to a chapter of Masons. Description and history The Mather Homestead is located in the Clay-Arsenal neighborhood on Hartford's north side, on the north side of Mahl Avenue just west of Main Street, the historic main road between downtown Hartford and Windsor. It is a two-story brick building, covered by a low-pitch hip roof. Its main facade faces south, and is asymmetrically arranged, with three closely spaced windows at the center of the second floor and one at the left end. The first floor is sheltered by a full-width porch with six Doric columns, and has a center entrance. An ell extends to the left side at a recess. The house was built sometime between 1835 and 1843 by William Mather. It remained an agricultural property until 1893, when the farm was subdivided for residential development. The house originally had a Main Street address, which changed when Mahl Avenue was opened in that year. After a period of domestic use, it was converted into a synagogue in 1926, and was acquired by what is now known as the Esp Masonic Lodge in 1954. The lodge, chartered in 1859, is one of the oldest African-American civic organizations in the city. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut References
Museo Eli Whitney

Il Museo Eli Whitney (Eli Whitney Museum), situato a Hamden (Connecticut), è incentrato sui progetti e invenzioni di Eli Whitney e Alfred Carlton Gilbert, con particolare attenzione all'interattività. È stato fondato nel 1979. Il suo attuale (febbraio 2009) direttore è William Brown. Il luogo dove si trova il museo è considerato di importanza storica nazionale (historic site): qui Eli Whitney iniziò la rivoluzione industriale statunitense. Storia L'edificio del museo era in origine la fabbrica di armi di Ely Whitney, costruita per produrre moschetti su un terreno che egli acquistò il 17 settembre 1798. La fabbrica prendeva l'energia per le macchine dal fiume Mill River e produceva queste armi per il Governo federale degli Stati Uniti. Eli Whitney il 14 giugno 1798 ottenne un contratto per produrre 10 000 moschetti da consegnare entro 28 mesi al prezzo di 134 000 $; in realtà la completa consegna avvenne in dieci anni. Quando Whitney firmò il contratto non aveva fabbrica, operai ed esperienza per costruire queste armi. In una lettera al Segretario al Tesoro degli Stati Uniti Oliver Wolcott Jr., un amico e compagno di laurea all'Università di Yale, Whitney scriveva: «Sono convinto che le macchine mosse dall'acqua adattate a questo tipo di lavorazioni diminuirebbero notevolmente il lavoro manuale e faciliterebbero la realizzazione di questi prodotti. Macchine per forgiare, laminare, movimentare, alesare, smerigliare, ecc. potrebbero essere usate con profitto... » (13 maggio, 1798). La fabbrica di Whitney era all'avanguardia nella rivoluzione industriale statunitense con l'uso di macchine che prendevano la forza motrice da mulini ad acqua e fu tra i primi nell'uso di molte parti meccaniche standardizzate e intercambiabili. Attività del museo Il museo espone ideazioni di Whitney e la sua più nota invenzione, la sgranatrice di cotone. Altre esposizioni riguardano il sito storico e Alfred Carlton Gilbert, inventore e realizzatore di giochi, noto in particolare per l'invenzione dell'Erector Set, in italiano noto come meccano (il termine meccano si riferisce all'analogo gioco della "Meccano Ltd"). I workshop sono un laboratorio sperimentale per la progettazione e specializzato nel progetto di costruzioni per bambini mescolando scienza e fantasia. Il museo predispone programmi estivi e organizza feste di compleanno. Nelle vicinanze Il museo si trova vicino a un bacino idrico (Lake Whitney) e a un sentiero di montagna. C'è anche una ricostruzione del ponte coperto con una travatura reticolare all'avanguardia di Ithiel Town. Note Voci correlate Sgranatrice di cotone Ithiel Town Altri progetti Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Museo Eli Whitney Collegamenti esterni (EN) Il sito ufficiale del museo, su eliwhitney.org.
Музей Эли Уитни

Музей Эли Уитни (англ. Eli Whitney Museum) — музей в Хамдене, штат Коннектикут. Главное здание музея расположено на территории оружейной фабрики Eli Whitney Gun Factory, построенной Эли Уитни в 1798 году. Музей является образовательной площадкой, сфокусированной на обучении экспериментам, лежащим в области дизайна и изобретений, с демонстрацией проектов и экспонатов Эли Уитни и Альфреда Гилберта. История Здание Музей расположен на территории, которая была первоначально выбрана для производства мушкетов на участке, который он купил 17 сентября 1798 года. Завод использовал энергию воды Милл и производил мушкеты по заказу правительства Соединенных Штатов. Территория вокруг оружейной фабрики когда-то была известна как Уитнивилл — поселение рабочих фабрики вдоль реки Милл. Известный американский художник — Уильям Мансон (William Giles Munson) создал несколько работ, посвящённых фабрике Эли Уитни. Музей в настоящее время занимает территорию площадью около 4 гектар между Уитни-авеню (Whitney Avenue) и рекой, включая кирпичное здание фабрики, построенное на этом месте в 1890 году. Музей В музее Эли Уитни имеются экспонаты, посвященные самому Уитни и его самому известному изобретению — хлопкоочистителю. Другие экспонаты показывают продукцию Альфреда Гилберта — известного изобретателя и производителя игрушек. Также музей представляет собой экспериментальную мастерскую по обучению дизайну и специализируется на проектах для детей, сочетающих науку и изобретение. Сохранилась плотина которую построил Эли Уитни для использования реки в технологических процессах фабрики. В музее также имеются каналы со шлюзами, а также пешеходные тропы. Здесь проводится ежегодный праздник импровизационного творчества — Leonardo Challenge, на который приглашают художников и дизайнеров из Нью-Хейвена, штат Коннектикут, для создания необычных работ. В дополнение к регулярным образовательным программам, музей поддерживает одновременно около 60 учеников для получения более долгосрочного оплачиваемого практического опыта. Возраст учеников составляет от 13 до 18 лет; они обычно работают 200 часов в течение учебного года и 400 часов летом на каникулах. Они изучают навыки проектирования, конструирования и преподавания. В числе выпускников таких курсов: Дженнифер Оксли (обладательница премии «Эмми»), экономист Эмили Остер и Джошуа Ревкин (Joshua Revkin, чемпион мира по парусному спорту). Музей включён в Национальный реестр исторических мест США. Примечания Ссылки Официальный сайт