Indexing My Hartford Videos by Subject
I sometimes get questions about specific buildings or places in Hartford and occasionally it turns out that I’ve talked about them at some point in my past videos. Perhaps I should have been making shorter videos covering specific things rather than stacking in everything on a given block into each long video. In any case, I thought I might try to organize most of the videos in a list by topic/subject matter. I’ll have to divide this between two emails due to length restrictions. In this email they are listed by subjects (with links!) In another email I’ll list them by specific street locations. Some of the videos will only be listed in one of these emails or the other, while others will overlap, so please check out both emails! I hope that the following listings make navigating my videos a little easier. (I haven’t checked every link, so I hope they all work and lead to the right places!)
General Videos
Downtown Hartford’s Five Worst Neighborhood Obliterations
Eight Worst Examples of Buildings Downtown Replaced by Parking Lots
Hartford’s Twenty Most Iconic Buildings
Great Buildings and Architecture on Main Street
Washington and Rochambeau in Hartford
Specific Subject Areas
Hartford’s Lost Riverfront
My first video about the lost riverfront area, my second, my third, my fourth
Dutch Point I (Early History), Dutch Point II (Log Drives), Dutch Point III (Power Plant)
Videos About Houses
Three Lost Colonial Houses on Main Street
Pliny Jewell House on Farmington Avenue and his Famous Frogs
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Oakholm
Mark Twain’s Nook Farm, Architecture of the Mark Twain House
Lost Mansions of Washington Street
Vanderbilt Mansion in West Hartford
Videos About Retail and Restaurants
Compilation of Department Store Videos
Early History of G. Fox & Co., Later History of G. Fox & Co., G. Fox Marquee Christmas Village
Sage, Allen & Co., Wise, Smith & Co., Brown-Thomson & Co.
Five and Dimes (F. W. Woolworth, W. T. Grant, J. J. Newberry, S. S. Kresge)
J. J. Newberry, S. S. Kresge and Steiger’s, W. T. Grant and Honiss Oyster House, Frank’s Restaurant (partway through video)
Honiss Oyster House and the Marble Pillar
Pippie’s, DePasquale’s, Clover leaf Cafe, Mickey’s, Frank’s
Thanksgiving Inflation at the Capitol Grill
Lord & Taylor (Bishops Corner in West Hartford)
Videos About Other Specific Lost Buildings (and a Famous Tree)
Lost Movie Theaters, State Theater, Grand/New Parsons Theater, Empire Theater
Hartford Public High School (Hopkins and Broad Streets, and earlier at Trumbull and Ann Streets)
The Phoenix National Bank (across from the Old State House)
Hartford’s First Skyscraper (corner of Main and Asylum Streets)
Allyn House Hotel (corner of Trumbull and Asylum Streets)
Trinity College’s Lost Campus (at site of State Capitol)
Union Station and Auditorium Building Fires of 1914
Pearl Street Congregational Church
Two Churches that were Moved from One Street to Another
What Used to Stand Where There’s a Modern Landmark
Bushnell Plaza, Wadsworth Atheneum and Municipal Building, Travelers Tower (1919), Travelers Building (1956)
XL Center (Trumbull Street Side), XL Center (Lost Allyn Street)
Constitution Plaza (State Street Side), Constitution Plaza (Market Street Side), Constitution Plaza (Front Street Side)
Gold Building, “Stilts” Building, City Place, Brownstone Building
Dunkin’ Park, The Pennant Apartments
Barnard-Brown/Capitol Prep Magnet School
In Front of the Ancient Burial Ground
Hartford Hospital, Saint Francis Hospital