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Built to a design by the Hartford firm Davis & Brooks, it is a prominent local example of Colonial Revival architecture. It housed the town library (founded in 1897) between 1917 and 1937, and later served as a YMCA/YWCA hall and a senior center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. [1]
West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of downtown Hartford. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region . The population was 64,083 at the 2020 census .
The West Hill Historic District is a prestigious residential subdivision of the town of West Hartford, Connecticut. Originally the site of the estate of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt , son of transportation magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt , it was developed as a planned subdivision of upper-class residences in the 1920s.
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The Library Company was a subscription company and opened with some 700 books. The Library Company changed its name to the Hartford Library Company in 1799 and met in the Grammar School House, once located where the east end of the Municipal Building (Hartford City Hall) is today. Its first librarian was Solomon Porter, a Yale graduate and ...
The 32 properties and districts located in the town of West Hartford include two National Historic Landmarks and are listed below. The properties and districts in the remaining parts of the county are listed separately. Six properties and districts straddle the border between West Hartford and Hartford and appear in both lists.
researchIT CT [7] is a free online resource service of the CT State Library. This service provides journal, magazine, and newspaper articles for Connecticut public, K12, and academic libraries and their users. This service also offers a collection of downloadable eAudios and eBooks for Connecticut residents with valid CT public library card ...
The West End Library, now the Unionville Museum, is a historic library and museum building at 15 School Street in the Unionville village of Farmington, Connecticut. The Renaissance style building was designed by New York City architect Edward Tilton, and completed in 1917 with funding from Andrew Carnegie . [ 2 ]