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The Sage-Allen flagship store building in downtown Hartford, built in 1898, has been restored and now contains both retail space and luxury apartments. [2] The store was known for the free-standing 'Sage-Allen' clock, a local landmark, that was located on the Main Street sidewalk in front of the store until the clock was damaged in a windstorm in 1992.
The Department Store Historic District is a historic district in the Downtown Hartford neighborhood of the city of Hartford, Connecticut, United States.. It is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) area that, in 1995, included three contributing buildings, one other contributing structure, and one contributing object.
John Hall Sage (April 20, 1847 – August 16, 1925) was an American banker and ornithologist who published scores of essays on the birds of Connecticut and other topics for the American Ornithologists' Union, which he served as secretary for twenty-eight years. [1] [2] Born in Portland, Connecticut, Sage was a
Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut.The city, located in Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 as of the 2020 United States census.Hartford is the most populous city in the Capitol Planning Region and the core city of the Greater Hartford metropolitan area.
The town of East Hartford was settled as part of Hartford in the 17th century, primarily as an agricultural outpost, and was separately incorporated in 1783. Main Street was laid out in the 1670s, and became a major roadway between Hartford and communities to the east.
Dutch fur traders from New Amsterdam, now New York City, set up trade on the site as early as 1623, following Adriaen Block's exploration in 1614. The Dutch named their post Fort Goede Hoop or the 'Hope House' (Huys de Hoop) and helped expand the New Netherland colony, roughly analogous to the modern-day New York, New Jersey & Connecticut Tri-State Region, to the banks of the Connecticut River.
Asylum Hill. Asylum Hill is a 615-acre (2.49 km 2) centrally located Hartford neighborhood with about 10,500 residents.It rises uphill directly west of Downtown Hartford but is mostly flat until it slopes downward at its western edge, along the flood plain of the north branch of the now-buried Park River.
The Asylum Avenue District encompasses the institutional core of the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut.Located just west of Downtown Hartford across Interstate 84, it includes four churches, a school, and a handful of adjacent 19th-century residences.