The Architects at Cedar Hill, Part II
Saturday, June 18, 2011, 10:00am – 11:30am
Tomas Nenortas & Mary Falvey of the Hartford Preservation Alliance led this tour of “Modern” architects interred at Cedar Hill. Visitors heard about the lives and architectural accomplishments of such noted architects as Walter T. Arnold, Marshall Davenson and Albert Entress.
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3rd Discover Hartford Bicycling & Walking Tour
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Bushnell Park, Downtown Hartford
sponsored by Bike Walk Connecticut
HPA was pleased to be provide 4 walking tours:
♦ Asylum Hill
♦ Bushnell Park/Capitol Grounds
♦ Downtown Moderns/Riverfront
♦ South Downtown/South Green
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The Architects at Cedar Hill
Saturday, July 17, 2010 10 a.m.
A Hartford Preservation Alliance & Cedar Hill Cemetery Foundation collaborative tour.
We strolled the pastoral setting of Cedar Hill Cemetery and shared the life and times of distinguished Hartford area architects and the building and homes they designed. Notables included James G. Batterson, Walter P. Crabtree, Edward Hopgood, William Scoville and Jacob Weidenmann (photo right, landscape architect of Cedar Hill).
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Build and They Will Come
Parkside, South Green and SoDo Historic Districts
Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:00 a.m.
An intriguing look into the development patterns of Downtown's southern neighborhooods strongly influenced by the arrival of Samuel and Elizabeth Colt. With the completion of the Colt Armory and their sumptous home, Armsmear, many fine houses along Charter Oak Place and Wethersfield Avenue followed which transformed the Capital City's 18th century boundary. The tour will highlight examples of buildings and spaces that cover a broad range of ages, styles, and types.
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Sigourney Square Historic District Walking Tour
April 24 2010
We traveled through Asylum Hill’s historic Sigourney Square neighborhood, tucked behind the Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Campus. Our tour, led by NINA’s Ken Johnson, focused on Atwood and Sargeant Streets, lined with late-Victorian homes built between 1897 and 1901 and the successful neighborhood revitalization efforts by NINA, one of HPA’s great preservation partners.
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National Register of Historic Places Plaque Unveiling & Grand Opening
November 16, 2009 6:00 P.M.
206-210 Farmington Avenue, Hartford
co-hosted by
Farmington-Imlay Associates
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Hartford Preservation Alliance
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From a member - Thank you so much for this announcment, which has special signficance to me. My grandmother, Julia Katzenstein, lived in this building in her later years, and I remember frequent visits and a sense of the faded grandeur of the apartment house . . . I live in Washington D.C. - my membership in the Hartford Preservation Alliance provides a connection with my roots and a city of which I have always been proud.
Bill Katzenstein, Architectural Photographer
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
From farmland and gentlemen’s estates to trolley car suburb, we strolled the avenue to learn how this neighborhood grew and explored how residential architecture evolved from the Victorian Age to the Progressive Era. Tour participants were treated to an inside look of the Memorial Baptist Church and the privately owned George Fairfield House (circa 1865).
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| THE MODERNS
Saturday, October 3, 2009
The weather held out and we explored the modern architecture of Constitution Plaza – why it came to be, what the vision was and who the nationally renowned architects are. Plus we viewed the ‘hiding place’ of a rare Civil War artifact.
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THE WEST END
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Our architectural enthusiasts journeyed past the impressive facades of one of Hartford’s most architecturally diverse neighborhoods and were treated to a tour of two privately owned homes. We viewed an array of styles showcasing the results of Hartford’s prominence as a state capital and center of business and culture.
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| 270 Whitney Street - Raymond Ellis, Architect |
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| RIDGEFIELD STREET HISTORIC DISTRICT
Saturday, September 12, 2009
The weather may have been damp but our intrepid architectural devotees explored the Blue Hills neighborhood that marks the last step in the evolution of Hartford's northern neighborhoods, where, beginning in the mid-19th century, residential developments had fanned out from the central city, and Yankee, Irish, Jewish and African-American communities had settled in succession. We viewed the original Weaver High School (and got "up close and personal" with its unique iconography), former synagogues, and the impressive residences that are homes to generations of Hartford's families.
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| Gospels in Stone - May 2, 2009 |
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| Professor Dorothy Bosch Keller (Chairperson, Department of Fine Arts & Performing Arts, St. Joseph College) led our tour of the Asylum Hill Churches: Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Asylum Avenue Baptist Church, Trinity Episcopal Church & The Cathedral of St. Joseph. Our thanks to the generosity of the Women's Spirituality & Fellowship Committee of Asylum Hill Congregational Church for co-sponsoring this tour.
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Old North Cemetery Planning Project
1st Community Meeting
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
6:00 ~ 7:30 p.m.
Ropkins Branch Library
SANDS Elementary School
(Main Street across from Old North Cemetery)
Heritage Landscapes, Preservation Landscape Architects & Planners is working with Norma Williams, landscape architect and historian and Norman Weiss, stone conservation specialist, for the City of Hartford on a master plan for this historic cemetery funded by the CT Commission on Culture and Tourism Department. The Old North Cemetery Historic Landscape Preservation Master Plan objectives are to guide effective preservation and management of the historically significant, valued cemetery landscape as a community asset.
To provide a brief introduction, Heritage Landscapes is a landscape architecture and planning firm that specializes in the preservation of historic landscapes. Heritage Landscapes’ body of work in cultural landscape planning and implementation is both deep and broad. Founded in 1987, our work of over 400 projects, including 50 similar planning projects for historic landscapes over the past 22 years. Heritage Landscapes prepared the 1991 Hartford Parks Master Plan addressing 32 parks. Heritage Landscapes is dedicated to a vibrant future for places of heritage. We have worked on many historic sites and several historic cemeteries, like Old North Cemetery, bringing a detailed understanding, and expertise to formulate plans working closely with communities, that are realistic and achievable. Norma Williams has worked on Old North Cemetery preservation and maintenance for several years representing the Connecticut Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
On Tuesday March 10, 2009, we are holding a Community Informational meeting from 6:00-7:30 pm at the Ropkins Branch Library at SAND Elementary School located on Main Street across from Old North Cemetery. Heritage Landscapes will present our project work and preliminary findings. Then we want to hear from you about your views for this project and the role of Old North in the community. Through this discussion, we will better understand:
§ Community values and needs § Cemetery uses § Issues § Future goals
For further information contact:
Sarah K. Cody, Project Manager
Heritage Landscapes LLC
203.852.9966
www.heritagelandscapes.com
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February 12, 2009 ~ Federal & State Tax Credit Seminar for Developers
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Connecticut Preservation Action (CPA) and Hartford Preservation Alliance (HPA), in conjunction with the owner of 56 Arbor Street, Hartford, CT, Al Pedemonti, hosted a seminar for for-profit and non-profit developers on using Federal and State tax credits. This event was well attended by over 75 builders, developers, and city and state preservation and economic development specialists.
To view the Power Point presentations of our panelists, click on the pictures to the right.
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| Todd Doyle ~ Shipman & Goodman |
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| Al Shehadi ~ National Trust Community Investment Fund |
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| Ken Johnson ~ NINA |
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