Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Hartford, United States

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Number of sights 20 sights
Distance 8.3 km
Ascend 195 m
Descend 182 m

Explore Hartford in United States with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in HartfordIndividual Sights in Hartford

Sight 1: Downtown North Historic District

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The Downtown North Historic District is a 19-acre (7.7 ha) historic district in Hartford, Connecticut. It is a predominantly residential area located around Main Street and High Street north of I-84 and south of the Amtrak railroad tracks. Its apartment blocks, houses, schools and churches, built up mainly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as part of an expansion of the city's urban core. It includes the 130-foot (40 m) Keney Tower. The area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

Wikipedia: Downtown North Historic District (Hartford, Connecticut) (EN), Heritage Website

398 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Footguard Hall

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Footguard Hall was the headquarters and armory of the First Company Governor's Footguard of the state Connecticut, a ceremonial military company founded in 1771 and originally tasked with protecting the governor and state legislature. The hall is located at 159 High Street, in Hartford, Connecticut, in a Romanesque Revival brick building built in 1888. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 in recognition of the organization's history and its distinctive architecture. The First Company Governor's Footguard now uses the Governor William A. O'Neill State Armory at 360 Broad Street, Hartford, Connecticut.

Wikipedia: Footguard Hall (EN), Heritage Website

299 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Hartford Union Station

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Hartford Union Station is a railroad station in Hartford, Connecticut, United States on the New Haven–Springfield Line. It is served by Amtrak Hartford Line, Northeast Regional, Valley Flyer, and Vermonter intercity rail service, plus CT Rail Hartford Line commuter rail service and CTfastrak bus rapid transit service.

Wikipedia: Hartford Union Station (EN), Heritage Website

211 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: High Street Historic District

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The High Street Historic District of Hartford, Connecticut is a 1.1-acre (0.45 ha) historic district that includes three buildings typifying the architectural styles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The buildings are located at 402-418 Asylum Street, 28 High Street, and 175-189 Allyn Street, and includes the Batterson Block and Judd and Root Building, each individually listed for their architecture.

Wikipedia: High Street Historic District (Hartford, Connecticut) (EN), Heritage Website

165 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Corning Fountain

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Corning Fountain is a fountain with sculpture located in Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut.

Wikipedia: Corning Fountain (EN)

408 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Goodwin Hotel

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The Goodwin Hotel, is a historic hotel and apartment building located in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Known for its distinctive English Queen Anne terracotta facade, the building was originally developed as an apartment building by brothers James J. Goodwin and Rev. Francis Goodwin and opened in 1881. It was designed by Francis Kimball and was modeled on buildings Rev. Goodwin had seen being constructed at the time in England. Kimball, of the firm of Kimball & Wisedell, was the architect for the Day House in Hartford, which also has an English Queen Anne design. The Goodwin Building was expanded in 1891 to Ann Street and in 1900 to Pearl Street. It was a very prestigious address at the time, with even J.P. Morgan living there during his visits to the city of his birth.

Wikipedia: Goodwin Hotel (EN), Website, Heritage Website

308 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Dillon Building

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The Dillon Building is a historic commercial building located at 69–71 Pratt Street in Downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1899, it is a good local example of Beaux Arts architecture, and its construction exemplified the transition of Pratt Street from a residential to commercial area. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 11, 1982.

Wikipedia: Dillon Building (EN), Heritage Website

286 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Hartford Stage

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Hartford Stage is an American 501(c)(3) non-profit regional theatre company located on Church Street in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Since its founding in 1963, Hartford Stage has won the Regional Theatre Tony Award (1989) and many Connecticut Critics Circle and other awards.

Wikipedia: Hartford Stage (EN)

155 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Christ Church Catherdral Churchyard

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Christ Church Catherdral Churchyard Kenneth C. Zirkel / CC BY 4.0

Christ Church Cathedral is a historic church at 955 Main Street in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Built in the 1820s to a design by Ithiel Town, it is one of the earliest known examples of Gothic Revival architecture in the United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, whose offices are next door at 45 Church Street.

Wikipedia: Christ Church Cathedral (Hartford, Connecticut) (EN), Heritage Website

91 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Department Store Historic District

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Department Store Historic District

The Department Store Historic District is a historic district in the Downtown Hartford neighborhood of the city of Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

Wikipedia: Department Store Historic District (EN), Heritage Website

76 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 11: R. and F. Cheney Building

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The R. and F. Cheney Building, also known as the Brown Thomson Building, is a commercial building designed by noted American architect H. H. Richardson. It is located at 942 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut, and is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: Cheney Building (EN), Heritage Website

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: First National Bank Building

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The First National Bank Building is a historic commercial building at 50-58 State House Square in the heart of downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1899, it is a fine local example of Beaux Arts architecture, and was one of the first of Hartford's commercial buildings to have a steel frame. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Wikipedia: First National Bank Building (Hartford, Connecticut) (EN), Heritage Website

424 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 13: Ancient Burying Ground

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The First Church of Christ and the Ancient Burying Ground is a historic church and cemetery at 60 Gold Street in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. It is the oldest church congregation in Hartford, founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker. The present building, the congregation's fourth, was built in 1807, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The adjacent cemetery, formally set apart in 1640, was the city's sole cemetery until 1803.

Wikipedia: First Church of Christ and the Ancient Burying Ground (EN), Heritage Website

272 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Hartford Club

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The Hartford Club is a private club at 46 Prospect Street in Hartford, Connecticut, founded in 1873.

Wikipedia: Hartford Club (EN), Heritage Website

762 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 15: Charter Oak Place

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Charter Oak Place is a street on the south side of downtown Hartford, Connecticut. Laid out in the 1860s, its residential character is in marked contrast to the commercial development that predominates around it. The street's buildings, constructed between the early 1860s and 1900, are a cross-section of Victorian architectural styles. The entire length of the street is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: Charter Oak Place (EN), Heritage Website

612 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 16: Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church

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Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church is a parish church in the Archdiocese of Hartford located in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. The parish was founded by Lithuanian immigrants within the 20th century. Construction of the church began in 1912.

Wikipedia: Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church (Hartford, Connecticut) (EN), Website

608 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 17: Jefferson–Seymour Historic District

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The Jefferson-Seymour District is a historic district encompassing a residential area on the south side of Hartford, Connecticut. Covering portions of Cedar, Wadsworth, Seymour and Jefferson Streets, it contains a well-preserved collection of late 19th and early 20th-century middle-class residential architecture, primarily executed in brick. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

Wikipedia: Jefferson-Seymour District (EN), Heritage Website

857 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 18: Frog Hollow Historic District

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Frog Hollow is one of the neighborhoods of Hartford, Connecticut. It is a predominantly working-class residential area, bounded on the north by Capitol Avenue, the east by Lafayette Street, the south by Madison and Hamilton Streets, and on the west by Interstate 84. The neighborhood was developed between about 1850 and 1930, and still contains a remarkable concentration of residential housing from that period. The entire neighborhood, covering more than 150 acres (61 ha) and including more than 900 buildings, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Wikipedia: Frog Hollow, Hartford, Connecticut (EN), Heritage Website

594 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 19: Elm Street Historic District

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The Elm Street Historic District encompasses a collection of architecturally distinguished institutional and residential buildings near the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, Connecticut. Located on Capitol Avenue and Trinity and Elm Streets, it includes the city's best concentration of early 20th-century architecture, including Bushnell Memorial Hall and several state office buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Wikipedia: Elm Street Historic District (Hartford, Connecticut) (EN), Heritage Website

1559 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 20: Cathedral of Saint Joseph

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The Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is the mother church and seat of the Archdiocese of Hartford. Dedicated on May 15, 1962, it stands on the site of the old cathedral which had been destroyed in a fire. It is located on Farmington Avenue just outside downtown Hartford.

Wikipedia: Cathedral of St. Joseph (Hartford, Connecticut) (EN), Website, Heritage Website

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