Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Hartford, United States

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Number of sights 12 sights
Distance 8.7 km
Ascend 101 m
Descend 106 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: Capen–Clark Historic District

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The Capen-Clark Historic District encompasses a residential neighborhood area in the North End of Hartford, Connecticut. Centered on Capen Street between Main and Enfield Streets, it contains a cross-section of post-Civil War Victorian vernacular housing styles, and shows in its development patterns the ebb and flow of the city's economy between about 1865 and 1910. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Wikipedia: Capen-Clark Historic District (EN), Heritage Website

1123 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 2: Spring Grove Cemetery

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Spring Grove Cemetery is a cemetery on Main Street in the Clay-Arsenal neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut. Established in 1845, it is one of the city's oldest cemeteries, and its first private non-sectarian cemetery. Its burials include a number of the city's high-profile civic and business leaders, as well as a substantial indigent population, and artist Frederic Edwin Church. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

Wikipedia: Spring Grove Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut) (EN), Heritage Website

609 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 3: Faith Congregational Church

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Faith Congregational Church C. Hitchcock (char46r) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Windsor Avenue Congregational Church is a historic church at 2030 Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut. The brick Romanesque Revival-style church building, completed in 1872, now houses Faith Congregational Church, whose lineage includes the city's oldest African-American congregation, established in 1819. The church is a stop on the Connecticut Freedom Trail and was listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

Wikipedia: Windsor Avenue Congregational Church (EN), Website, Heritage Website

20 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 4: Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

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The Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal Church at 2051 Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut. This High Victorian Gothic structure was built in 1873-74 for an Episcopal congregation, and has since 1926 been the home to the city's oldest African-American congregation, which was established in 1833. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

Wikipedia: Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (EN), Website, Heritage Website

578 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 5: Widows' Home

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The Widows' Home is a historic social service facility at 1846-1860 North Main Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1864–65, its buildings are among the oldest in the city's North End, and a rare surviving example of a mid-19th-century facility for indigent women. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The buildings have been adapted to other uses.

Wikipedia: Widows' Home (EN), Heritage Website

565 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: Old North Cemetery

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The Old North Cemetery is a cemetery on Main Street in the Clay-Arsenal neighborhood north of downtown Hartford, Connecticut. It was established in 1807, and was the city's second municipal cemetery. It was the principal burying ground for the city's elites for many years, and has a fine collection of 19th-century funerary art. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. Although burials continue to take place there occasionally, they only take place on existing plots.

Wikipedia: Old North Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut) (EN), Heritage Website

949 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 7: House of God Church

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Chevry Lomday Mishnayes Synagogue is a historic former synagogue building at 148-150 Bedford Street in Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States. Built in 1924, it is unusual for an ecclesiastical structure in that its design appears to be based on that of an apartment house. It housed an Orthodox Jewish congregation until 1963, and now houses the local House of God Church. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Wikipedia: Chevry Lomday Mishnayes Synagogue (EN), Heritage Website

291 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Greater Refuge Church of Christ

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Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue is an historic former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 370 Garden Street, Hartford, Connecticut, in the United States.

Wikipedia: Beth Hamedrash Hagodol Synagogue (Hartford, Connecticut) (EN), Website, Heritage Website

638 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 9: Vine Street Apartment Buildings

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The Vine Street Apartment Buildings, many now known as the Horace Bushnell Apartments, are a historic collection of residential apartment blocks at 4-48 Vine Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Built between 1922 and 1925, they consist of eleven brick buildings sharing massing, scale, and setting, with a cross-section of period building styles. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

Wikipedia: Vine Street Apartment Buildings (EN), Heritage Website

1112 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 10: Upper Albany Historic District

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The Upper Albany Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area of the North End of Hartford, Connecticut. It extends along Albany Avenue between Garden and Woodland Streets, including side streets to the south, and extends northward to include the southern portion of Keney Park. This area was developed in the first two decades of the 20th century, and has a fine array of period middle-class housing in the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Wikipedia: Upper Albany Historic District (EN), Heritage Website

913 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 11: North-West School

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The North-West School is a historic school building at 1240 Albany Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut. Built in 1891, it is a well-preserved example of a late 19th-century school building, considered state of the art at the time of its construction. It served the city as a school until 1978, and now stands vacant. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

Wikipedia: North-West School (EN), Heritage Website

1897 meters / 23 minutes

Sight 12: Sigourney Square Historic District

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The Signourney Square Historic District encompasses a neighborhood in the Asylum Hill area of Hartford, Connecticut, United States, that was almost entirely built out in a single decade at the end of the 19th century as a middle-class residential area. It is roughly bounded by Garden, Ashley, and Woodland Streets on the east, south, and west, and by railroad tracks north of Sargeant Street to the north. The area retains much of its late 19th-century character, with relatively few modern intrusions. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, with small additions in 1983 and 2011.

Wikipedia: Sigourney Square District (EN), Heritage Website

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