As a West Hartford resident of over twenty years, I have another opportunity to expose my lack of knowledge about this town I call home. If you are equally unfamiliar, allow me to introduce the Sarah Whitman Hooker House, one of only a few examples of 18th century architecture in West Hartford. West Hartford is…
A month or so before the holidays, West Hartford resident Allan Mayer reached out to see if I would help with a Christmas gift for his wife Ellen. Given Ellen’s love for their stately Prospect Avenue home and her interest in history, we landed on a house portrait as well as some background on its former owners. Although I had…
“City sidewalk, busy sidewalks Dressed in holiday style. In the air there’s A feeling of Christmas.” Christmas in Connecticut felt like anything but this year. Yards are springtime muddy instead of frozen and crunchy and the temperatures make wearing those new winter boots, sweaters and scarves next to impossible. Sledding? Ice skating? Horse drawn open…
A winner of multiple Historic Preservation Awards in my hometown of West Hartford, CT, David Booth Beers is no stranger to living in an older home. He and his family live in the charming yellow 1920’s home featured above, and David has enjoyed a lengthy career of remodeling many vintage homes under his firm’s trade name Walbridge…
How many towns can boast their own demonstration farm offering a wide variety of programming to its residents? I would venture to say not very many! Thanks to the foresight and generosity of Mr. Charles Hunter who left the property to the Town of West Hartford when he passed in 1961, West Hartford residents are…
What do you do with a massive 185,000 square foot brick building that is no longer useful for its original intended purpose? A building with beautiful architecture and an integral component of the street scape in the local area? We have just such a scenario in my current home town of West Hartford with the…
