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Thursday, April 27, 2006
Ridgefield Historic District created
The City Council has voted to create a historic district in the city's Blue Hills neighborhood.
The new Ridgefield Historic District covers approximately 30 homes along Keney Park, running on Ridgefield Street between Westbourne Parkway and Plainfield Street, the Hartford Courant reports. The move gives homes in the district some legal protection, along with prestige.
# Posted by Kevin Flood at 4:57 PM
Historic Capewell gets new investor
The long-anticipated conversion of the former Capewell Horse Nail Co. factory into condominiums may start by September, thanks to a new investor in the project: the New Boston Fund Inc., a real-estate investment fund that owns the new condominium complex at Pearl and Trumbull streets.
The project’s developer, John Reveruzzi, says he has signed a letter of intent that makes New Boston his new partner, according to the Hartford Courant.
The red-brick building, located on Charter Oak Avenue, between the Colt factory and Main Street, has been vacant for some time and vulnerable to vandalism.
# Posted by Kevin Flood at 7:42 AM
Friday, April 21, 2006
Save the gravestones of our Revolutionary War veterans
By one count, the Old South Burying Ground holds the remains of 32 Revolutionary War veterans, not to mention those of many other early residents of Hartford. Yet the place is almost invisible, set far back from Maple Avenue and overshadowed by the adjacent Fox Elementary School (formerly Bulkeley High School.) That invisibility has been costly. Most of the gravestones have crumbled; some have all but disappeared. A small group, Friends of the Old South Burying Ground, has been trying its best to preserve the cemetery, but it needs help -- especially from the City of Hartford, which controls the site.
On Monday, April 17, the Friends took it upon themselves to hold Patriots Day ceremonies at the gravesites of the Revolutionary War veterans they could identify. Here's a PDF file containing photographs of the event and some of the stones.
And here's a Yahoo! map for finding the place.
# Posted by Kevin Flood at 5:31 PM
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