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Hartford's Character The Bones Of The City's Architecture Help Shape Its Personality By ANDREW FRIEDMAN | Special To The Courant | Illustrations by Ananda Walden and Bob MacDonnell | The Hartford Courant June 20, 2008
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GRAPHIC Prospect Avenue - Crenellated Tower GRAPHIC Whitney Street - Dormers GRAPHIC Congress Street - Corintian Column GRAPHIC Ridgefield - Gambrel Roof GRAPHIC Charter Oak Place - Cupola GRAPHIC Asylum Street - Fanlight GRAPHIC Belden Street - Oriel GRAPHIC Fairfield Avenue - Loggia GRAPHIC New Britain Avenue - Palladian Window GRAPHIC Ashley Street - Quoins GRAPHIC Architectural details are not the limbs of architecture — they're the personality. Thanks to them, the streets of Hartford crowd with flirts, snobs, scoundrels, busybodies, dreamers, rebels and dandies, and that's before you even get inside the houses. In an 1872 Hartford Courant, a man calling himself only "a practical stone cutter" asked: "Can there be an American Architecture?" Critics fussily wrote back: "We are not an art people here in Connecticut; it is opposed to all the principles of our plain Puritan life." The houses of Hartford beg to differ. Here is a selection of the pleasantly preening spotlight hogs that render the living space of the Insurance City anything but drab.
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