Showing posts with label Hartford Connecticut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hartford Connecticut. Show all posts

Monday, December 2, 2013

The Hartford Times Building, Hartford, Conn. (Postcard Series)

Constructed in 1925

The Hartford Times was an afternoon newspaper published from 1826 until 1976.

UConn Hartford Campus Will Move to Hartford Times Building. (NBC Connecticut,8/14/2013)

The Hartford Times Again.  (Naples and Hartford in Season, 5/18/2013)

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Pre-WWII Downtown Hartford, Connecticut (Postcard)




  • 1947:  Established in Hartford 
  • 1918:  Eleven-story building open, replacing 5-story structure destroyed by fire.
  • 1965:  Sold to May Department Stores Company.
  • 1969:  Downtown store's final expansion.
  • 1969:  First branch store opens in Waterbury.  (11 more opened during following 2 decades.)
  • 1992:  Name change to Filene's.
  • 1993:  Downtown Hartford flagship store closes.
  • 2006:  Remaining stores sold to Federated Department Stores; name changed to Macy's.

Reviving Ailing Retail in Downtown Hartford.  (The New York Times, 6/9/1993)
Escape from Connecticut's Cities.  (Brookings, 4/8/2001)
Downtown Discount.  (Hartford Business Journal, 2/7/2011)


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