Forbes Village

Places of Interest

Gideon Welles House

Historic building

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The Gideon Welles House is a historic house at 17 Hebron Avenue in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Built in 1783, it was home to generations of the locally prominent Welles family, whose most famous member was Gideon Welles, the United States Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.

Selden Brewer House

Museum

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The Selden Brewer House is a historic house at Naubuc Avenue and Main Street in East Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1827, it is a good local example of late Federal/early Greek Revival architecture.

Welles-Turner Memorial Library

Library

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Welles-Turner Memorial Library is situated 1½ miles south of Forbes Village.

Places in the Area

Naubuc Avenue-Broad Street Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Naubuc Avenue-Broad Street Historic District encompasses a largely agrarian village area of southwestern East Hartford, Connecticut. Extending along Naubuc Avenue from the Glastonbury line to Broad Street, and along Broad to Main Street, its architecture encapsulates the area's history between the 18th and early 20th centuries.

Curtisville Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Curtisville Historic District encompasses a predominantly residential area along Naubuc Avenue and Pratt Streets in northwestern Glastonbury, Connecticut.

Glastonbury

Town

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Glastonbury is a town in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States, officially founded in 1693 and first settled in 1636. It was named after Glastonbury in Somerset, England. Glastonbury is situated 1½ miles south of Forbes Village.

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