Forbes Village
Forbes Village is a neighborhood in East Hartford, Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut. Forbes Village is situated nearby to the neighborhood Welles Village, as well as near East Hartford Gardens.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gideon Welles House and Selden Brewer House.
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
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Naubuc Avenue-Broad Street Historic District and Curtisville Historic District.
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
Glastonbury
Town
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Glastonbury is a town in the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, United States, formally 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.
Forbes Village
- Type: Neighborhood
- Category: locality
- Location: East Hartford, Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut River Valley, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.73343° or 41° 44′ 0″ northLongitude
-72.59953° or 72° 35′ 58″ westElevation
95 feet (29 metres)Open location code
87H9PCM2+95OpenStreetMap ID
node 158815820OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
4834621
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