Collins and Townley Streets District

The Collins and Townley Streets District is a historic district encompassing a cluster of mid-to-late 19th-century residences in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut.

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Type: Neighborhood
Description: historic district in Connecticut, United States
Also known as: “Collins and Townley Streets Historic District”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center and Mark Twain House Museum.

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

Hospital

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Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center is a 617-bed acute care hospital located on Woodland Street in Hartford, Connecticut. The hospital was established in 1897 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chambéry.

Mark Twain House Museum

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The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens and his family from 1874 to 1891. The Clemens family had it designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the America High Gothic style.

Cathedral of St. Joseph

Church

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The Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is the mother church and seat of the Archdiocese of Hartford. Dedicated on May 15, 1962, it stands on the site of the first cathedral which was destroyed by fire in 1956.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sigourney Square District and Laurel and Marshall Streets District.

Sigourney Square District

Neighborhood

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The Signourney Square Historic District encompasses a neighborhood in the Asylum Hill area of Hartford, Connecticut, United States, that was almost entirely built out in a single decade at the end of the 19th century as a middle-class residential area.

Laurel and Marshall Streets District

Neighborhood

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The Laurel and Marshall Streets District is a historic district encompassing a late-19th and early-20th century residential area in the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut.