West Hill Historic District

The West Hill Historic District is a prestigious residential subdivision of the town of West Hartford, Connecticut. Originally the site of the estate of Cornelius J.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Elizabeth Park and Mark Twain House Museum.

Elizabeth Park

Park

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Elizabeth Park is a city park located in Hartford and West Hartford, Connecticut. It covers 102 acres and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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.

Edward W. Morley School

School

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Edward W. Morley School is an elementary school in the West Hartford Public School District. The school is named after Edward W. Morley, a professor of chemistry at Case Western Reserve University who was famous for the Michelson–Morley experiment.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oxford-Whitney Streets Historic District and West End North Historic District.

Oxford-Whitney Streets Historic District

Neighborhood

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The Oxford-Whitney Streets District is a historic district encompassing an early-20th-century residential area in the West End Neighborhood of Hartford, the Capital City of the U.S.

West End North Historic District

Neighborhood

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The West End North Historic District encompasses a neighborhood of late 19th and early 20th century residential architecture in western Hartford, Connecticut and eastern West Hartford, Connecticut.