National Register of Historic Places

Building at 136-138 Collins Street

Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
Listed
November 29, 1979
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
79002681

About this property

136–138 Collins Street is an architecturally distinguished Second Empire house in Hartford. Built about 1870, it is a rare and well-preserved example of this style in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 29, 1982. 136–138 Collins Street is located in Hartford's Asylum Hill neighborhood, on the north side of Collins Street east of Sumner Street. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick structure, with a slate mansard roof. It is set on an elevated basement, giving it a taller than typical appearance. It is three bays wide, with its entrance in the center bay, and a two-story projecting pavilion to its right. The roof line is pierced by dormers in the mansard section that have elaborately carved surrounds and round-arch windows, that in the projecting section larger than the others. The latter dormer has a bellcast shape with a peaked hood. The roof the eaves have paired brackets. Windows are set in rectangular openings, with peaked lintels and bracketed sills. The house was built about 1870. It probably had a more ornate front porch; the present one is a 20th-century replacement. The house was once owned by Isaac Frisbie, the superintendent of Hartford's poorhouse, which was located behind the house. National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut

Location

136-138 Collins St.
Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
41.77182, -72.68836

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When was Building at 136-138 Collins Street listed on the National Register?

Building at 136-138 Collins Street was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 29, 1979.

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Building at 136-138 Collins Street is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Building at 136-138 Collins Street is recorded as the industrial era.

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