Expert Advice from Amy & Kyle Bergquist at Keller Williams Legacy Partners
These three homes caught my eye because they looked so similar. Not identical, but pretty close. Standard floor plans and cookie cutter homes are not so unusual these days, or even during the post-war build-out of the country’s first suburbs. But it is less common to see three adjacent homes built in the early 1900s look so similar, even down to the same color scheme. It turns out that all three structures are on a
Walking tours are available in different areas of Greater Hartford this fall. We’ve been on a few over the years and have enjoyed each of them. Here are some local walks that might be worth checking out. Hartford Preservation Alliance Sisson-South Whitney Neighborhood: Sat 9/8/2012 at 10:00 Hartford Hospital District: Sat 9/22/2012 at 10:00 Old North & Spring Grove Cemeteries: Sat 10/13/2012 at 10:00 Check out the Hartford Preservation Alliance Fall 2012 walking tour schedule
Ellen and I encountered this Lego version of the Mark Twain House in a recent visit to the airport. I’m sad to report that her first impulse was to glide under the rope and begin deconstruction – guess we need to work on her preservationist instinct.
We noticed the home on the left in West Hartford and were struck by how familiar it looked. A side-by-side comparison shows an uncanny resemblance.
Transcript Welcome to the quick tour of Hartford’s West End neighborhood, I’m Kyle Bergquist of Greater Hartford Real Estate TV. Not surprisingly, the West End is on the western edge of the City. It’s made up of all the land north of Capital Avenue and West of the Park River’s north fork. The neighborhood is mostly residential, with single-family and multi-family homes built in the very late 1800s and early 1900s. Apartments are available throughout