- Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Title:
- Allyn House, Hartford, Conn.
- Creator:
- Ullman Mfg. Co. (New York, New York)
- Publisher:
- New York, New York: Ullman Mfg. Co.
- Date of Original:
- 1911
- Subject:
- Hotels--Connecticut--Hartford
Hartford (Conn.)
Historic buildings--Connecticut--Hartford
Postcards--Connecticut--Hartford - Location:
- United States, Connecticut, Hartford County, Hartford, 41.76371, -72.68509
- Medium:
- postcards
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Postcard (color, divided back 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches) titled – Allyn House, Hartford, Conn. The Allyn House was built in 1857 by Timothy Allyn, and in its heyday was one of the city’s premier hotels. In his 1867 Illustrated Guide to the Connecticut Valley, Henry Martyn Burt describes it as “the largest and most elegant” of Hartford’s hotels, and that “no pains have been spared to make this a first class hotel in every respect.” As built, it could accommodate almost 300 guests, many of whom were likely businessmen involved in Hartford’s insurance industry, as well as politicians working and visiting the state capital. Around the time that the first photo was taken, it was the Hartford residence of many prominent state politicians
at various times the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney General, and Speaker of the House lived here. Postage affixed: green Franklin one cent stamp. Postmarked April 24, 1911 Hartford, Conn. Card number 4037 - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-504
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-504#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/zgz_epogpc_mccls-pstcrd-504/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 postcard : col. ill.
- Original Collection:
- Ellen Payne Odom Genealogy Library Postcard Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System
- Rights:
-
