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Armsmear, the home of Mrs. Colt, Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford.

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Title	Armsmear, the home of Mrs. Colt, Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford.
Place	Wethersfield Avenue (Hartford, Conn.)
Topic	Dwellings Flower gardens Atriums
Topic-Person	Colt, Elizabeth H. Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862 Jordan, Octavius J., 1825- ?
Theme	Lifestyle
Description	Stucco Italianate house with towers, one with an ogee-shaped dome, finials and a glass atrium. Vines grow on the porch at the far right. Shrubs and plants grow in a garden at the left. An ornamental urn is nearby. A circular driveway surrounds a grassy lawn with a sculpture of a man on a horse. Small bedding plants are in a round garden in the foreground. Two horses in harness are in the right background. Inscribed on back: "Home of Mrs. Colt / Wethersfield Avenue" "Wethersfield Avenue / Armsmere [sic] / The home of Col. & Mrs. Samuel Colt. The old house has been turned into apartments and very much changed. Mrs. Colt willed 'Armsmere' to the Diocese of Connecticut and many Episcopal Clergymen's widows and families / now live there."<br>
Notes	Erected in 1857 for Samuel and Elizabeth Colt and attributed to the architect Octavius J. Jordan, Armsmear was the grandest residence in Hartford in its day. The house was altered after Elizabeth Colt died in 1909 to serve as a residence for the widows of Episcopalian ministers. <br>
Date created	[189-]
Physical format	1 photographic print ; 11 x 17 cm.<br>
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number 1956.84.33<br>File name 2828 img0051.pcd<br>
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society
Collection	Samuel Taylor Collection.<br>
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Photographs

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