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Title	Allyn House, corner of Asylum Street and Trumbull Street, Hartford.
Place	Asylum Street (Hartford, Conn.) Trumbull Street (Hartford, Conn.)
Topic	Hotels Horse-drawn vehicles Horses Central Business Districts Stores, Retail
Topic-Person	Jordan, Octavius J., 1825- ?
Topic-Organization, Vessel	Allyn House
Theme	Environment Lifestyle Infrastructure
Description	Four-story brownstone Italianate hotel building with quoins at the corners of the projecting center bays, a heavy cornice and cast iron balconies on the second floor. Letters above the arched entrance read: "Allyn House." Striped awnings are above some windows. Signs read: "Cigars" "Charles Avery" "Boots & Shoes" "Hartford Optical Co. / Protected / Spectacles Eye Glasses" "City Optical Establishment / Spectacles Eye Glasses" "Sykes & Newton Apothecaries Drugs Medicines & Chemicals" "Mineral / Waters / Foreign / and / American" "Surgical / Instruments." One sign is in the shape of a horseshoe, another in the shape of eyeglasses. The striped poles at far right probably indicate a barbershop. Striped poles are at the street corner on either side of the street. A sign on one pole reads: "Baths." A street lamp is atop this pole. Trolley tracks are in the street and wires are overhead. Pedestrians, blurred from movement, are on the sidewalk. Two horse-drawn vehicles, probably cabs, are outside the hotel entrance.<br>
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger. <br>The Allyn house was the finest hotel in Hartford when constructed in 1857. It was designed by Octavius J. Jordan and was located near the railroad station. It was demolished in 1960. <br>William T. Stevens was the proprietor of the Hartford Optical Co. <br>Charles Avery sold boots and shoes at 148 Asylum Street. <br>E.S. Sykes and P.W. Newton were the partners in Sykes & Newton, apothecaries, 142 Asylum Street. <br>
Date created	[between 1870 and 1889]
Physical format	1 photomechanical reproduction ; 20 x 24 cm.<br>
Digital format	image/jpeg
Identifier	Accession number X.2000.14.37<br>File name 0532 img0068.pcd<br>
Source	The Connecticut Historical Society
Rights	Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford.
Sub-collection	Prints

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