Allen Place–Lincoln Street Historic District

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Allen Place–Lincoln Street Historic District

This is a small Hartford neighborhood built in the late 1800s for white-collar workers. It sits roughly between Madison, Washington, and Vernon Streets and Zion Hill Cemetery and covers about 23 acres. The area has well-preserved houses showing simple Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles, with some early Italianate features.

The district includes most of the houses facing Allen Place and Lincoln Street from Washington Street to Affleck Street, plus about a half block west on Allen Place and a few on Affleck and Broad Streets. Most homes are 1.5 to 3 stories tall and contain one to three units, mostly wood-frame with a few brick buildings. Some houses were built side-by-side to save money.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

History: Frog Hollow was farmland until the mid-1800s. Development along Broad Street and between Madison and Vernon Streets began in the late 19th century, with a major building push in the 1890s and another in the 1910s. The residents were mainly lower- to middle-income white-collar workers in Hartford’s factories, shops, and the growing insurance industry.