Sigourney Square District
The Sigourney Square District is a historic neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut, part of the Asylum Hill area. It sits roughly between Garden, Ashley, and Woodland Streets, with the northern edge along railroad tracks north of Sargeant Street. The district covers about 45 acres and includes 169 primary buildings, most of them wood-frame, two-story houses for one or two families. The buildings are mainly wood or brick with Queen Anne features, and there are ten larger apartment blocks, plus a church and two small commercial buildings.
Most of the district was built in the 1890s as a middle-class residential area. Development began in 1891 when Frederick Mahl built ten Queen Anne houses on Ashley Street, and the area was largely complete by 1900.
Historically, the area around Sigourney Square was Hartford’s town farm in the mid-1800s, providing housing and support for indigent residents. As roads were built in the late 19th century, the farm shrank and was closed in 1896. Part of the land became Sigourney Square Park, laid out by landscape architect J. Alex McClunie.
The Sigourney Square District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It was enlarged in 1983 to include more houses on the east side of Garden Street (these were later demolished) and again in 2011 to include 207 Garden Street, a brick mixed-use block.
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