Glastonbury Historic District
The Glastonbury Historic District encompasses a streetscape dating to the 17th century, along Main Street from Hebron Avenue to Talcott Road in Glastonbury, Connecticut.
The Glastonbury Historic District encompasses a streetscape dating to the 17th century, along Main Street from Hebron Avenue to Talcott Road in Glastonbury, Connecticut. In addition to a significant number of 17th and 18th-century houses, it shows the architectural development of the town over time, with buildings spanning three centuries in construction dates. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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Worth seeing in and around Glastonbury Historic District
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01First Church of Christ, Wethersfield
The First Church of Christ, Wethersfield, is an American Colonial Era church located in the Old Wethersfield Historic District of Wethersfield, Connecticut. The congregation was founded in 1635, and the cemetery dates from the 1600s, but the current Georgian-style, brick meetinghouse, with its distinctive white steeple, was built in 1761.
3.7 km · church building in Connecticut, United States of America · Wikipedia - 02Joseph Webb House
The Joseph Webb House is a historic Georgian-style house at 211 Main Street in Wethersfield, Connecticut. It was designated a National Historic Landmark for its significance as the location of the five-day military conference between George Washington and French commander Rochambeau in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War that preceded the Siege of Yorktown, the last major battle of the war.
3.8 km · historic house in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 03Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum
The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, located in Wethersfield, Connecticut, is owned and operated by the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Connecticut. The museum features three 18th-century houses that sit on their original sites in the center of Old Wethersfield: the 1752 Joseph Webb House, the 1769 Silas Deane House and the 1789 Isaac Stevens House.
3.8 km · museum in Wethersfield, Connecticut · Wikipedia - 04Welles-Shipman-Ward House
The Welles-Shipman-Ward House is a historic house museum at 972 Main Street in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. Built in 1755, it is a well-preserved example of Georgian architecture, with the largest period fireplace in Connecticut.
3.8 km · house in Glastonbury, Connecticut · Wikipedia - 05Buttolph-Williams House
The Buttolph–Williams House is a historic house museum at 249 Broad Street in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Built in 1711, it is one of the oldest surviving houses in the town.
3.6 km · historic house in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 06Silas Deane House
The Silas Deane House is a historic house museum at 203 Main Street in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Built in 1773, this National Historic Landmark was the home of Silas Deane, the first foreign diplomat for the United States.
3.8 km · house · Wikipedia - 07William H. Putnam Memorial Bridge
The Putnam Bridge is a bridge in the state of Connecticut carrying the Route 3 freeway over the Connecticut River, connecting Interstate 91 in Wethersfield and Route 2 in Glastonbury. It is the southernmost crossing of the Connecticut River in the Hartford Area and carries an average of 50,800 vehicles per day.[1] The bridge was built in the late 1950s as part of the Route 3 freeway between Interstate 91 and Route 2.
2.9 km · bridge in United States of America · Wikipedia - 08Wethersfield Village Cemetery
Old Wethersfield Village Cemetery is a historic burying ground in Wethersfield, Connecticut, United States, which was established in 1638. It is the second-oldest burial ground in the state.
3.5 km · cemetery in Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA · Wikipedia - 09John Hollister House
The John Hollister House is a historic house at 14 Tryon Street in the South Glastonbury village of Glastonbury, Connecticut. Built about 1675, it is the town's oldest surviving colonial structure, built by one of its early settlers.
4 km · historic house in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 10Gideon Welles House
The Gideon Welles House is a historic house at 17 Hebron Avenue in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Built in 1783, it was home to generations of the locally prominent Welles family, whose most famous member was Gideon Welles, the United States Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
1.1 km · house in Glastonbury, Connecticut · Wikipedia
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Getting to Glastonbury Historic District
- Airports
- Bradley (BDL), 27 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 98 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 147 km
- Providence/Warwick → Glastonbury Historic District92 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · $10–14
- New York → Glastonbury Historic District161 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · $15–20
- Boston → Glastonbury Historic District147 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · $13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Glastonbury Historic District
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Glastonbury Historic District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inSikorsky Mem'l Airport () in Stratford is a private aircraft charter service based there.
- Get inMeriden Airport in Meriden provides private air charter.
- Get inThe Bridgeport-Port Jefferson Ferry crosses Long Island Sound daily between Port Jefferson, Long Island and Bridgeport, CT.
- Get inCross Sound Ferry connects New London, CT and Orient Point, NY (the easternmost tip of Long Island's North Fork.) It also carries cars and passengers.
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