Buckingham Square Historic District in Connecticut

The district is centered around Buckingham Square, laid out in 1830 on the site of an early colonial-era church. It includes a concentration of well-preserved Victorian architecture from the 1860s to 1890s and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, with a slight enlargement in 1982.

Main and Buckingham Streets appeared on maps as early as 1640. The area was part of Hartford's earliest settlement and was once the site of a church built in 1670 by congregants who split from the city's First Congregational Church. When that church was demolished in the early 19th century, its site became Buckingham Park.

The core of the historic district consists of two city blocks, bounded on the east by Main Street, the north by Capitol Avenue, the west by Hudson Street, and the south by Buckingham Street. It extends to include buildings between Capitol Avenue and Linden Place, and a portion of the south side of Buckingham between John and Hudson Streets. The buildings are stylistically diverse, featuring early Italianate buildings and later constructions in the Second Empire, Romanesque, and Gothic Revival styles.

Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons