Dead Homes in the Gravestone Jumble of Hartford's Asylum Hill

In the good old days, Marshall Jewell and James Niles owned the area that later became the Laurel-Marshall Streets District in Hartford, Connecticut. Before the mid-19th century, it was just farmland. But post Jewell's passing in 1883, the district south of Niles Street and west of Imlay Street bloomed with Queen Anne architecture. Humble wood-frame houses dotted Laurel and Marshall Streets. Around the turn of the 20th century, the region from Farmington Avenue to Case Street took a graceful boost. The west side of Marshall Street took the hardest hits, with several houses falling apart and miraculously reincarnating as modern apartment blocks. The historic district encircles the buildings on Laurel and Marshall Streets between Niles and Case Streets, and the rowhouses on Imlay Street.

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