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House at 36 Forest Street

House at 36 Forest Street
An intricate three-story beige wooden house with red trim, with snow on the porch roof and the front lawn, with a setting sun lighting the upper stories from the right. It has windows of different shapes and sizes. A front porch is on the right half of the first story, with a triangular projection on the left with a prominent "36" in the center. Another triangular section projects from the left hand side of the roof, with a smaller projection with a segmented, more curvilinear roofline to its right. A brick building is visible on the left; in the left front of the yard is an old horse-drawn carriage.
West (front) elevation, 2009, with surrey
A map of Connecticut showing county boundaries and major rivers. It has a red dot at about the location of the city of Hartford in the north central portion of the state
A map of Connecticut showing county boundaries and major rivers. It has a red dot at about the location of the city of Hartford in the north central portion of the state
Location within Connecticut
Location Hartford, CT
Coordinates 41°45′52″N 72°41′59″W / 41.76444°N 72.69972°W / 41.76444; -72.69972Coordinates: 41°45′52″N 72°41′59″W / 41.76444°N 72.69972°W / 41.76444; -72.69972
Area 16,000 square feet (1,500 m2)
Built ca. 1885
Architectural style Shingle Style
MPS Asylum Hill MRA
NRHP reference # 83001261
Added to NRHP February 25, 1983

The house at 36 Forest Street, sometimes called the Burton House in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is a wooden Shingle Style structure built in the late 19th century and largely intact today. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Originally it was built on land that had been transferred to a local insurance company by developers of the surrounding affluent Nook Farm neighborhood. They had been unable to make their mortgage payments, and so the lot was subdivided from one of their own properties. Later it was sold to one of the wealthy families that first settled the Asylum Hill neighborhood of Hartford. Most of the other houses from that time on Forest Street have been demolished to clear the way for newer construction, primarily apartment buildings. It is one of the few 19th-century houses left on the street. Currently it is rented out as apartments.

The house is located on the east side of the street, roughly 500 feet (150 m) north of the intersection with Hawthorn Street and a thousand feet north of the onramps over Forest from West Boulevard to the Interstate 84/U.S. Route 6 freeway. The house of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe, also listed on the Register, is a similar distance to the north along the east side of Forest. Mark Twain's house for much of his later life, now a National Historic Landmark, is on the main street of the area, Farmington Avenue, two blocks away in the area now designated the Nook Farm and Woodland Street District.


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