Image: Middletown, CT - 179 Main St 01
Description: Buildings on the west side of Main Street, Middletown, Connecticut, USA. From left to right: (partly visible at left) 171 Main Street, former site of Hall House. Now part of Middlesex Plaza. I'm not sure if any of what is visible in back is old. There might be part of the former Middlesex Opera House/Middlesex Theater, 179 Main Street (rear), designed by Francis H. Kimball and built 1892 behind Middlesex Assurance Co. 179 Main Street, former Middlesex Assurance Co., built 1867, now part of Middlesex Plaza 191-195 Main Street. At least part of this building dates from 1835, but according to the NRHP nomination "a brick fire wall down the center of the building, suggest[s] the possibility that originally it was one-half its present size... [B]y 1856 both halves were in place, but as a two and one-half story building with gable roof... The full third story was added c. 1891, along with a new front facade... All of these are contributing properties of the Metro South Historic District, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Title: Middletown, CT - 179 Main St 01
Credit: Photo by Joe Mabel
Author: Joe Mabel
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