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Frog Hollow, Hartford, Connecticut

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schools, churches, and commercial properties were developed in large numbers. Much of this housing was multi-unit housing, with a locally distinctive "perfect six" wood-frame building, three stories in height with two units per story, coming to typify the housing built at that time. A significant number of
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hoped to attract new merchants looking to expand their businesses into Hartford and in 2005, plans were first floated to spend $ 64 million on a project at the intersection of Park Street and Main Street. Original plans included two luxury condo towers, some retail, and a massive main square—or Plaza
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Residential construction in Frog Hollow began around 1850, with the construction of Greek Revival houses along Grand Street, and continued with Italianate houses, including a number of duplexes, along Affleck Street. The major building boom in the area took place between 1890 and 1910, when houses,
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The bicycle boom was short-lived, peaking near the turn of the century when more and more consumers craved individual automobile travel, and Pope's company suffered financially from over-production amidst falling demand. In an effort to save his business, Pope opened a Motor Carriage Department and
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bought patent rights for bicycle production in the United States. Wanting to contract out his first order, however, Pope approached George Fairfield of Hartford, and the Weed Sewing Machine Company produced Pope's first run of bicycles in 1878. Bicycles proved to be a huge commercial success and
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turned out electric carriages, beginning with the "Mark III" in 1897. Pope's venture might have made Hartford the capital of the automobile industry were it not for the ascendency of Henry Ford and a series of pitfalls and patent struggles that outlived Pope himself.
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production in the Weed factory expanded, with Weed making every part but the tires, and by 1890, demand for bicycles overshadowed the failing sewing machine market. That year, Pope bought the Weed factory, took over as its president, and renamed it the
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After his business failed, Pope donated a 75-acre (300,000 m) parcel park to provide recreational facilities for neighborhood families. Today, the park provides recreational facilities for neighborhood families.
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Frog Hollow takes its name from the marshy conditions in the low land near what is now the corner of Broad and Ward streets. Most of the area was farmland until 1852 when the
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Park Street has also been called "New England's Spanish Main Street" because of the predominantly Puerto Rican population and merchants. Former Hartford Mayor
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constructed a factory, beginning the area's transformation into a major industrial area. Although not the first factory to be situated along now-buried
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Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines: The Life and Times of a Bicycle Tycoon Turned Automotive Pioneer
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Mayor, as it came to be known. The plan later got smaller in size, and was eventually shelved entirely during the
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Roughly bounded by Park River, Capitol Ave., Oak, Washington, and Madison Sts. and Park Ter.,
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The neighborhood is home to Hartford Superior Court, Hartford Community Court, Family Court,
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Inspired by a British-made, high-wheel bicycle, or velocipede, he saw at the
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut
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Flayderman's Guide to Antique American Firearms and Their Values
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National Register of Historic Places in Hartford, Connecticut
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Frog Hollow, Hartford, Connecticut is located in Connecticut
Connecticut
Frog Hollow, Hartford, Connecticut is located in the United States
Hartford, Connecticut
41°45′22.08″N 72°41′13.51″W / 41.7561333°N 72.6870861°W / 41.7561333; -72.6870861
Queen Anne
Italianate
Greek Revival
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84001005
neighborhoods of Hartford, Connecticut
Interstate 84
National Register of Historic Places
Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company
Park River
Colt Armory
Coltsville
1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition
Albert Pope
Pope Manufacturing Company
Eddie Perez
Great Recession
Trinity College
The Learning Corridor
Hartford Hospital
Connecticut Children's Medical Center
triple deckers

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