Department Store Historic District
Department Store Historic District | |
Cheney Building | |
| Location | 884--956 Main St. and 36 Talcott St., Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Coordinates | 41°46′5″N 72°40′22″W / 41.76806°N 72.67278°W |
| Area | 5 acres (2.0 ha) |
| Built | 1876 |
| Architect | Isaac A. Allen Jr.; Henry Hobson Richardson; Cass Gilbert |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival, Renaissance, Romanesque |
| MPS | Hartford Downtown MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 95000284 |
| Added to NRHP | March 23, 1995 |
The Department Store Historic District is a historic district in the Downtown Hartford neighborhood of the city of Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
It is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) area that, in 1995, included three contributing buildings, one other contributing structure, and one contributing object. It includes a building that is separately listed on the NRHP: the Cheney Building which is also known as the Brown Thomson Building.
The district is significant because of the important economic role of the three department stores in the district.