Coltsville Timeline

• Built in 1855
• Italianate style
• Features a five-story tower
• Designated National Historic Landmark (NHL) in 1966
• Privately owned retirement home

Image from Coltsville Special Resource Study (Source 1)

• New Office building erected 1941

• June 16, 1936
• Corner of Huyshope Avenue and Sequassen Street

Church of the Good Shepherd and Caldwell H. Colt Memorial Parish House

• 155 Wyllys Street, Hartford, Connecticut
• Detailed description at NPS (link no longer works pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/75001925.pdf)
• Edward Tuckerman Potter's Italianate design
• The Church of the Good Shepherd and Caldwell H. Colt Memorial Parish House were designed by the architect Edward Tuckerman Potter, and built by Mrs. Colt as a memorial to her deceased husband and their eldest son.
• Intended to serve the spiritual needs of the Colt workers; open to all.

• Boarding house, probably just for Colt's employees.
• Corner of Charter Oak Avenue and Vredendale Avenue
• Erected in 1855
• Demolished in 1929

• Built circa 1871
• Located in Colt Meadows
• Stood on Charter Oak Avenue near the corner of Huyshope Avenue, near the Memorial Church of the Good Shepherd
• Burned to the ground December 6, 1910

The Library of Congress has resources in several collections. These are just a few examples.

Library of Congress (LOC) Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey