Welcome to Thursday Doors! This is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week and then share a link to your post in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). If you like, you can add our badge to your post.
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Earlier this week, I had to take my car in for service. I was trying to avoid the highway on my way home because they’ve started some construction projects. Lucky me, they were working on the roads on the back way home, too.
I’ve shared doors from East Hartford before, but mostly from a different perspective. I don’t think I’ve shared all of these because I was on some streets that weren’t at all familiar. I like East Hartford because they have parking lanes on all the major streets which gave me lots of opportunities to pull over and take a picture.
One building I know I have shared before is the Comstock Building. I’ve taken pictures before, but always while parked across the street from it. One of those photos is my fetured photo today. The detour brought me down a side street almost directly across from the building, so I was able to get a nice view of it. I looked up a little history about it.
Located at 1175 (1171-1177) Main Street in East Hartford is Comstock Hall, built in 1899 to house a theater (later converted to a roller-skating rink and then demolished) and offices. The classically proportioned building was constructed by Lewis Comstock, a railroad engineer and descendant of an old East Hartford family. In 1926, Comstock erected an adjoining building to the south (1165-1169 Main Street, aka 2 Orchard Street). The two buildings are joined by a continuous first-floor storefront cornice, but the 1899 structure is taller and has a more elaborate classical revival design.
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