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15 and 16th Historic Stop On Main Street

Downtown Middletown

Bill Maune, Community Contributor

Posted Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 2:29 pm ET|Updated Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 1:06 pm ET

420 To 428 Main St.

At 428-432 Main Street
in Middletown is an Art Deco building that was built as a Woolworth’s store (F.W. Woolworth Co.) in 1939. An horrific tragedy took place in 1989, when a 9-year old girl, having walked out of the store during a street fair with her mother and sister, was fatally stabbed by a mental patient from the Connecticut Valley Hospital, a psychiatric institute in Middletown. The Woolworth’s store closed in late 1993 and the building is now home to Irreplaceable Artifacts.
Information From Images Of America Middletown and Historic Buildings of Connecticut
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