DOWNTOWN MIDDLETOWN TODAY:
WT Grant Today:
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. From http://historicbuildingsct.com
”The oldest persons now living who remember anything about the location of the office state that the earliest place they can remember is the store now occupied by G. E. BURR, on the east side of Main street (No. 100)“. This certainly is a very old building, having a square roof and dormer windows of an ancient period. From this building it was removed to the brick building on the northwest corner of Washington and Main streets, in which the office continued until the present building was ready for occupancy in 1834. From: The History of Middlesex County 1635-1885 J. H. Beers & Co.
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