Beehive Bridge
Svigals + Partners, 2019
New Britain
Doughboy Ready
John Paulding, 1927
East Hartford
Puerto Rican Family Migration Monument
José Buscaglia-Guillermety, 2009
Hartford
Black Lives Matter Mural Hartford (2020)
BLM 860 – Black Lives Matter 860, 2020
Hartford
Kensington Civil War Soldiers Monument Obelisk
Nelson Augustus Moore, 1863
Berlin
Stone Field, 1977
Carl Andre, 1977
Hartford
Stegosaurus, 1973
Alexander Calder, 1973
Hartford
Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford
Ithiel Town, 1829
Hartford
Doctor Gallaudet and His First Deaf Mute Pupil
Daniel Chester French, 1889
West Hartford
Beehive Bridge, Svigals + Partners, 2019
This bridge has become an emblematic focal point of a frequently trafficked drive in New Britain, Connecticut. Learn more about the New Britain Beehive Bridge.
- Architecture
- New Britain
Doughboy Ready, John Paulding, 1927
East Hartford's "Doughboy Ready" was dedicated in 1929 to honor soldiers who fought in World War I (1917-1918).
- Sculpture
- East Hartford
Puerto Rican Family Migration Monument, José Buscaglia-Guillermety, 2009
Discover this bronze sculpture in Hartford, CT, celebrating Puerto Rican migrant families in the continental United States
- Sculpture
- Hartford
Black Lives Matter Mural Hartford (2020), BLM 860 – Black Lives Matter 860, 2020
The Hartford Black Lives Matter street painting was created on July 26, 2020 as part of the nationwide protest movement “Black Lives Matter” that erupted following the May 25, 2020 strangulation of George Floyd in Minneapolis by police officer Derek Chauvin. The street art mural was over one hundred feet long, and was painted on the surface of Trinity Street in Bushnell Park within sight of the Connecticut State Capitol. The BLM 860 version of 2020 was replaced in 2023 when Trinity Street was repaved.
- Painting
- Street Art
- Hartford
Kensington Civil War Soldiers Monument Obelisk, Nelson Augustus Moore, 1863
View the first civil war monument erected in Connecticut, created by Nelson Augustus Moore
- Sculpture
- Historic Marker
- Berlin
Stone Field, 1977, Carl Andre, 1977
Stone Field by Carl Andre was inspired by monoliths in Great Britain and across the street in Center Church Cemetery. The thirty six boulders are made of sandstone, brownstone, granite, schist, gneiss, basalt, and serpentine. They are arranged in a way so that no stone looks like the stone lying next to it.
- Sculpture
- Hartford
Stegosaurus, 1973, Alexander Calder, 1973
Alexander Calder’s painted steel sculpture from 1973, Stegosaurus, stands at the Burr Mall in between the Wadsworth Atheneum and City Hall in downtown Hartford. The work is a culmination of a sixty-six year project that began with a grant to the city of Hartford by Ella Burr McManus to build a memorial for her father.
- Sculpture
- Hartford
Christ Church Cathedral, Hartford, Ithiel Town, 1829
Christ Church Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Archdiocese of Connecticut. The building is situated at 955 Main Street, Hartford. The cathedral itself is an historic gothic revival design of the 1820’s by the architect Ithiel Town, who also designed the original castellated Wadsworth Atheneum.
- Architecture
- Hartford
Doctor Gallaudet and His First Deaf Mute Pupil, Daniel Chester French, 1889
Daniel Chester French's 1924 sculpture of Doctor Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was commissioned by the National Association for the Deaf to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the American School for the Deaf. The West Hartford monument is a second casting of French's 1889 bronze original which is at Gallaudet College in Washington D.C.
- Sculpture
- West Hartford
