21 July 2008, 1:13 pm
A century ago, a rather plain brick storefront at the corner of Asylum and Trumbull streets in downtown Hartford was dressed up with a decorative, two-story, cast-iron storefront.The improvement, made in 1896, opened up broad display windows and let sunlight flood into the retail space that was occupied for decades by clothier Stackpole, Moore & Tryon.Now the historic building, owned by the same family since it was built in 1850s and passed down through seven generations, is recapturing some of that old magic.... read more