Lost Hartford: W. T. Grant, Honiss Oyster House, United States Hotel, Regal Theater and more

In this video I talk about a section of State Street north of the Old State House in Hartford, Connecticut. In the nineteenth century this was the location of the popular United States Hotel. The hotel would be replaced by The First National Bank building, the W. T. Grant store and the Regal Theatre. These were all torn down to make way for the State House Square development in the 1980s. The famed Honiss Oyster House, the origins of which went back to 1845, was located in the basement of the hotel and later the Grant’s store before it closed in 1982. #danielsternervideos ******** Links to some of the images used in this video: United States Hotel and Honiss Oyster House, State Street, Hartford: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:13678 United States Hotel, Hartford, Conn.: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object... View of the United States Hotel, State Street, Hartford: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object... Employees in front of Honiss Oyster House, State Street, Hartford: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object... Cracker Truck and Employees in Front of Honiss Oyster House: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object... Businesses on Central Row, Hartford: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object... Interior of Honiss Oyster House, 30 State Street, Hartford: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object... Known from Coast to Coast Honiss's Seafood Specialists: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object... Corner of Main and State Streets, Hartford: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object... Corner of Main and State Streets, Hartford: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object... State Street, Looking East towards Constitution Plaza, Hartford: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object... Timothy Keating on State Street, Hartford: https://digitalcatalog.chs.org/island... State Street, City Hall Market, Hartford: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/50002:747 United States Hotel: http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:720... 'Toward America for Relief', c. 1920-21: https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collectio... ******** Check out my links on Linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielsterner Buy my book “A Guide to Historic Hartford, Connecticut”: https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Historic... Buy my book “Vanished Downtown Hartford”: https://www.amazon.com/Vanished-Downt... Please visit Historic Buildings of Connecticut: http://historicbuildingsct.com/ Please visit my personal website: https://danielsterner.com/ Follow me on Facebook:   / historic-buildings-of-connecticut-15821352...   Follow me on Instagram:   / ctbuildings   Follow me on Twitter:   / historicbldct   Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/danielsterner