Hartford's Lost Castle

This video is about the James Goodwin House, also known as Woodlands and as the Goodwin Castle. Built in 1871, it stood near the intersection of Asylum Avenue and Woodland Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Once the largest private home in the state, it was torn down in 1940.

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The Chuboda Photographs of the Goodwin Castle are at the Connecticut Historical Society:
http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object...

In the video I also show a c. 1900 photograph of the house, also from the Connecticut Historical Society:
http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:14961

There’s also a photograph of the Goodwin Tombstone at Cedar Hill Cemetery from the Connecticut Historical Society: http://emuseum.chs.org/emuseum/object...

The photograph of the Twitchell House (accession number 2022.1.8) is also from the Connecticut Historical Society and is duplicated in Steve Courtney’s books Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain's Closest Friend and Mark Twain’s Hartford.

In the video I show a streoview of the house from the collections of the New York Public Library:
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/i...

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