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Bequest of Mrs. Joan Morris in memory of her husband Vincent E. Morris, 1994.249.0  Photograph …
Hartford Train Station
Bequest of Mrs. Joan Morris in memory of her husband Vincent E. Morris, 1994.249.0 Photograph by David Stansbury © 2013 Connecticut Museum of Culture and History

Hartford Train Station

Dateafter 1843
MediumPainting; oil on canvas in gilt wood frame
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (stretcher height x width): 19 3/4 x 30in. (50.2 x 76.2cm)
Frame (height x width x depth): 24 1/4 x 34 1/4 x 1 7/8in. (61.6 x 87 x 4.8cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Joan Morris in memory of her husband Vincent E. Morris
DescriptionA steam locomotive is emerging from between the two towers of a Romanesque revival style railroad station. Men and women and a stage coach are on the road at the right. Trees are at the far right. A large house is behind a fence on a grassy bank in the left background.
Object number1994.249.0
NotesSubject Note: The painting shows the first Union Station, erected in 1843. It is on the same site as the present (2014) building, erected in 1889.
On View
Not on view
Gift of Lena Cadwalader Evans, 1936.28.1  Photograph by David Stansbury  © 2013 Connecticut Mus…
Karl Gildemeister
1850
Gift of the estate of Adele R. Hough, 1970.24.1  Photograph by David Stansbury  © 2013 The Conn…
Unknown
before 1900
Gift of Miss Helen E. Royce, 1953.73.2  Photograph by David Stansbury  © 2013 The Connecticut H…
Henrik Hillbom
before 1925
Gift of Sarah S. Holcombe, 1946.5.0  Photograph by David Stansbury  © 2013 The Connecticut Hist…
Aage Peter Marinus Moll
before 1945
Gift of William Lamson Warren, 1957.27.1  Photograph by David Stansbury  © 2013 The Connecticut…
Unknown
about 1870
Bequest of Mrs. J. Edward Grinfield-Coxwell, 1969.17.5  Photograph by David Stansbury  © 2013 T…
Nelson Augustus Moore
1862
Gift of Newton C. Brainard, 1956.1.1  Photograph by David Stansbury.  © 2009 The Connecticut Hi…
Charles De Wolf Brownell
1857
Museum purchase, 1973.99.1  Photograph by David Stansbury  © 2013 The Connecticut Historical So…
Edwin Augustus Moore
1888
Gift of Mrs. Charles Floyer Pond, 1870.3.0  Photograph by David Stansbury © 2012 Connecticut Mu…
Unknown
1824
Gift of John Sage Morgan, 1952.95.1  © 2011 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Elijah Chapman Kellogg
about 1855