164 Whitney St Unit 3RD

About This Property

Gorgeous Kitchen: Lot of Light, spacious family room, updated 3 bedrooms, 1-bathroom apartment in Historic West End of Hartford on third floor, available now. Close to nightlife, restaurants, Elisabeth Park, 3 family building, no pets,on site management. plus: gas and electric. Off street parking inclucing garage. Call Marty at 860-985-0833 ------------------- large 1,600 Sq. Ft high ceilings, 1/2 block from Elizabeth Park, University of Hartford and U-Conn Law School, refinished Hardwood floors lots of light, oversize living room 18" x 23" with wall of glass door bookshelves, each bedroom has full size closet and one bedroom has walk in closet. Remodeled Bathroom has new ceramic tile shower and separate full-size cast iron bath tub and full-length granite vanity and mirror, Remodeled Eat in stainless steel Kitchen with convection oven, GE Microwave, refrigerator with bottom freezer, Bosch dishwasher and maple wood self-closing cabinets, In Apartment laundry room with LG front load washer and dryer, includes furniture for one bedroom, rear heated porch and off street parking and secure Garage. New gas hot water heating system. West End of Hartford West End North of Farmington Ave is only three blocks long, but it seems nearly every Hartford area native had a relative who lived in West End at one time over its nearly 140 years. The houses are eclectic Victorian. They attract eclectic owners, too. The area is charming and vigorous at the same time. Close enough to Farmington Avenue to walk when we want something. We're right between the Seminary-Law School-Historical Society-U Hartford complexes, which are good for the mind, and Elizabeth Park which is good for the soul. It's easy to get anywhere from here - and easy to get exposure to ideas and activities. In the past it has been easy to: • take a business course at U of H's annex, • attend an author's lecture at the Harriet Beecher Stowe house, • enjoy Wednesday eves in winter, hearing from gardening experts at Elizabeth Park, • Summertime concerts and movies in Elizabeth Park • take an internet marketing course at the library, etc, etc. Others commuted a great distance to fit these into their schedules, or just couldn't find the time, or more likely never knew about them. Living here, you hear more about what's going on, and then it's really a matter of swinging by. In a age when most are isolated from their neighbors and pressed for time, we have the gift of being in the center of everything, including a community. Neighborhood made up of Professors from our surrounding colleges, doctors, lawyers, businesspeople, LBGH community, students from U of Hartford and CT Law School, etc,etc Imagine it’s 1869- It has been only four years since the Civil War. Mark Twain won’t build his magnificent home on Farmington Ave. for another 4 years. There is no neighborhood in the West End. It's all farmland west of the Park River, divided only by the major routes west and north: Farmington, Asylum, Albany and Bloomfield avenues. Sisson Ave. and Prospect St. exist, too. Only 29 families live along these roads in the neighborhood. Picture yourself standing at Farmington Ave. and the Park River. The horse-drawn trolley, one of the first in the nation, only runs out Asylum Ave. as far as Woodland Street. You had to walk the rest of the way through the mud. You are standing on a covered wooden bridge over the Park River. As you look toward Prospect there are only 4 homes on the north side of the street and another five on the south. All of them use well water, despite the fact that the water supply for the whole city runs beneath Farmington Ave. But this year, Farmington Ave. will become an official city street, beginning to provide water and sewer service along the Avenue. Next year the first home will be built north of Farmington Ave. – Kenyon's farmhouse up a path from developer Eugene Kenyon's estate (at 96 Kenyon). Another will be built across the street a few years later. In 1871, the City replaces the covered wooden bridge over the Park River with a stone bridge, costing $28,000. Within a year, there is horse trolley service out Farmington Ave. Three Second Empire style homes go up on Sherman St. in 1877. However, the economic downturns of the mid-1870's hit and Eugene Kenyon goes broke. There is no real development in the West End for another 10 years. Fast Forward: The Early Decades in the West End In 1899, the West End was the fashionable place to build. Throughout the twenties and thirties sophisticates were on the cutting edge (Chic Austin built his home here). During World War II in the 1940s and into the 1950s, groups of young engineers from Pratt and Whitney, just married, lived in the West End in rooming houses and got on the company van to get to work. Young singles lived in Little Hollywood and had a reputation for having fun. In the 1960s, families had grown up and out, leaving their older parents in the family homestead. By the end of the 1960's, some of these big houses became crash pads for hippies. The 1970's in the West End In the 1970s, a handful of young couples - "urban pioneers" bucking suburban sprawl bought neglected Victorians at bargain prices and taught each other how to renovate "your Victorian house in the city". The Old House Journal was the renovator's bible. Activists at heart, they knew the tools of organizing. Nearly everyone had a story of having to insist that real estate agents show them property in the city. Lenders and insurers were accused of red-lining the city by refusing to make loans or insure property. The West End Civic Association (WECA) got a reputation for knowing the nuances of the zoning code and turning out votes. There were living room concerts, the West End players, a craft group that specialized in jug wine, a monthly neighborhood newspaper, The Westender, and great parties at the drop of a hat. Everyone sent their preschoolers to Knight Hall at the Seminary (pre-Law School) and Noah Webster School. The neighborhood moms published Fun Spots - a book of day excursions to take the kids. WENDCO incorporated as a non-profit organization and began planning to save the Colonial Theater. Federal funds were found to landscape and plant trees on Farmington Avenue. "At Home in Hartford" buses brought thousands of suburbanites on house tours all over the city. First it was one house per block bought by a renovator, then two, then three. Each paint job was celebrated, and each young couple was added to the party list. Moms bonded through playgroups, The West End book group held its first meeting. And a neighbor's four year old became a plaintiff in Sheff v O'Neil, Connecticut's landmark school desegregation case. By the early 1980's the West End had "turned around". Housing prices jumped - the West End was hot. Suddenly, there were neighbors here you had never met. This activism is the legacy of today's West End. The West End Now Thirty-five years later the West End flourishes. The West End Civic Association (WECA) has been a bulwark of action throughout the decades - advocating for the community, keeping us vital and strong. The trees on the Avenue now tower over the street,. New people are still discovering the neighborhood. The Farmington Avenue Alliance has completed plans for improving the streetscape for all of the Avenue, and the Farmington Avenue Business District (FABD) has championed a Hartford Business Improvement District (BID) along Farmington Avenue in Asylum Hill and all of downtown. There's a new West End Community Center with services and programming for kids and adults. The book group, the craft group and the playgroup all are still going strong, even though the babies are all grown up. We still party - the hardest ticket to get in town is for WECA's annual progressive dinner and fundraiser: West End Dine Around.... The West End is the essence of a g

164 Whitney St is an apartment community located in Hartford County and the 06105 ZIP Code.