In 1948, a
company from Boston, Tichnor Quality Views,
published a wallet of colorized postcard views
of Willimantic, Coventry and the University of
Connecticut printed on linen-style paper. They
provide a valuable
historical document of life in northeast Connecticut more than seventy
years ago. |
 TThe
front cover of the folder features the Windham
Town Hall. |
The back cover
provides Greetings from Willimantic. |
The Nathan Hale
Hotel was built in 1925, and was one of the
finest hotels in eastern Connecticut. It lost
its popularity after World War Two because of
the advent of motor hotels, and the lack of
parking spaces downtown. |
The Connecticut State
Armory on Pleasant Street, built in 1912 |
The Nathan Hale
birthplace in Coventry. Captain Hale was hung by
the British as a spy in the Revolutionary War,
and is famed for saying that he regretted having
only one life to give for his country. |
The Willimantic Post
Office was built in 1911, and now serves as a
brew pub and restaurant, the Main Street Cafe. |
The 1870 Congregational Church on Valley Street
pictured with its ivy
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laden east
wall. The ivy had to be removed as it
was destroying the brickwork. Note the
small spire, replaced after the 1938
hurricane destroyed the original spire.
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Windham High School
dates from 1913, and became a Middle School
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The 1876 St. Josephs
Roman Catholic Church without its spire,
destroyed in the 1938 hurricane.
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The original Windham
Memorial Hospital, built in the 1930s and
greatly expanded since. |
St. Mary's Church
Roman Catholic Church, built in 1903 for the
city's growing French Canadian population. Its
ornate spires were replaced in 1956. |
Looking west up Main
Street from Lincoln Square. |
The Willimantic River, looking west from the
footbridge.
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The famous American
Thread bridge welcomed visitors to Willimantic
from 1917 until 1998. |
The University of
Connecticut campus at Storrs pictured shortly
after its postwar landscaping project. |
The Willimantic Country Club, the headquarters
of the Willimantic Golf Club. |
The University of
Connecticut's Wilbur Cross Library was replaced
by the Homer Babbidge Library in 1978, but this
fine building still dominates the campus. |
Following are other postcards of
Willimantic thar are
not part of the previous series...... |
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