South End, CT

Hartford

Popular places to visit

Mark Twain House featuring a house and heritage architecture

Mark Twain House & Museum

You can browse the exhibits at Mark Twain House & Museum, a museum with a story of its own, during your travels to Hartford. Experience the area's acclaimed theater scene and great live music.

Mark Twain House & Museum
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts which includes interior views

Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

Get tickets for a show at Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, a theater with a story to tell in Hartford. Experience the area's entertainment choices and great live music.

Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
Bushnell Park featuring a garden, heritage architecture and a castle

Bushnell Park

After visiting Bushnell Park, make a plan to see the other sights and activities in Hartford. Experience the area's great live music and acclaimed theater scene.

Bushnell Park
Connecticut Science Center which includes interior views as well as children

Connecticut Science Center

You can browse the exhibits at Connecticut Science Center, a museum with a story of its own, during your trip to Hartford. Experience the area's entertainment choices and great live music.

Connecticut Science Center
Connecticut State Capital

Connecticut State Capital

After visiting Connecticut State Capital, make a plan to see the other sights and activities in Hartford. Experience the area's great live music or attend a sporting event.

Connecticut State Capital
The Wadsworth Atheneum is an art museum located in Hartford, Connecticut.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

You can browse the exhibits at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, a museum with a story of its own, during your travels to Hartford. Experience the area's entertainment choices and great live music.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Things to do

Hartford Bar Hunt: Hartford Party

Hartford Bar Hunt: Hartford Party

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Side view of the beautiful memorial to the first dentist to use nitrous oxide— he had quite a tragic tale of addiction, violence, and suicide so check out the audio tour!

South West

While South West might not have many sights to explore, venturing just a little farther will lead you to top things to see and do like Webster Theater and Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts.

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Barry Square

If you're spending some time in Barry Square, Webster Theater and Assaiante Tennis Center are top sights worth seeing.

Barry Square
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South Meadows

3.5/5(87 area reviews)

Visitors to South Meadows like its coffeehouses and seafood restaurants, and Connecticut River is a sight worth a stop.

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Behind the Rocks

When in Behind the Rocks, you can plan a visit to Webster Theater and Mark Twain House & Museum, some noteworthy sights in the nearby area.

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South Green

3/5(2 area reviews)

Though South Green might not have many top sights, you can venture to the surrounding area to see attractions like Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and Hartford City Hall.

South Green
Underneath that blue dome lies the east armory of a factory once owned by a man who changed American history, the innovator of the revolver, Samuel Colt. Sprawling around the crumbling red brickwork of the old Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, once the largest private armory in the world, are the remnants of Coltsville, the utopian village he built for his workers. A model of 19th century industrial paternalism, Coltsville included a church, a social hall for dances and lectures, workers’ housing, a giant landscaped park home to deer and peacocks, sculpted botanical gardens, and thousands of feet of greenhouses filled with tropical fruit and flowers. Samuel Colt felt such responsibility for the welfare of his workers outside the factory that he went so far as to build Potsdam Village, to replicate the feel of the German village from which he imported his skilled craftsmen to work in his willow ware factory. The National Park Service began having on-site presence in 2015, with workshops and tours, including up into the Blue Onion Dome which affords magnificent views of downtown Hartford, the Connecticut River and Colt Park, formerly the back yard of Armsmear, Samuel & Elizabeth Colt’s mansion. By 2016, an NPS ranger had taken up residence in the South Armory and was giving walking tours of Coltsville. The old South, East and North armories are under renovation and the two 1855 brownstone buildings, the oldest structures on site, will become the National Park Service Visitor Center. The armories themselves have been or are being renovated into apartments, offices and education facilities.

Sheldon-Charter Oak

While visiting Sheldon-Charter Oak, you might make a stop by sights like Connecticut River and Charter Oak Cultural Center.

Sheldon-Charter Oak

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