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Bushnell Park is located below the State Capitol and legislative office complex, this park consists of rolling lawns, statues, fountains, a lake, and a historic carousel. It is the first park in the country purchased by a municipality for public use and was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted before Central Park in New York City. The Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Arch is an 85 ft Civil War Memorial which frames the northern entrance to the park.
The Charter Oak Cultural Center can be found at 21 Charter Oak Avenue, near the Charter Oak monument and is housed in the first synagogue in Connecticut, built in 1876. Today it is a secular non-profit institution bringing together art, drama, music, and other cultural excursions.
The Connecticut Convention Center is located in downtown Hartford overlooking the Connecticut River. The facility features more than 140,000 square feet of exhibition space, a 40,000 square foot ballroom and 25,000 square feet of flexible meeting space. It is the largest convention facility between New York and Boston. The Connecticut Convention Center’s 110-foot glass atrium rises ten stories above a grand public plaza and a tree-lined riverfront esplanade. Attached to the center is a the 409 room 22 story Marriott Hotel.
Elizabeth Park is located in Hartford and West Hartford and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the oldest municipal rose garden in the United States, and currently contains about 15,000 bushes of 800 rose varieties. Today the park encompasses many garden areas, pathways, century-old Lord and Burnham greenhouses, lawns, bowling greens, tennis courts, a picnic grove, and a scenic pond. The border between Hartford and West Hartford has moved since the park was established, with the odd result that one of Hartford's largest parks is now located primarily within the Town of West Hartford.
Hartford Stage is one of the leading resident theatres in the nation, known internationally for entertaining and enlightening audiences with a wide range of the best of world drama, from classics to provocative new plays and musicals and neglected works from the past. The theatre has earned many of the nation's most distinguished awards, including a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Margo Jones Award for Development of New Works, OBIE awards, a New York Critics Circle award, a Dramatists Guild/CBS Award and an Elliot Norton Award.
The Mark Twain House was the home of Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Langhorne Clemens) from 1871 to 1891. The house is notable for the major works written during his residency, including The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Huckleberry Finn, A Tramp Abroad and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Wadsworth Atheneum of Art is the oldest art museum in the U.S. and is located on Main Street in downtown right next to the Travelers Tower. The museum is home to approximately 50,000 objects, including ancient Roman, Greek, and Egyptian bronzes; paintings from the Renaissance, Baroque, and French and American Impressionist eras, among others; 18th century French porcelains; Hudson River School landscapes; early American clothing and decorations; early African-American art and historical artifacts; and more. The collections span more than 5,000 years of world history.
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Bradley International Airport is a located in the three towns of Windsor Locks, Suffield and East Granby in Hartford County. Located about halfway between Hartford and Springfield, Massachusetts, it is Connecticut's busiest commercial airport and the second-busiest airport in New England after Boston's Logan International Airport. The airport is home to the New England Air Museum. Other airports serving the Hartford area include the John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York, Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, located in New Haven, Connecticut, is served by US Airways Express.
The city buses run at regular intervals to all parts of the city. There is also a free bus that circles downtown. Interstate bus service is provided by Bonanza Bus, Greyhound Bus and by Peter Pan Bus Lines. Additionally, there are buses for connections to smaller cities in the state. The bus station is at the train station at One Union Place in Downtown Hartford.
I-84 runs from Danbury, on the New York border, to Union on the Massachusetts border. I-91 starts in New Haven off I-95 and continues all the way up to Canada along the Connecticut River. The two highways intersect in downtown Hartford. Hartford suffers from notoriously heavy traffic as a result of its suburban population, which is proportionally much larger than that of any other nearby city. I-84 experiences traffic from Farmington through Hartford and into East Hartford and Manchester during the rush hour. I-91 has significant delays, usually south of the city in Wethersfield and Rocky Hill and north of the city in Windsor and Bloomfield. Besides the two major interstates, the Route 2 expressway runs from Norwich in the southeastern part of the state up to East Hartford where it then intersects with I-84. Known as the Berlin Turnpike, Routes 5 and 15 run south of the city. West of Hartford, Route 44 runs from West Hartford up into the hills of Litchfield County and eventually into New York. East of Hartford, Route 44 runs to Putnam and into Rhode Island.
Hartford's dependence on the railroad has decreased since the automobile. However, the Hartford train station at One Union Place still operates. Amtrak provides service from Hartford to Springfield, New Haven, New York, Boston, Providence, and Washington DC. The station is also a major bus station serving numerous bus companies as Hartford is a mid-way point on the popular New York to Boston route.
Connecticut Transit is owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation. CTTRANSIT operates local and commuter bus service within the city and the surrounding area. Taxi service is available from the train station at 1 Union Place or by calling one to any location in the area.
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