Past Projects - NINA Hartford

Past Projects

Past Projects

NINA has completed over $15 million in homeownership development since its inception -- with more homes in the pipeline!

Past Projects

29 Ashley Street

A three-family home that was damaged by fire prior to NINA's acquisition. NINA restored it to its original footprint as a single-family, owner-occupied home.

80-82 Hawthorn Street

The final two homes in our Hartford Heritage Homes project, 80 & 82 Hawthorn Street complete our work on the vacant lot that Aetna gave to us. They match the two homes at 86 & 88 Hawthorn Street, and they provide a dramatic entrance into the Nook Farm section of Asylum Hill.

156-158 Sargeant Street

Originally built 1897, rehabilitated and restored 2011-2013: purchased by NINA, June 2011; rehabilitation work started August 2011; work completed in April 2013; house sold April 2013 for $265,000. Total project budget: $485,000. Winner, 2013 Hartford Preservation Alliance Award for Historic Rehabilitation.

52 Huntington Street

Newly constructed single-family home, right next door to 54 Huntington Street. Designed to match both 54 Huntington and 181 Collins on the corner of Huntington & Collins.

1 Imlay Street

This classic 1875 Italianate was probably the first single-family home built in the Nook Farm section of Asylum Hill that wasn’t a mansion. It didn’t look that way when we first got a hold of it: several additions plus deteriorating vinyl siding conspired to make the house look so modern that it was excluded from the Imlay-Laurel Historic District! (We had it added.)

199-201 Sargeant Street

This two-family home was built in 1898-1899 by the same developer who built 235-237 Sargeant Street, Rollo Shailer. It’s a two and one-half story Colonial Revival home that combines a symmetrical façade and a square plan. This house was last operated as rental investment property by an absentee owner from New York City, and while it wasn't subdivided it probably was used as a multi-unit boarding house. The house had been condemned and remained vacant for several years before NINA acquired it with help from the Bank of America and restored it.

207-213 Garden Street

Perhaps NINA’s biggest project ever, 207 Garden Street was a $2.5 million renovation that completely overhauled this mixed-use building, reducing the number of apartments in the building and enlarging them in size, adding air-conditioning and laundry in each unit, re-configuring the third floor as office space, updating the ground floor retail space, and installing an elevator. The building was originally built in 1926 and designed by prolific architect George Zunner.

86-88 Hawthorn Street

Two new townhomes in the Nook Farm section of Asylum Hill, designed to look like the John & Isabella Hooker House (140 Hawthorn Street, aka the "First Mark Twain House") visible behind the homes.

115 Sigourney Street

Built in two sections in the late 1880s and early 1890s, this house was originally an income property for Samuel F. Jones before it passed to his daughter and famous son-in-law, James Plimpton. Plimpton followed his uncle Linus into Plimpton Envelope Manufacturing Company, eventually becoming its president. NINA member Saint Francis Hospital (now Trinity Health New England) donated this house to NINA, and we restored it to its original use as a one-family home.

54 Huntington Street

This home was NINA's second new construction. We built this single-family home on a vacant lot that the Asylum Hill Congregational Church donated to us, and we designed it to fit not only the architectural and historical character of Asylum Hill but also its neighbor directly to the north. That house, 181 Collins Street, was probably designed by George Keller (so says David Ransom, which is good enough for us!), and we followed the gables and pitched roof of this house as we designed 54 Huntington.

55 Ashley Street

One of the most unique houses that NINA has ever worked on. Beneath two layers of shingles, we found much of the original wood shingles intact, including the "fish scale shakes" in the gables and in between the first and second floors, and it has two front doors, despite having been built as a single-family home.

51 Ashley Street

A single-family home that had been vacant for some time when NINA acquired it, the house has now been fully restored. It sits squarely in between two other NINA homes, 47 and 55 Ashley Street, and it is the westernmost of six houses in a row built by Frederick Mahl in the 1890s. The house is an excellent example of a brick Queen Anne found throughout Hartford but most especially here in the Asylum Hill neighborhood.

94-96 Ashley Street

Probably built in the 1890s by Frederick Mahl, 94-96 Ashley Street is the middle house in a trio of matching houses, but it stands out from its siblings due its second story exterior porch. It is also similar to 30-32 and 34-36 Ashley Street, one block east.

117 Sigourney Street

This building has two distinctions: it was the first piece of the old Pliny Jewell Estate to be subdivided and developed, and it may have been the first apartment building built in Asylum Hill. Over the years, it was subdivided into 15 units before Aetna skinnied it down to 6, at which point it became part of the CIty's Lead Safe Homes program. NINA restored it to its original footprint, with the only difference being that it is owner-occupied.

18 Ashley Street

Located next to 8 Ashley Street, this structure had suffered abandonment and neglect for over 10 years before NINA and its partners purchased and restored it as an owner-occupied single-family home.

21 Ashley Street

NINA moved this Victorian home one mile from its original location at 47 Sigourney Street, where it is now the centerpiece of seven historic homes that NINA and its partners restored in the area. The building, last used by Aetna as a conference facility, is now an owner-occupied single family home. This was a remarkable project -- people are still talking about it! Winner, 2005 Jeffery S. Czopor Award from Hartford Preservation Alliance.

221 Garden Street

Along with 8 and 18 Ashley Street, NINA rehabilitated this abandoned house into an owner-occupied single-family home.

227-229 Sargeant Street

This two-family home had been converted into a rooming house before being abandoned. NINA restored it to its original use as an owner-occupied two-family home.

235-237 Sargeant Street

Cut up into four apartments before being abandoned by its owner, this 1899 home was restored by NINA as an owner-occupied two-family home. It's very similar to our house at 199-201 Sargeant Street, both having been built by the same person. Winner, 2011 Hartford Preservation Alliance Award for historic rehabilitation.

246-248 Sargeant Street

Standing sentinel at the end of Atwood Street, this two-family home, known locally as "the Castle," was severely blighted. NINA meticulously restored this 1898 historic structure so that it is once again a neighborhood icon.

291-293 Sargeant Street

Foreclosed, vacated and then damaged by a fire: this house endured a lot. It is, however, one of the most interesting homes in Asylum Hill, both for its eclectic exterior and its eclectic interior. Winner, 2010 Hartford Preservation Alliance Award for historic rehabilitation.

30-32 Ashley Street

The porch of this 1892 Queen Anne home was falling apart when NINA acquired this vacant property and restored it as an owner-occupied two-family home.

33 Sargeant Street

NINA’s first, wholly new construction: we designed and built this house to fit the architectural and historic character of the neighborhood. Winner, 2012 Hartford Preservation Alliance Award for outstanding in-fill construction.

47 Ashley Street

An excellent example of the kind of Queen Anne home found in Asylum Hill, this 1891 historic home suffered from serious deferred maintenance before NINA acquired, restored, and sold it as an owner-occupied, single-family home.

49 Sargeant Street

The youngest house in NINA's homes. Built in the early 2000s, 49 Sargeant was one of three infill houses built by Dresca Construction and offered as homeownership opportunities. NINA acquired this house through the First Look program and preserved it as homeownership.

8 Ashley Street

This brick Italianate, constructed in 1873, is one of the oldest structures still standing in this section of Asylum Hill. The building had been subdivided into four units (including one unit in the basement) before being abandoned by its owner in the early 1990s. NINA rehabilitated the structure into an owner-occupied single-family home.

847 Asylum Avenue

847 Asylum Avenue, also known as the Linus Plimpton House, counts as one of NINA’s largest projects. It stands as one of Asylum Hill’s – and Hartford’s – most distinctive homes, and it showcases a vibrant, revitalizing neighborhood. Built ca. 1862 and then substantially expanded 1884-1885, it was very nearly 70 years home to the Plimpton family. NINA acquired the house from the South Park Inn in 2021, and we restored it as an owner-occupied three-family.

87-89 Atwood Street

What a project! It's nearly as famous as the Victorian Lady, and rightfully so. It may have started as a Perfect Six, but once upon a time it was a derelict 33-room boarding house -- but that was before NINA got its hands on it. Co-winner with the City of Hartford, 2011 Hartford Preservation Alliance Award for the facade restoration and in-fill construction.