156-158 Sargeant Street

Built in 1897, this two-family home occupies a prominent location across from Sigourney Square Park. It had been a 10-room boarding house and was on its way to being a three-family before NINA acquired it from the lender. Winner, 2013 Hartford Preservation Alliance Award for historic rehabilitation.

156-158 Sargeant Street

First Floor

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Second Floor

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Third Floor

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Project Details

Started:	August 2011
Completed:	April 2013
Budget:	$485,000

Project Milestones

Acquisition:	June 27, 2011
Building Permit:	October 12, 2011
Certificate of Occupancy:	December 6, 2012
Closing on Sale:	April 26, 2013

Project History

New Trees in the Neighborhood 04/24/2015 A group of volunteers from The Hartford came out today to plant new trees in Asylum Hill for Arbor Day. We helped to line up some homes looking for trees for this event, and one of the interested homeowners was at 156 Sargeant Street. They were looking to establish a natural buffer between their property and Sigourney Street, and they were very happy to receive t
		Bridge Work at 156 Sargeant 4/17/2013 ConnDOT hard at work on the new bridge over the train tracks. At least 156 Sargeant will get a new fence out of the deal.
Prepping the driveway at 156 Sargeant 9/10/2012 We're doing the neighbor's as well.
		Painting 156 Sargeant 7/19/2012
Painting 156 Sargeant 7/3/2012
		Painting 156 Sargeant 6/27/2012 Prepped and ready to go!
Progress at 156 Sargeant 6/6/2012
		Progress at 156 Sargeant 5/31/2012 Prepping to paint the exterior, complete with color swatches.
Progress at 156 Sargeant 4/9/2012 Shots of the work on the interior, which is largely a "blank white void" at this point, so I shared photos with some perspective in them. Interspersed are some dramatic photos of the space the future porches will occupy.
		Progress at 156 Sargeant 4/2/2012 Some shots of the exterior.
No porches! 3/30/2012 Prepped and ready for the restoration of the porches.
		Progress at 156 Sargeant 1/24/2012 Insulation in, wallboard underway.
Progress at 156 Sargeant Street 11/7/2011 Work continues on the exterior, and framing has begun in the interior. In some of the pictures, there are clear views of previous wall treatments, ranging from tile to paint to wallpaper, and not always where expected.
		Last look at the old siding at 156 Sargeant 11/1/2011 This is it – or, at least, it’s probably the last time I’ll be over to take a photo of the old siding. It won’t be missed.
Old wallpaper revealed 10/10/2011 Although it reveals the limitations of my skills as a photographer, I thought it would be fun to show off this wallpaper we found beneath the various layers that have accumulated over the years. Flash and no flash for the close-up: hopefully between the two you’ll get a sense of what it looked like.
		Progress at 156 Sargeant 10/10/2011 A peek inside 156-158 Sargeant. The photos go up 156 and down 158, because at least for now I can still cross between the two side on the third floor. Notice there aren’t a lot of stairs in yet, but framing proceeds apace.
Progress at 156 Sargeant 8/29/2011 The old floor plan is now largely gone, and we’re getting ready to restore the house to its original, side-by-side, two-family layout. Some artifacts uncovered as well, especially some wallpaper that predates the effort to transform this house into a three-family. Oh, and Mike Stockman, atop the third-floor staircase.
		A real door between the top floors of 156 Sargeant 8/9/2011 Pulling back the wallboard, we discovered a metal door between the third floors of 15 and 158 Sargeant Street. This door may be original to the house – it certainly wasn’t installed by the previous owner who cut through the fire wall to create new passages between each floor of the house. We suspect this was the means by which servants could easily pass from one side of
Underway at 156 Sargeant 8/2/2011 Interior demolition is moving along.
		Getting ready to go at 156 Sargeant 7/25/2011 Exploratory work is wrapping up, and interior demolition is set to get underway. That’s Valerio Giadone, the architect, taking some final measurements. If I haven’t said so before, it’s worth pointing out now that a lot of what appears to be progress – insulation, new windows, and so on – was work done by the previous owner. Note, too, the constr