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.

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Mary

NT$3,107 total

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Nov 13 - Nov 14

Staircase

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Andrew

NT$5,771 total

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Oct 31 - Nov 1

Free daily buffet breakfast

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Michael

NT$3,559 total

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Nov 9 - Nov 10

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Janel

NT$4,530 total

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Nov 14 - Nov 15

Meeting facility

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Eric

NT$5,595 total

includes taxes & fees

Oct 31 - Nov 1

Interior

United States

James

NT$5,429 total

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Nov 23 - Nov 24

Executive lounge

United States

Ashley

NT$9,114 total

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Nov 6 - Nov 7

Exterior

United States

Michael

NT$3,519 total

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Nov 30 - Dec 1

Front of property

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Dan

NT$7,359 total

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Nov 2 - Nov 3

Exterior

United States

Chrysta

NT$5,205 total

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Nov 23 - Nov 24

Exterior

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Cheryl

NT$3,554 total

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Nov 23 - Nov 24

Front of property - evening/night

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Katharine

Free daily buffet breakfast

United States

Katherine

NT$4,082 total

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Nov 27 - Nov 28

Indoor spa tub

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Concetta Ann

NT$4,061 total

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Nov 23 - Nov 24

Courtyard

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Caroline

NT$3,873 total

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Nov 2 - Nov 3

Exterior

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Mary Margaret

NT$4,877 total

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Nov 23 - Nov 24

Terrace/patio

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Nicole

NT$5,032 total

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Nov 22 - Nov 23

BBQ/picnic area

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Catherine

NT$4,307 total

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Nov 23 - Nov 24

Exterior

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Tara

NT$5,079 total

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Nov 25 - Nov 26

Free daily continental breakfast

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Arthur

NT$3,697 total

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Nov 9 - Nov 10

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Nov 16 - Nov 17

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