Author: Katja Sipple, MA, MIS

Johann Hoffort's Bakery

The bakery was another successful and popular destination run by Germans in Middletown in the 19th an early…

Corner of Main and Washington Street Middletown

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Holy Trinity Lutheran Church traces its earliest beginnings actually more than one hundred years ago when…

(860) 582-0723
8 Maple St

The House on the Pond/Lillian Wald House

Lillian Wald: Nursing pioneer, humanitarian, and author — those are the nouns often used to describe this…

4 Round Pond Road

J Poliner & Sons Building

At 512-528 Main Street in Middletown is a two-story Colonial Revival commercial building with scrubbed terra…

512-528 Main Street

The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation

Josef and Anni Albers, lifelong artistic adventurers, were among the leading pioneers of twentieth-century…

(203) 393-4089
88 Beacon Road

The Lutheran Church of St. Mark

The Lutheran Church of St. Mark had its roots in the German immigration to this area in the latter half of…

(860)-633-1188
75 Griswold Street

Norwalk Quartette Club

A German social and singing club.

203-847-9920
115 New Canaan Avenue

Old Well Cigar Company

This was the site of the Old Well Cigar Company. Christian Swartz, a German immigrant, was the treasurer and…

Corner of South Main & Washington Streets

Poliner Shoe Store

Jacob Poliner, an immigrant from Austria, first settled in Hartford and then moved to Middletown, where he…

548 Main Street

Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen Memorial Bridge

Bridge honoring local woman who organized international tourism events for the city.

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Post Road. East (Riverside Avenue)