Windham County is a county located in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. As of the 2020 census, the population was 116,418, making it the least populous county in Connecticut. It forms the core of the region known as the Quiet Corner.
Willimantic is a census-designated place located in the town of Windham in Windham County, Connecticut, United States. It is a former city and borough, and is currently organized as one of two tax districts within the Town of Windham. Known as "Thread City" for the American Thread Company's mills along the Willimantic River, it was a center of the textile industry in the 19th century. Originally incorporated as a city in 1893, it entered a period of decline after the Second World War, culminating in the mill's closure and the city's reabsorption into the town of Windham in the 1980s. Heroin use, present since the 1960s, became a major public health problem in the early 2000s, declining somewhat by the 2010s. Though the city was a major rail hub, an Interstate Highway has never passed within ten miles, despite early plans to connect it.
George Elijah Hinman was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Connecticut. He was a Republican.
The Slater Library is the public library of Griswold, Connecticut. It is located in a historic building at 26 Main Street in the borough of Jewett City.
Warren R. Briggs (1850–1933) was an American architect who worked in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The J. F. Slater Memorial Museum, also known as Slater Memorial Museum, is an historic building and art museum on the grounds of the Norwich Free Academy in Norwich, Connecticut, built in 1885 and dedicated in 1886. It is designed in Richardsonian Romanesque architecture and is said to be the finest work of architect Stephen C. Earle.
The John F. Slater House, also known as the Elks Club, is a historic building in Norwich, Connecticut.
Edmund Bailey Funston was an American architect in Racine, Wisconsin. He is credited with designing the Badger Building (1916). He was the founder of Edmund B. Funston Company Architects. Funston was born in Champaign County, Illinois on May 19, 1868 to John H. Funston and Elizabeth E. (Bailey) Funston.
A. Arthur Guilbert was an architect in Racine, Wisconsin.
George W. Longstaff (1850-1901) was an American architect practicing in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Ernest G. Southey was an American architect from Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Wilfred Elizur Griggs (1866–1918) was an American architect from Waterbury, Connecticut.
Charles W. Bates (1879–1929) was an American architect who practiced primarily in Wheeling, West Virginia, and was one of the region's most successful architects. He mostly specialized in commercial and school buildings in the north Ohio River valley.
Miller & Mayo, later Miller, Mayo & Beal, was a prominent architectural firm from Portland, Maine, established in Lewiston in 1907.
Ernest C. S. Holmboe was an American architect, practicing in Chicago, Illinois, Marietta, Ohio, and Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Morris B. Payne (1885-1961) was an American architect from New London, Connecticut. He was also major general in the Connecticut National Guard and commanded 43rd Infantry Division at the beginning of World War II.
J. Williams Beal, Sons, successor to the office of J. Williams Beal, was a successful architectural firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1920 by the sons of the late architect Beal, it remained in business into the 1980s.
Centreville Bank is a bank based in West Warwick, Rhode Island. It operates 9 branches in the Rhode Island cities of Coventry, Cranston, East Greenwich, Narragansett, North Kingstown, West Greenwich, Warwick and West Warwick, as well as a Loan Production Office in Providence. After the acquisition of Putnam Bank in 2020, Centreville added 8 more branches in the Connecticut cities of Danielson, Plainfield, Griswold, Putnam, Pomfret, Norwich, and Gales Ferry (Ledyard).
Davis & Brooks was an American architectural firm based in Hartford, Connecticut, active from 1897 to 1919. It was established by F. Irvin Davis (1869-1944) and William F. Brooks (1872-1950). Among their projects is the Hartford Municipal Building, completed in 1915.
Dudley St. Clair Donnelly (1870-1937) was an American architect practicing in New London, Connecticut in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Administration Building, Norwich State Hospital, Preston, Connecticut, 1903.
First National Bank Building, Plainfield, Connecticut, 1912.
Elks Club, Willimantic, Connecticut, 1925.
Masonic Temple, Norwich, Connecticut, 1928.
