Meriden, Connecticut Meriden, Connecticut Official seal of Meriden, Connecticut Meriden is positioned in the US Meriden - Meriden Meriden is a town/city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, positioned halfway between the county-wide metros/cities of New Haven and Hartford.
1.2.2 Legacy of Meriden's grand manufacturing era Plaque commemorating Abraham Lincoln's visit to Meriden in 1860 in front of City Hall (2012) A stand produced by the Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company, Meriden, c.
In the Los Angeles County Museum of Art collection, a punch bowl (1895) made by the Meriden Cut Glass Company, a subsidiary of the Wilcox Silver Plate Co., that later became part of the International Silver Company.
Flask produced by the Napier Company, Meriden, 1925-1930, exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum of Art exhibition 19th century Modern (2011 12) 2015 photo of Home National Bank building designed by Mc - Kim, Mead & White, downtown Meriden.
It was once proposed as the Connecticut state capital. It was titled for the town of Meriden, West Midlands, England, near Birmingham.
In the 1800s, Meriden became a manufacturing center of note, with a several companies forming, or relocating to the city, including the Meriden Britannia Company (a predecessor of the International Silver Company with corporate HQ in Meriden), C.F.
(1849 1945), the Meriden Flint Glass Company (1876 92), Edward Miller & Co / Miller Company (1844 present), Wilcox and White, Handel Company (lamps), and the Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company (1852 1940).
Meriden earned the nickname "Silver City", due to the large number of silver manufacturers.
In addition to hollowware, Meriden was also a momentous center of cutlery manufacturing (various silver companies, Meriden Cutlery and Miller Bros.
During the Civil War, Parker's Meriden Machine Company was under Union contract to produce 10,000 repeating rifles and 15,000 Springfield rifles.
2015 photo of Meriden City Hall (1907) with Civil War monument in the foreground.
In 1876, the Meriden Britannia Company made momentous accomplishments at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and won the First Place medal for plated wares.
Meriden also was an meaningful site for graphic arts innovation.
In 1888, the Meriden Gravure Company (in Meriden 1888 1989) was established by Charles Parker and James F.
1941, a several Hollywood stars endorsed the company's silverware in print advertisements in LIFE magazine. After World War II, in 1949/50, The Silver Theatre was brought to tv and broadcast on CBS, also with the International Silver Company as the sponsor.
Legacy of Meriden's grand manufacturing era Many design objects from this manufacturing era from Meriden are in dominant museums athwart the United States including those in Boston; at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York (28 objects); Chicago; Dallas; Los Angeles; New York; Philadelphia; Richmond, Virginia; Toledo, Ohio; and Washington, DC. Design objects from this era from Meriden have also been encompassed in notable exhibitions since at least 1867, with Meriden Britannia products on view at the Paris Universal Exhibition. Some comparatively recent examples include In pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1986 87), and more recently, Modernism in American Silver: 20th century design (2005 06) in Dallas, Miami Beach, and Washington, DC, which highlighted downtown Meriden and the area's part as an meaningful center of Modernist silver production. In 19th century Modern (2011 12) in Brooklyn, designs by the International Silver Company and the Napier Company, another Meriden manufacturer, were exhibited alongside iconic designs by Tiffany & Co.
1920) sold for USD$14,950, doubling its estimate, at Christie's auction home in New York in 1999. Later, a 14-inch, International Silver Company cocktail shaker (c.
1927) sold for USD$21,600 tripling its estimate, at Christie's in New York in 2005. A Parker gun made for a Russian czar before World War I, but never bringed, was reported to have been sold for USD$287,500 in 2007. In 2008, a rare Handel lamp sold for USD$85,000. On March 5 6, 2014 at Sotheby's in London, "Al Capone's cocktail shaker" made by the Meriden International Sterling Company (c.
During World War II, factories in Meriden worked three shifts (24 hours/day).
On March 8, 1944, the War Manpower Commission gave Meriden the designation as "National Ideal War Community", and Jimmy Durante and Glenn Miller entertained those at the ceremeny. and Emily and Burton Tremaine / The Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art, Meriden, CT.
And Emily Hall Tremaine firmly put Meriden on the international, 20th century art/design map.
In December 1947, Meriden became known once again as a site of design innovation, now with Modern art, via the Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art and the organization of a Painting toward architecture exhibition which opened at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum and later travelled to venues in 24 American metros/cities (1947 52), including the Los Angeles Museum of Art, Houston's Contemporary Art Museum, and the Milwaukee Art Institute.
The exhibition featured and referred to the dominant Modernists in American and European art and architecture with a connection to then-Miller Company lighting designs.
In the 1950s, the Miller Company Collection of Abstract Art was privatized to "Mr & Mrs Burton Tremaine, Meriden, CT" and various artworks were lent for exhibitions nationally and internationally into the 1970s with this designation.
One highlight includes two of their artworks encompassed in 'Cezanne to Miro' (1968) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, an exhibition that later traveled to Buenos Aires, Santiago, and Caracas. Center Street, Meriden, CT.
In 1987, the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation was established by the noted art collector that partly worked in Meriden, before her passing, with three focus areas: learning disabilities, the arts, and the surrounding. The offices were positioned in downtown Meriden.
Meriden was a locale chosen for the recording of the 1989 film Jacknife directed by David Jones starring Robert De Niro, Ed Harris and Kathy Baker.
A number of Meriden locations can be seen in the film, including a historic home on Linsley Avenue, as well as film locations in the greater region. The Hanging Hills and Hubbard Park, and Meriden below (2003) Notable peaks in Meriden include the Hanging Hills (West Peak, East Peak, South Mountain, and Cathole Mountain); Lamentation Mountain, Chauncey Peak, and Besek Mountain.
The town/city of Meriden is positioned on Interstate 91, which provides access to Hartford, Springfield, and New Haven.
The Wilbur Cross Parkway (Connecticut Route 15) travels in a southwestern direction connecting to suburbs and metros/cities like Wallingford, New Haven, and towards New York City.
The parkway becomes the Berlin Turnpike (also Connecticut Route 15) on the northern end of Meriden.
The town/city of Meriden is connected to the metros/cities of New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts, by county-wide rail service provided by Amtrak, which runs north-to-south through the center of the city.
The town/city was also served by the Middletown, Meriden and Waterbury Railroad, which provided both freight and passenger service to Waterbury and Middletown from 1888 until its abandonment in 1924.
In the Quinnipiac River Gorge in South Meriden, 1.3 miles (2.1 km) of the initial MW&CR Railroad right of way has been converted into a recreational rail trail as the Meriden Linear Trail.
Beginning in 1784, Meriden had a stop on the New Haven-Hartford Stage Coach on Route 5 near the intersection of East Main Street.
Meriden had four daily departures to/from Hartford/Boston, and four daily departures to/from New Haven/New York daily from the 1970s through 2007, when intercity bus service ceased serving Meriden.
Meriden is linked to the Connecticut Transit System, Connecticut's extensive enhance transit bus network.
Three bus lines loop throughout the town/city of Meriden once per hour.
The "B" bus route departs the Meriden barns station for the southern end of Kohls Plaza, connecting for New Haven; the "A" bus route departs the rail station for the northern end of Meriden Square with connections to New Britain and Hartford; and the east/west "C" bus travels along East Main and West Main streets, with a handful of departures to Middletown and Waterbury.
Meriden Markham Municipal Airport is the city-owned airport, positioned 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the town/city center on the border of South Meriden and Yalesville, and serves private and charter planes.
Photo of historic Board of Education building, formerly Meriden High School (2012) Looking west from town/city hall to the downtown area, Meriden, CT.
Close-up view of soldier on Civil War monument in Meriden (2012) Civil War monument (1873) in front of the Meriden City Hall.
158 men from Meriden who died in the war are listed. Historican cemeteries: Meetinghouse Hill Burying Ground (end of Ann Street), Meriden's first burial ground used 1727 1771; and Broad Street Cemetery (402 Broad Street), the second burial ground first used in 1771, includes a Revolutionary War commemoration plaque Meriden Main Post Office (1907), designed by James Knox Taylor on the National Register of Historic Places Trails: Meriden Linear Trail, Mattabesett Trail and the Metacomet Trail, which starts 4 miles north of Meriden Gallery 53, 53 Colony Street, home of the Arts & Crafts Association of Meriden Since 1975, the Meriden Hall of Fame organization has issued recognitions.
In the Meriden City Hall, plaques pay tribute to the inductees. (1901 1991), president of the Miller Company in Meriden and noted art collector (1923 2002), president and chairman of the Miller Company in Meriden, managed his family's large art collection, the first chairman of the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation in Meriden, on the board of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, and Chairman of the Board of Meriden Hospital Emily Hall Tremaine (1908 1987), art director at the Miller Company in Meriden (c.
Harold Hugo (1910 85), president of the Meriden Gravure Company, an innovator in the graphic arts trade He interval up in Meriden, later moving to Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. At one time The Meriden Daily Journal served as the improve newspaper.
Currently the Meriden Record Journal serves the communities of Meriden, Wallingford, Cheshire, and Southington and is positioned in downtown Meriden. a b c (Undated).
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Copy of "The Parker Gun" by Ron Kirby from The City of Meriden Message Board Meriden Record-Journal, Retrieved July 18, 2015.
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"Philadelphia Exposition of 1876: A Monumental American silver-plated 'Chief and Squaw' centerpiece, Meriden Britannia Company, Meriden, CT, the figures attributed to Theodore Baur, 1876.
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Eliel Saarinen's Architectonic Tea Urn (for the International Silver Company) from the 1930s recently acquired for the Dallas Museum of Art collection.
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Punch Bowl on Stand, Meriden Cut Glass Company, 1895.
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"Hanukkah Lamp", late 19th century, Meriden Britannia Company.
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"Modernism in American Silver: 20th century design" exhibition (several International Silver designs are featured) (September 16, 2005 January 22, 2006) (Organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, exhibited there as well as the Smithsonian Institution and Wolfsonian-FIU in Miami Beach).
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(April 13, 2002.) "Burton Tremaine, 79, Philanthropist in Arts, Dies".
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