{"id":6171,"date":"2016-02-03T17:01:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2016-04-15T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:56:28","slug":"anniversary-of-colt-armory-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2016\/02\/03\/anniversary-of-colt-armory-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Anniversary of Colt Armory fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.lib.uconn.edu\/islandora\/object\/20002%3A199702579\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6170\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2016\/02\/1989-0073_ph0614_colt_building.jpg\" alt=\"Colt Armory, Hartford, Connecticut\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2016\/02\/1989-0073_ph0614_colt_building.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2016\/02\/1989-0073_ph0614_colt_building-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2016\/02\/1989-0073_ph0614_colt_building-480x300.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On February 4, 1864, the East Armory of the famous Colt Patent Fire Arms Company, built in 1855 in Hartford, Connecticut, was completely destroyed in a fire, incurring $2 million in damages. Elizabeth Colt, Samuel Colt&#8217;s widow, had insured the factory buildings and the structures were quickly rebuilt, including the distinctive blue onion dome. \u00a0Today the armory is part of a National Historic Landmark District.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 4, 1864, the East Armory of the famous Colt Patent Fire Arms Company, built in 1855 in Hartford, Connecticut, was completely destroyed in a fire, incurring $2 million in damages. Elizabeth Colt, Samuel Colt&#8217;s widow, had insured the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2016\/02\/03\/anniversary-of-colt-armory-fire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6402,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions\/6402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}