Elmcrest Hospital & the Colt Connection
Eight images and documents: historic portraits, a property map, a federal listing record, a Hartford house photograph, and two licensed modern photographs of Portland buildings. Armsmear is in Hartford. The Hart–Jarvis House was Elizabeth’s childhood home; no evidence here establishes that she founded or operated Elmcrest. Pre-hospital photographs of the Portland grounds remain a gap.

id: EC-001
title: Hart–Jarvis House, October 2017
kind: Photographs
date: 2017-10-15
summary: Hart–Jarvis House, Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt’s childhood home, photographed on the former Elmcrest campus in October 2017. The building dates to 1829–30.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hart_Jarvis_House,_Portland,_CT_-_October_2017.jpg
credit: Marty Aligata
notes: CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit Marty Aligata; link source and license; derivative image remains CC BY-SA 4.0. This is a 2017 photograph, not a nineteenth-century view. Proportional resize and JPEG optimization only. Created: 2017-10-15. Published: 2017-12-24 Commons upload
file: images/hart-jarvis-house-2017.jpg
text_file: 
institution: Portland’s historic houses · Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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id: EC-002
title: Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt and Caldwell, 1865
kind: Historical illustrations
date: 1865
summary: Charles Loring Elliott’s 1865 portrait of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt with her son Caldwell. Elizabeth grew up in Portland’s Hart–Jarvis House; this painting belongs to her later family story.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Loring_Elliott_-_Mrs._Elizabeth_Hart_Jarvis_Colt_and_Son_Caldwell.jpg
credit: Charles Loring Elliott (1812–1868)
notes: Public domain; faithful reproduction of public-domain painting. Wadsworth Atheneum, Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt Collection, accession 1905.9. Reproduction via Commons. Do not call this a photograph or identify its interior as Elmcrest. Proportional resize and JPEG optimization only. Created: 1865. Published: Digital reproduction date unknown; Commons upload 2019-07-20
file: images/elizabeth-caldwell-1865.jpg
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institution: Portland’s historic houses · Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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id: EC-003
title: Samuel Colt, engraving after Brady
kind: Historical illustrations
date: 1914 reproduction
summary: Samuel Colt, Elizabeth’s husband, in an engraving by Henry Wright Smith after a Mathew Brady photograph dated 1857. This reproduction appeared in George L. Clark’s 1914 history of Connecticut.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Colt_by_Brady,_1857.jpg
credit: Henry Wright Smith, engraver, after Mathew Brady
notes: Public domain in United States; published before 1931. Original print source: A history of Connecticut: its people and institutions, George L. Clark, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1914; https://archive.org/details/historyofconnect03clar. Do not call supplied image a direct photographic print. Proportional resize and JPEG optimization only. Created: 1857 source portrait date; engraving date not separately established. Published: 1914 reproduction
file: images/samuel-colt-1857.jpg
text_file: 
institution: Portland’s historic houses · Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Colt_by_Brady,_1857.jpg
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id: EC-004
title: Armsmear in Hartford, c. 1907
kind: Photographs
date: c. 1907, Library of Congress created/published date
summary: Armsmear, the Colt family residence in Hartford, in a Detroit Publishing Company view cataloged c. 1907. This is the separate Hartford property associated with Elizabeth’s married life.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/95509128/
credit: Detroit Publishing Company; photographer unidentified
notes: Public domain; copyright publication c. 1907. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-114500, digital ID cph.3c14500, LCCN 95509128. Include only in a clearly labeled linked Colt biography or property comparison, never in a Portland grounds gallery. Proportional resize and JPEG optimization only. Created: Exact exposure date unknown. Published: c. 1907, Library of Congress created/published date
file: images/armsmear-hartford-1907.jpg
text_file: 
institution: Portland’s historic houses · Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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id: EC-005
title: John Hall Sage, published 1903
kind: Photographs
date: 1903 per Commons source description
summary: John Hall Sage, the banker and ornithologist for whom the campus’s Queen Anne house was built in 1884. The portrait is reproduced from Bird-Lore.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Hall_Sage.jpg
credit: Unknown photographer
notes: Public domain in United States; published before 1931. Source plate visually verified: https://archive.org/details/audubonnati04nati/page/n325/mode/1up (Bird-Lore advisory councillors, fourth series). Bound item metadata says volumes 4–6 and start date 1899; 1903 is the Commons supplied publication year, not a verified exposure date. University of Connecticut holds Sage papers: https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/resources/841. Proportional resize and JPEG optimization only. Created: Unknown; no later than publication. Published: 1903 per Commons source description
file: images/john-hall-sage-portrait.jpg
text_file: 
institution: Portland’s historic houses · Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Hall_Sage.jpg
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id: EC-006
title: Portland property map, 1874
kind: Maps & plans
date: 1874 original; reproduced in June 2011 nomination
summary: An 1874 map records the Brainerd properties on the south side of Marlborough Street, decades before the hospital. The National Register nomination reproduces this map as Exhibit B.
url: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/12000130_text#page=15
credit: J. H. Beers, as credited by the nomination
notes: Public domain underlying 1874 map; faithful scan. National Register nomination, PDF page 15, Exhibit B; courtesy Portland Historical Society. Map supplies geographic context, not a photograph. Retains original exhibit label. Full map source attribution has not been checked against the original atlas title page. Proportional resize and JPEG optimization only. Created: 1874. Published: 1874 original; reproduced in June 2011 nomination
file: images/portland-map-1874.jpg
text_file: 
institution: Portland’s historic houses · Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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id: EC-007
title: National Register acceptance, March 20, 2012
kind: Historical documents
date: 2012-03-20
summary: The National Park Service accepted the Marlborough Street Historic District nomination on March 20, 2012. Its listed resources include the former campus’s Hart–Jarvis, Brainerd, and Sage houses.
url: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/12000130_text#page=16
credit: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
notes: Public domain U.S. federal government record. PDF page 16 is the federal Evaluation/Return Sheet. This rights conclusion applies to this federal page; privately supplied nomination narrative and photographs are not automatically public domain. Proportional resize and JPEG optimization only. Created: 2012-03-20. Published: 2012
file: images/nrhp-acceptance-2012.jpg
text_file: 
institution: Portland’s historic houses · Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt
accessed: 2026-09-08
license_url: https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/disclaimer.htm
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id: EC-008
title: Erastus Brainerd Jr. House, September 2018
kind: Photographs
date: 2018-09-17
summary: The east wing and grounds of Erastus Brainerd Jr.’s c. 1852 villa, photographed on the former Elmcrest campus in September 2018.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PortlandCT_MarlboroughStreetHD_2.jpg
credit: Magicpiano
notes: CC BY-SA 4.0. Commons labels the district generally; building identity was checked against National Register photograph 6 (PDF page22), captioned Erastus Brainard Jr. House east wing. Matching wing, window alignment, eave brackets, cupola and split-rail fence. Modern2018 photograph, not a nineteenth-century view. Credit Magicpiano; derivative image remains CC BY-SA4.0. Proportional resize and JPEG optimization only. Created: 2018-09-17. Published: 2018-09-18 Commons upload
file: images/brainerd-house-2018.jpg
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accessed: 2026-09-08
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id: EC-009
title: Marlborough Street Historic District National Register nomination
kind: Sources & research leads
date: June 2011; accepted March 20, 2012
summary: Link and cite. Modern photographs credited to Portland Historical Society, October 2009 and May 2011; no reusable license verified. Do not bulk publish this PDF or its modern photographs from the source folder.
url: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/12000130_text
credit: Janice P. Cunningham, National Register Consultant
notes: Link and cite. Modern photographs credited to Portland Historical Society, October 2009 and May 2011; no reusable license verified. Do not bulk publish this PDF or its modern photographs from the source folder.
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id: EC-010
title: Portland Historical Society Special 2009 Newsletter
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 2009-05-23
summary: Link and cite. No reusable license established for modern newsletter layout or photographs.
url: https://portlandhistsoc.com/newsletters/200905nl.pdf
credit: Phyllis, Bill and Claire Frisbie; historical houses appeal signed Claire Frisbie and Chris Sullivan
notes: Link and cite. No reusable license established for modern newsletter layout or photographs.
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id: EC-011
title: Portland Historical Society Fall 2010 Newsletter, page 3
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Fall 2010
summary: Link and cite. Directly identifies Hart-Jarvis House as Colt childhood home and later Manor House at Elmcrest.
url: https://portlandhistsoc.com/newsletters/201010nl.pdf#page=3
credit: Chris Sullivan, report of William Hosley program
notes: Link and cite. Directly identifies Hart-Jarvis House as Colt childhood home and later Manor House at Elmcrest.
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id: EC-012
title: Historic Building List from The History and Architecture of Portland (1980)
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 1980 source; web transcription undated
summary: Independent local cross-check: Hart/Jarvis 1830, Brainerd Jr. 1852.
url: https://portlandhistsoc.com/publications/1980list.htm
credit: Holding institution
notes: Independent local cross-check: Hart/Jarvis 1830, Brainerd Jr. 1852.
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id: EC-013
title: John Hall Sage Papers finding aid
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Date not established
summary: Repository lead; web retrieval blocked in this session. Do not quote unread finding aid.
url: https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/resources/841
credit: University of Connecticut Archives and Special Collections
notes: Repository lead; web retrieval blocked in this session. Do not quote unread finding aid.
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