Flagpole installation inHartford, CT

Flagpoles in Hartford

The state capital and the insurance city: office towers, government buildings, hospitals and a college campus, all packed into a small downtown on the Connecticut River. We cover Hartford and the Hartford County area, including the State Capitol and Bushnell Park, the Old State House, Constitution Plaza and Front Street, the Wadsworth Atheneum, Asylum Hill, Coltsville and the blue Colt dome, Trinity College, the Connecticut Convention Center and the riverfront.

Wind here. Hartford sits in a river-valley urban area, which works out to roughly 120 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. What is under downtown Hartford decides more than what blows across it. The valley floor is varved clay, a soft layered lake-bottom deposit left by the glacial lake that once filled the Connecticut valley, and it compresses enough that a footing here comes off a boring log rather than an auger set to a standard depth. Constitution Plaza is a deck over a garage, so a pole up there is a question about the deck and not a hole in the ground. The riverfront sits behind the dikes raised after the 1936 flood and the 1938 hurricane, and nobody cuts a levee for a flagpole. Hartford wrote the first municipal preservation ordinance in the state in 2006, and on a listed property or one inside a historic district anything visible from the street that needs a building permit needs a certificate of appropriateness first, which is a written approval of how the thing will look. We draw the elevations for that application.

Most of the people who call us from Hartford are insurance and law offices, state and city buildings, hospitals and college campuses, churches, veterans posts, union halls and the hotels around the convention centre.