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Location | West Hartford, Connecticut, United States |
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Coordinates | 41°47′10″N 72°44′49″W / 41.786°N 72.747°W |
Owner | First National Reality Partners [1] |
No. of stores and services | 45+ |
Bishops Corner is retail location in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the crossroads of Albany Avenue ( U.S. Route 44) and North Main Street.
The area, which was named for tobacco farmer Joseph Bishop, who lived in the area, became a business center after 1797 because of the busy Talcott Mountain Turnpike (now U.S. Route 44). A tavern also became the location of West Hartford's first post office here in 1820. [2] [3]
A popular local restaurant/dairy bar named Dutchland Farms was located at the site where [4] development began on a Lord & Taylor department store in 1953, which opened in April of 1954. [5] [4] It was the first Lord & Taylor store outside of the New York metropolitan area. [6] This store anchored the first of the four strip plazas located on each corner of the intersection. [5] That store closed in 1974 when it moved to Westfarms. It was then home to a Caldor store. [4]
The Crown Supermarket, which opened at Bishops Corner in 1968, was voted number 1 in 1981 by the Progressive Grocer magazine in its size and category (independently owned grocery store). [6]
A small-format Target store that currently anchors Bishops Corner opened in 2019. [7]
In 2023, the last McDonald's in West Hartford was closed in Bishops Corner. [8]
The Bishops Corner Branch Library opened in 1966. [6]