Historic Elton Brown Tavern In Burlington To Be Expanded

Full story: Hartford Courant

Elton Brown Tavern, the famously pink Federal-style house on George Washington Turnpike, will receive a 1,200-square-foot addition made possible by a $250,000 STEAP grant that the State Bond Commission approved ...

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Jon Monson, MA	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #1 Apr 27, 2008 Someone at the Courant needs to check their facts. The tavern was at one time owned by Elton - and it was painted brown. Hence, the Brown Elton Tavern.
April Bound Brook, NJ	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #2 Apr 27, 2008 Jon wrote: Someone at the Courant needs to check their facts. The tavern was at one time owned by Elton - and it was painted brown. Hence, the Brown Elton Tavern. Okay...but it's pink now...Perhaps someone needs to take a drive through Burlington.
Brubaker Norwich, CT	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #3 Apr 27, 2008 The historical group had taken great pain to establish the original color by paint chip analysis. The color you now see is what you saw when it was first painted.
charlie trailside New Britain, CT	Reply » \| Report Abuse \| Judge it! \| #4 Apr 29, 2008 ...and worth every penny of the quarter million that's being spent... or maybe that could have been spent on something else or maybe not at all....
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