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building, now called the Wilde Building, is a large three-story structure, with a steel frame and largely glass exterior. The building is about 600 feet (180 m) long, with six interior courtyards, laid out so that no interior space is more than 30 feet (9.1 m) from a window. The steel framing elements are on the outside and courtyard walls, and serve as mullion-like separators between the window units. The interior floor plan is broken up by service cores, which house stairwells, elevators, and restrooms as well as other building infrastructure. There are escalators at roughly opposite ends of the building, providing additional access between the floors. A single-story cafeteria wing projects to the south.
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The current Cigna headquarters complex occupies about 30 acres (12 ha) (out of what was originally about 280 acres (110 ha)), on the south side of Cottage Grove Road in southwestern Bloomfield. Former elements of the campus include the Gillette Ridge Golf Club, developed in 2004. The main
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employees. The building set new standards for flexible space planning, efficiency of operation, economy of construction methods, maintenance programs, and planning for future expansion." The project won various architectural and landscape awards. The grounds, including two of the interior
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on January 27, 2010. Built between 1954 and 1957, it is an important early example of suburban commercial office architecture, and one of the state's best examples of the International style of architecture. It continues to serve as the corporate headquarters for
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NRHP nomination for Connecticut General Life Insurance Company; available by request from the National Park Service
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National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut
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courtyards, were landscaped by sculptor and landscape architect
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is a commercial office complex at 900 Cottage Grove Road in
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Buildings and structures in Hartford County, Connecticut
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Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters
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Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters
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Insurance company headquarters in the United States
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Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters is located in Connecticut
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters is located in the United States
Bloomfield, Connecticut
41°48′49.35″N 72°44′41.64″W / 41.8137083°N 72.7449000°W / 41.8137083; -72.7449000
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Bloomfield, Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places
Cigna
Gordon Bunshaft
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Connecticut General
Isamu Noguchi
Florence Knoll
Phoenix Life Insurance Company Building
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut


"NRHP listings weekly announcement of February 5, 2010"


"Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (1957)"
"Connecticut General Life Insurance Company Headquarters"
"Connecticut General Building designed by Florence Knoll Bassett. Top floor lounge, ca. 1950, from the Florence Knoll Bassett papers, 1932-2000"
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