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Tavern News
Our outdoor patio is now open!
Stop on by and enjoy lunch, dinner and cocktails in the sun!
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Happy Hour Specials
Come join us for Happy Hour every Monday through Friday from 4:00 to 7:00 pm!
Our beer specials are:
Monday
Miller Light $2.50
Tuesday
Coors Light $2.50
Wednesday
Corona $3.00
Thursday
Bud & Bud Light Bottles $2.50
Friday
Guinness Draught $4.00 |
Drop your business card for a chance to win!!
We will pull two business cards every Monday to win a free lunch at the Union Street Tavern! Be sure to drop your card in the jar in the lobby when you visit! |
U.S.T. Kids!
Every Sunday, Kids meals are free from 4-8:00 pm with any adult entree (1 child per adult). Can't get here on Sundays? Come in anytime and kids can color our famous firetruck and take a chance to win a coupon for a free kids meal. New winners are chosen each week! |
Dinner Specials
We offer a variety of delicious lunch and dinner specials Tuesday through Saturday.
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The History of the Union Street Firehouse
On September 17th, 1927, during the Roarin' Twenties and Prohibition, a "Great Carnival" erupted on the Windsor Green. The Windsor Military Band led dozens of fire companies, marching bands and drum corps from all over Connecticut on a winding parade route through the Center. The celebration, one of the largest and most colorful in Windsor's history, continued for 4 days with band concerts, wxhibition drills, sporting competitions, and a lavish feast for the visitors furnished by the good folks of Windsor. (Permit us to also speculate that the numerous clandestine stills and breweries that supplied Windsor's fine speakeasies enjoyed an especially robust trade during the festivities.)
The occasion for the revelry? On that date, this building at 20 Union Street was dedicated as the new headquarters of the Windsor Fire Company and as the new offices of its owner, the Windsor Fire District. Constucted at a cost of $23,009, this double-bay firehouse replaced the much smaller 1880 station at the rear of 20 Maple Avenue (a structure still standing and occupied and now owned in part by Union Street Tavern co-owner Mike Deneen.) This new firehouse was another milestone for the WFC, first organized in September 1830 when twenty prominent Windsor men each paid a subscription of five dollars.
You may have noticed a second cornerstone on the building front bearing the date 1915. It commemorates the esablishment of the Windsor Fire District and its legislative charter as a taxing district. In that year, after a series of colorful local dramas, the private Windsor Water Company, owner of the fire hydrants in the Center, sold its assets to the Windsor Fire District. Windsor was evolving into a Hartford suburb, and the stage was now set for the modernization of its apparatus and firefighting operations.
But the firehouse was not the first building on this site. The Windsor Collar and Cuff Company, which produced collars, cuffs, neckties, shirt fronts, belts, and other ornamental aricles, was established in 1897 on the corner of Union and Broad, in the former high school building. Collar and Cuff then moved a few lots away to this location and into the new factory build by owner Fred Tolles, joining the many other thriving industries near the train station. In 1912, the Collar and Cuff business dissoved the factory became a laundry.
In 1942, the newly-organized Windsor Police Department took occupancy of space in the rear portion of the building. Holding cells were located in the basement and a photo lab on the second floor. Both the fire and police stations moved to the present headquarters on Bloomfield Avenue in 1965.
Be sure to check out our new photo gallery of Historic Windsor on our second floor dining room and throughout the restaurant! |
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