Construction continues at Asylum Hill Congregational Church

The next construction update will be printed on December 14, 1865.

Just as it had on April 3, 1865, the Courant also gave updates on the other two churches then under construction:

• Construction of North Congregational Church’s new building continued to struggle with “the insecurity of the ground.” The building was starting to take shape, but there were plans for more piles to be driven in order to render “the location perfectly safe and sound.”
• Saint Peter’s Catholic Church was under construction and would be “one of the largest edifices of its kind in the State and will be a superior building.”

1. “It will be a great accommodation when finished to Congregationalists residing on the hill, and will be a fine architectural ornament to that portion of the city.”
2. “There are few cities of the size of Hartford, which have finer church buildings than ours, and these three additions to our already large number of handsome church edifices, will be quite ornamental to the city.

There would eventually be 900 piles beneath the foundation driven at the location for the new North Congregational Church.

Unattributed, “New Churches,” Hartford Daily Courant, August 4, 1865, page 2.