Work on Parish House Ready to Start

05/22/1903 |

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The Courant reported that all of the contracts for the construction of the new parish house had been signed.

 

  1. The general contract went to T. R. Fox & Son, for $19,052.
  2. The contract for installing a central heating plan for the church, chapel, and parish house went to Libby & Blinn, for $4,575.
  3. Libby & Blinn would work under the direction of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection Company.
  4. The architect was E. T. Hapgood.

The Asylum Hill Congregational Society approved the plans for the new parish house on April 15, 1903.

The parish house would be dedicated on February 12, 1904.

  1. The two contracts reported here totaled $23,627. In 2021 dollars, this is $736,491.18.
  2. The president of Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company was Jeremiah M. Allen.

Unattributed, “Asylum Hill Parish House,” Hartford Courant, May 22, 1903, page 7.

Unattributed, “In New Parish House – Asylum Hill Church People Take Possession,” Hartford Courant, February 13, 1904, page 6.

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