Unitarian church sold to Charter Oak Bank

The sale of the church building and its contents was the first step toward the church building being purchased by the Trinity Episcopal Parish.

According to an article published in the Courant on the occasion of Trinity Episcopal Church’s centennial, the Unitarian Society was organized in 1844 and began to construct their church at the corner of Asylum and Trumbull shortly thereafter.  Unfortunately, the construction costs were too high and the Unitarians too few to sustain the church.  The article was based on Nelson Burr’s centennial history of Trinity Episcopal Church.

Charter Oak Bank would auction off the contents of the Church of the Savior on May 23, 1860.

“It will be a good location for the Bank, and the purchase is considered a good one.”

1. The church’s, and subsequently the bank’s, current address would be 190 Trumbull Street. The building there today is the one built by the bank.
2. $24,000 in 1860 would be equivalent to $882,242.80 in 2023.