Demolition of the Church of the Savior underway

1. The Courant predicted that the demolition would be completed in “a few days.”
2. The Courant also predicted that the new Charter Oak Bank building would be finished in a few months.

This is the earliest report that the church building was being demolished that I’ve found.

The bell was removed from the Church of the Savior on June 13, 1860.

On August 18, 1860, the Courant would report that Trinity Episcopal Parish was negotiating to buy the Church of the Savior building from Charter Oak Bank.

“… the stately stone pile of the Charter Oak Bank, will supersede the beautiful snog church, which has occupied for many years the ground on which the Log-hut of the Harrison campaign was erected, in 1840.  So we go.”

The log cabin (“hut”) referred to what was probably the campaign headquarters for the local supports of the presidential campaign of William Henry Harrison.  It went up on June 30, 1840, and it was dedicated on July 4, 1840.

Unattributed.  “The work of demolition upon the Unitarian Church,” Hartford Daily Courant, August 9, 1860, page 2.