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The Courant reported on the planned opening of a new street and the purchase of land, between this new street and Sumner Street, that would become the Asylum Hill Congregational Church.
The Asylum Hill Congregational Society had purchased the land for the church on July 5, 1864.
Planning for the new church would be underway by July 13, 1864.
“John S. Gray has sold his lot, one hundred feet front, on the west side of Summer street, to A. M. Hurlburt, and E. S. Cleveland has purchased six lots of one hundred feet each, on the same street.” “A. M. Hurlburt” was probably A. M. Hurlbut, who was a founder of the Asylum Hill Congregational Society, and E. S. Cleveland was probably the secretary for the City Missionary Society at its October 28, 1860 annual meeting.
“Considerable in the line of improvements is going on at the ‘West End.’”
There are currently two buildings on the northside of Asylum Avenue between Huntington Street and Sumner Street, and they are the Asylum Hill Congregational Church and the Asylum Ave Condos. The church owns 303.4 feet along Asylum Avenue, and the condos own 78.5 feet: 303.4 + 78.5 = 381.9 feet.
Unattributed, “Improvements,” Hartford Daily Courant, July 7, 1864, page 2.
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