Yearend report on building improvements in Hartford

While it isn’t entirely definitive, inclusion on this list suggests that construction was completed on this structure.  Even in the case of the Cathedral of Saint Joseph:  as the introduction to this article notes, this was actually the brick “pro-cathedral,” as opposed to the brownstone cathedral to follow.

1. The cornerstone of the new chapel and Convent of Saint Joseph was laid on May 18, 1873.
2. Work on the exterior of James Goodwin’s house neared completion on September 15, 1873.

“Our building improvements are all made under the severe but protective rule of permitting no wood buildings, only in exceptional cases, to be erected within the fire limits, and as we build up to a larger growth we are nearly a city of brick and stone.”

It isn’t at all clear what the Courant meant when it referred to Clemens’s “brick Pagoda,” or why they capitalized “pagoda.”

Unattributed.  “The year’s record,” Hartford Daily Courant, December 23, 1873, page 2.