The Courant reported on contracts signed for work on the Cathedral of Saint Joseph

Along with establishing who the contractors were and a rough date for when work began on these projects, the article also describes the work that will be done.

The article isn’t clear that Theis & Trueg got the contract for both the pillars and the statues, but the article treated the two separate projects as a single contract when establishing its value.

“They are expected to be finished in about two years, after which the completion of the cathedral, which has already occupied six of the seven years of Bishop McMahan’s government, will require by a few minor details.”

1. The article reported that F. Pustet & Co. had worked on the windows of the cathedrals in Cologne and in Providence, RI. They were located in Innsbruck, Austria.
2. The stained glass windows would cost $900,616.60 today.
3. The marble works would cost $587,068.60 today.

Unattributed.  “St. Joseph’s Cathedral,” Hartford Daily Courant, October 7, 1886, page 2.