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The Courant reported that the former residence of Francis McFarland, 108 Woodland Street, was currently occupied by the Missionaries of La Salette.
According to the article, the missionaries were the first occupants of the house in 12 years.
Apparently, the missionaries would be at the house only temporarily, as the article reported that they would “occupy the home on Woodland street for the time being”.
In between McFarland’s death in 1874 and the house becoming vacant in 1880, it had been “rented and used as an inebriate asylum.”
“During the years which the house has been vacant the red bricks have been peeping more and more boldly from behind the yellow paint which at one time completely covered them. Winter winds and summer suns have had their way with it, and there has been none to repair the damage they did. Inside the spiders weaved their webs unmolested, but they must have found few flies to invite into their treacherous parlors in those dark and empty rooms.”
At this point in time, the house was owned directly by Lawrence McMahon and not by the Diocese of Hartford.
Unattributed. “The Virgin of the Alps,” Hartford Courant, October 11, 1892, page 2.
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