Henry Green Buys the City Missionary Society Building

03/07/1910 |

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The City Missionary Society held a special meeting at which it voted unanimously to accept an offer from Henry Green to purchase their building at 234 Pearl Street.

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Green owned Green & Bauer, currently operating at 38 Ann Street.

Green intends to transfer his business to the City Missionary Building:
Manufacturing in the basement
Offices on the first floor
2^nd and 3^rd floors unchanged from the present situation
City Mission Hall available for as space for meetings

City Missionary Building

Dedicated in 1891
Construction cost $3,700
J. Gillette had an office here since around 1896

A. Hickox was building superintendent
The Missionary Society planned to consolidate its operations at its building on Village Street, where it had been since 1904.

“An officer of the City Missionary Society said last evening after the meeting that the society had sacrificed some money, but that it was felt that it was only fair to the city to put the building back on the grand list.”

The past recalled

John Bauer died on November 7, 1908.

For the record

H. J. Gillette was the City Missionary.
This building is still standing.
Green & Bauer was currently located at 38 Ann Street.

Sources

Unattributed, "City Mission Building Sold to Henry Green: Purchaser Will Transfer There His X-Ray Business," Hartford Courant, March 8, 1910, page 13.

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