Hartford Fire Insurance Company agrees to buy the Garden Street Reservoir for $22,000

1. Moving the building back 20 feet was being done in order to save several mature trees.
2. Palache said that the new building would likely be three stories, spacious, and be long enough to allow for the most natural light and work space possible.
3. Palache believed that the company will move into its new office building in about a year.

1. The Hartford Board of Water Commissioners offered the reservoir property for sale to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company on September 25, 1919.
2. Yesterday, Richard Bissell predicted the board of directors would accept the offer to purchase the reservoir property.
3. Also yesterday, the Hartford Board of Fire Commissioners voted to oppose this sale.

The controversy generated by the Hartford Board of Fire Commissioners notwithstanding, Whitney Palache would consider the agreement with the city to purchase the reservoir property to be finalized on October 5, 1919.

Whitney Palache was vice president of Hartford Fire Insurance Company.

Unattributed, “Insurance co. ready to build, reservoir question in doubt,” Hartford Courant, October 1, 1919, page 13.