Progress on hartford Fire's new building

The building will be 75,000 square feet upon completion.

1. The excavation work was underway on November 21, 1919.
2. The company had approved the final design for its new office building on or about December 21, 1919.

The Courant would provide another update on the construction on October 7, 1920.

1. The workforce at Hartford Fire had increased since December 21, 1919, when only 800 employees were expected to work here. Now, the figure was 800 to 1,000. 
2. The cost of the project had gone up, too, from $1.5 million on June 11, 1919 to $2 million today.

“Numbered among the largest building projects in Hartford is the erection of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company’s new building on Asylum avenue, the site of which was used formerly by the American School of the Deaf.”

The Mark Eidlitz Company was the general contractor on the project.

Unidentified, “Where $2,000,000 building for Hartford Fire Ins. Co. will stand,” Hartford Courant, May 24, 1920, page 9.