As its new building nears completion, Hartford Fire Insurance Company prepares to move up the Hill

The last update on the construction was October 7, 1920.

The building would be officially open as of November 7, 1921.

1. The article mentioned the latest organization to purchase “rain insurance”: the Harvard Athletic Association, which bought the policy to cover all football games except the game against Yale. 
2. The Hartford Livestock Company, a subsidiary of Hartford Fire, had insured Bella Pontiac of Ontario, a world champion cow that had produced 27,191 pounds of milk, which is 217,528 gallons.

1. “A visitor to Hartford in the future, not knowing the city, might believe that Connecticut has two state capitols, for the new home office of the Hartford Fire outwardly resembles the capitol buildings in many states. It is a stately building, massive, impressive, and so located that its immense proportions are well exhibited.”
2. “The executive offices of the company will be on the first floor, facing Asylum avenue, while the clerical forces will be installed at the rear of the building, or in the splendidly equipped upper offices.”

Unattributed, “Hartford Fire to occupy new home,” Hartford Courant, October 29, 1921, page 13.