The Hartford Fire Insurance Company’s new office building officially open for business

The company closed its offices to facilitate the move into the new building on November 5, 1921.

On November 27, 1921, the Courant would publish a series of articles that mark, more or less, the conclusion of this construction project and the relocation of the company to Asylum Hill.

1. The article noted that the Aetna Life Insurance Company would be building new offices on Farmington Avenue.
2. According to the article, Marc Eidlitz and Son, the general contractor, had overseen the construction of many of Hartford’s largest structures, but the article did not name any of those other projects.

1. “Built of chaste granite, the new Hartford Fire Ins. Co. building is one of Hartford’s ‘beauty spots’ in construction and environment. However, it is essentially an office building and every modern device to facilitate business is included in its walls while nothing is sacrificed to give the building added beauty.”
2. “Over all is the dome, simple but tastily designed.”

Unattributed, “’Two Hartfords’ now in new home,” Hartford Courant, November 7, 1921, page 9.