Employees of Connecticut Mutual begin work at their new building

Flowers, provide by “a number of friends and Hartford business houses,” decorated the president’s office.

1. The new building was not yet finished. Still incomplete were: 

• the bowling alleys
• the board of directors room
• the employee store.
• Installation of wall paneling.

2. The plaza in front of the building on Garden Street was “still in the making.”
3. Landscaping was still underway.

Nothing was reported as to whether employees had the day off while the offices were relocated.

1. Relocation of the offices to the new building began at 3:00 PM on June 22, 1926.
2. The move was finished at 3:00 PM on June 23, 1926.

There will be a reception and open house for employees and their friends at the new building on July 1, 1926.

1. “Employees of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. worked in strange quarters yesterday.”
2. “Crowning Lord’s Hill at Myrtle, Collins and Garden streets, the new home office building of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company last Thursday officially threw open its many doors to the hurry and bustle of the company’s three hundred and fifty employees.

Unattributed.  “Conn. Mutual settles down in new home,” Hartford Courant, June 27, 1926, page A10.

Unattributed.  “Connecticut Mutual moves to new home,” Hartford Courant, June 25, 1926, page 4.