The Courant provides a peek inside the new Asylum Avenue Baptist Church

No special service was planned for the first service in the new building.

On April 13, 1931, the church approved plans for the reconstruction of the church.

1. The first services in the new building would take place on October 4, 1931.
2. A dedication service was scheduled for November 15, 1931.

1. “After much deliberation as to future activities, it was decided to remodel the present plant, and under the direction of a building committee including George A. Chandler, chairman; A. Raleigh Carpenter, A. O. Knudsen, L. M. Robotham and A. Spencer, Jr., plans were drawn and builders engaged to bring the church originally planned as a suburban church to the plane of a modern city religious plant.”
2. “While no special services will be held on the opening Sunday, it will be a ‘home-coming’ day in more than the usual sense.”

Unattributed.  “Asylum Avenue Baptist to be at home Sunday,” Hartford Courant, September 28, 1931, page 9.