New Chapel at Asylum Hill Congregational Church Gets a Name

05/02/1939 |

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The anniversary committee held a meeting tonight in the parish house.

David McKeith, Jr. announced that Helen Clarissa Gross Chandler and Charles Welles Gross had given the new chapel as a memorial to their parents, Charles Gross and Ellen Clarissa Spencer Gross.
McKeith also announced that $100,000 had already been pledged for the anniversary building fund
He added that the anniversary fund still needed $25,000 in order to be able to finish the project.

The fundraising campaign was announced on April 18, 1939.

The church would apply for a permit for construction on June 11, 1939.

Unattributed, “Chapel of Church Will Be Memorial to C. E. Gross’s,” Hartford Courant, May 3, 1939, page 1.

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