Connecticut Mutual begins planning for a new addition to its building

1. The company expected that the architects would complete their plans in one year.
2. Work on the proposed addition would then begin in three to four years, “depending upon necessity and building costs.”

The article described O’Connor & Kilham as the “same firm” that designed the original 1926 building as well as the 1932 and 1940 additions.  This was mostly true:

• R. B. O’Connor was Benjamin Wistar Morriis, Jr.’s son-in-law, and they formed Morris & O’Connor in 1930.
• They worked together in this firm until 1942, and in 1943 O’Connor formed O’Connor & Kilham with W. H. Kilham, Jr.
• Benjamin W. Morris died in 1944.

“Fraser said that the addition should take care of expansion for the next 10 to 15 years.”

Peter M. Fraser was president of Connecticut Mutual.

Unattributed.  “Conn. Mutual will add wing to home office,” Hartford Courant, July 22, 1954, page 1.