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The warrantee deed transferring title on the Hartford campus of the American School for the Deaf to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company was filed at the town clerk today. The deed revealed that Hartford Fire had paid $250,000 for the property.
The Hartford Board of Water Commissioners held a special meeting at 2:00 PM in order to consider an offer of property from the Hartford Fire Insurance Company that would ultimately cause the abandonment of the Garden Street Reservoir.
A Hartford Courant reporter interviewed Richard M. Bissell about the Hartford Fire Insurance Company’s plans for its new property on Asylum Hill and the effects the planned Broad Street Extension would have on those plans. Bissell told the reporter that if the configuration of the proposed street was not changed, the Hartford Fire Insurance Company would be forced to abandon its new building project.
The Courant announced the intention of the members of the church to raise funds for a memorial window in honor of John Voorhees.
Meeting in the afternoon, the board of directors of the American School for the Deaf voted to accept the offer of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company for the school property.
Meeting at 10:30 in the morning, the directors of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company formally approved the plan to acquire the land and buildings of the American School for the Deaf on Asylum & Garden.
The Courant published an editorial today that hailed Hartford Fire’s move onto Asylum Hill as the most significant development in Hartford’s rapid expansion.
The Courant learned that the Hartford Fire Insurance Company had an option to purchase the land currently owned by the American School for the Deaf at 690 Asylum Avenue.
Today, Marcus H. Holcomb signed a bill appropriating $250,000 for the construction and outfitting of new buildings in West Hartford for the American School for the Deaf.
The Courant reported that friends of the Voorhees family were making arrangements to transfer ownership of 22 Marshall Street to Juliana Voorhees.