The Asylum Hill Congregational Church formally organized with 114 members. 

Dedication services were held in the chapel.

The sale of seats in the new chapel realized $3,400.

The Courant reported that the chapel had been completed and that on March 11 seats in the chapel would be rented for one year.

John Beach, Erastus Collins, A. G. Hammond, J. R. Keep, and J. S. Tryon were appointed to a committee to recommend a pastor for the church.

The Courant published a description of the church, its steeple, and the chapel to be built by the Asylum Hill Congregational Society.

Hartford’s Board of Alderman referred a petition of the building committee of the Asylum Hill Congregational Society for grading on Asylum Avenue to committee, while Hartford’s Common Council referred a petition of Henry French and others for a new grade on Asylum Avenue between Sumner and Sigourney Streets.

Hartford’s Common Council referred a petition of the Asylum Hill Congregational Society for leave to build a church on Asylum Avenue.

Meeting of the Asylum Hill Congregational Society.

The Courant reported on the planned opening of a new street and the purchase of land, between this new street and Sumner Street, that would become the Asylum Hill Congregational Church.