Additional details: part of the structure of the church; built of Portland free stone; dimensions reported as 95 or 100’ x 42’; included a lecture hall capable of seating 300 or 350; also included room for prayer, business meetings, and other purposes. Construction cost: $14,000. There is a disagreement on the dimensions and seating capacity: 1. The length of 100’ and the seating capacity of 300 comes from an article published in the Hartford Daily Courant on September 26, 1864, or around the time construction on the chapel might have begun; information based on the reporter's access to Keely's plans. 2. The length of 95' and the seating capacity of 350 came from an article in the Hartford Courant published on February 14, 1915 in connection with the church’s fiftieth anniversary. From requesting permission to start construction to completing the chapel: 208 days. From agreeing that a new church was needed: 392 days. |
