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Windsor Avenue Congregational Church

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long main gable, with a projecting apse-like bay on one side and a gabled bay on the other. At the left corner between the main roof and bay a buttressed square tower rises to a steeple and spire. The main facade is dominated by the gable end and entrance, which is set under a gabled projection in a slightly recessed two-story round-arch panel. Above the doorway are three round-arch windows.
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The Faith Congregational Church is located in Hartford's northern Clay-Arsenal neighborhood, on the east side of North Main Street midway between Pavilion and Battles Streets. It is a two-story masonry structure, built out of red brick with black brick trim in a roughly cruciform plan. It has a
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and built in 1871–72. The Windsor Avenue Congregation (named for what North Main Street was originally called) grew out of a Sunday school that was organized in 1864 at Wooster and Pavilion Streets. The Windsor Avenue congregation was formally founded in 1869, and its first minister settled in
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This building was then sold to what would soon be known as Faith Congregational Church. Its congregation was formed in 1953 by a merger between the Talcott Street Congregational Church and Mother Bethel Methodist Church. The Talcott Street congregation, founded in 1819, is the oldest
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congregation, established in 1819. The church is a stop on the Connecticut Freedom Trail and was listed on the United States
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In 1904 it merged with another congregation to form the Horace Bushnell Congregational Church, which meets in the former
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1871. That congregation also built the adjacent parish house in 1904 to a design by
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Faith Congregational Church, U.C.C. (formerly Windsor Avenue Congregational Church)
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National Register of Historic Places in Hartford, Connecticut
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Faith (formerly Windsor Avenue) Congregational Church
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Windsor Avenue Congregational Church is located in Connecticut
Windsor Avenue Congregational Church is located in the United States
Hartford, Connecticut
41°46′56″N 72°40′33″W / 41.78222°N 72.67583°W / 41.78222; -72.67583
Samuel J. F. Thayer
Isaac A. Allen Jr.
93000174
Hartford, Connecticut
Romanesque Revival
African-American
National Register of Historic Places
Samuel J. F. Thayer
Isaac A. Allen Jr.
Fourth Congregational Church
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford, Connecticut


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