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I have a very small gallery today. I found some records in the National Registry of Historic Places (NRHP) of some buildings in the Parkville section of Hartford. I selected two buildings, only to find that the photos I took last week were not of one of the buildings. I am going to try again to get those photos.
So, today, I offer the photo I have of what once was St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church. I’ve added some photos from the NRHP Nomination Form along with the text that follows. The NRHP photos were taken in 1983.
St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church is a small but well-detailed brick Romanesque Revival church and built in 1900. The church is located in Parkville, a turn-of-the[1]century industrial neighborhood of Hartford, on the community’s main street, Park Street. Facing southeast on an early twentieth-century commercial section, the church stands on the corner of Park and Amity Streets. A two-story frame house located just west of the church on Park Street and a surface parking lot on Amity Street are also part of the church property.
National Register of Historic Places – Inventory Nomination Form – 84001051
The Park Street elevation is dominated by a projecting gabled pavilion, placed off-center on the facade, and balanced by the large square tower on the southeast corner and the smaller square tower on the southwest corner. The corners of the pavilion are quoined and the gable peak is accented by a small narrow round-headed arch window. The window surround is brick and extends horizontally to the roof edge at the termination of the arch. Three large arched stained-glass clerestory windows illuminate the interior; the central window is the largest, flanked by paired arched windows under a common round[1]headed arched surround. The window lintels are brick and the sills are rusticated stone. These three large windows surmount four smaller rectangular stained glass windows. The latter are paired and arranged with two windows under the central arched window and one pair under each small arched window. Rusticated stone block lintels are used above these windows, while the sill is formed by a narrow course of the same rusticated stone stretching between the quoined corners.
National Register of Historic Places – Inventory Nomination Form – 84001051
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