First Congregational Church of Litchfield collection, 1845-1999.

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First Congregational Church of Litchfield collection, 1845-1999.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/753705739

Collection provides documentation on the church from 1845-1999, although the church was founded in 1721. The collection brings together records given by the church and a number of other donors, and includes annual reports, addresses, sermons, and discourses; several editions of the church manual and membership roll; Sunday School and youth records; histories; photographs; financial records; correspondence; and other materials. There is extensive documentation of the church's colonial revival restoration (1926-1930), including architectural plans, drawings, notes, bids, correspondence, and related papers.

6 document boxes, 1 record storage box, 3 flat drawers.

Litchfield Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8128647

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1879-1933

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Dana graduated from Harvard in 1901. From the description of Notes and papers in English 34, 1900-1901. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074365 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Richard Henry Dana was born in Cambridge, MA in 1879. Dana, the grandson of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was a graduate of Harvard (1901) and Columbia University (1904). He also studied for two years at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. On his return to New York in 1906 he found employment in the offices ...

First Congregational Church (Litchfield, Conn.)

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The First Congregational Church of Litchfield was founded in 1721. Its first minister was Timothy Collins who served until 1751. Noted clergyman Lyman Beecher was the church's minister from 1810 to 1826. The first church building was constructed in 1723 or 1724 and was replaced by a new structure in 1761. A third church was built in 1829 north of the green. This building was moved and replaced in 1873 with a Gothic structure. In 1929, as part of the colonial revival movement in Litchfield, the 1...