Centennial Memorial of the First Baptist Church of Hartford, Connecticut, March 23d and 24th, 1890

Centennial Memorial of the First Baptist Church of Hartford, Connecticut, March 23d and 24th, 1890

Author: First Baptist Church of Hartford (Conn )

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781356473205

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Temples of Grace

Temples of Grace

Author: Gretchen Townsend Buggeln

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9781584653226

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Following the American Revolution, the majority of Connecticut's religious societies tore down their boxy eighteenth-century meetinghouses and replaced them with something totally different: spired churches with an elaborate entrance portico on one of the shorter facades. These new buildings signaled a change in how these Christians conceptualized worship space, and in their fundamental understanding of the relationship between the spiritual and material aspects of their lives. Because these new churches evoked a much-beloved myth of tightly-bound communities sharing democratic values and faith in God, they have often been romanticized as emblems of a bygone era of pastoral serenity. Yet, New England of the early nineteenth century--and its religious life in particular--was anything but tranquil. Revivalism, evangelicalism, and religious pluralism meshed with social, economic, and political dislocation to create a volatile period in which Christianity's place was uncertain. This study argues that religious belief and practice, altered in substance and even more so in style by evangelicalism, revival, and a pervasive culture of sensibility, called for new notions of worship. These new buildings helped individuals and congregations regain their equilibrium and developed their spiritual sensibilities and sense of community. They also soothed republican concerns about the need for a religious populace and were important signs of civility and refinement. As the most striking buildings in many Connecticut towns, these churches tell us what citizens of the early republic thought was important, and what they wanted visitors to find remarkable in a distinctive American landscape.


Vanished Downtown Hartford

Vanished Downtown Hartford

Author: Daniel Sterner

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1614239339

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Early nineteenth-century illustrations of Hartford, Connecticut, show church steeples towering over the Victorian homes and brownstone facades of businesses around them. The modern skyline of the town has lost many of these elegant steeples and their quaint and smaller neighbors. Banks have yielded to newer banks, and organizations like the YMCA are now parking lots. In the 1960s, Constitution Plaza replaced an entire neighborhood on Hartford's east side. The city has evolved in the name of progress, allowing treasured buildings to pass into history. Those buildings that survive have been repurposed--the Old State House, built in 1796, is one of the oldest and has found new life as a museum. Yet the memory of these bygone landmarks and scenes has not been lost. Historian Daniel Sterner recalls the lost face of downtown and preserves the historic landmarks that still remain with this nostalgic exploration of Hartford's structural evolution.


Growing Old in the Early Republic

Growing Old in the Early Republic

Author: Paula A. Scott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-14

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1317731417

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The focus for this study is Connecticut and the city of Hartford. The text explores different themes and experiences of the elderly in Connecticut in the years between 1790 and 1830 The purpose of the book is to record and to illuminate the spiritual and emotional aspects of being elderly, the economic consequences of growing old, and the ways social experience changed with advancing years.


Report

Report

Author: State Library of Massachusetts

Publisher:

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13:

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Mary Grew, Abolitionist and Feminist, 1813-1896

Mary Grew, Abolitionist and Feminist, 1813-1896

Author: Ira Vernon Brown

Publisher: Susquehanna University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780945636205

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This is the first full-length biography of Mary Grew (1813-96), an American abolitionist and feminist, who worked steadily in the antislavery crusade from 1834 to 1865, in the Negro suffrage campaign from 1865 to 1870, and in the woman's rights movements from 1848 to 1892, her eightieth year.