Parish House of the Church of the Good Shepherd - Hartford, CT
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The Parish House of the Church of the Good Shepherd was erected in 1895 (MDCCCXCV) in memory of Caldwell Hart Colt. It is located SW of the church at 155 Wyllys Street in Hartford, CT.
Waymark Code: WM153CN
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 10/08/2021
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Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt, widow of inventor and industrialist Samuel Colt, commissioned Edward Tuckermann Potter, who designed the Church of the Good Shepherd, to construct the Parish House of the Church of the Good Shepherd as a memorial to her eldest son Caldwell Hart Colt who died in 1894. The High Victorian Gothic style Parish House has the same architectural style as the Church of the Good Shepherd and served as a Sunday school and recreation hall.
The Parish Center has the two part dedication over the northeast and northwest entrances. The entrances are inscribed:
Erected MDCCCXCV
In Memory of
Caldwell Hart Colt
by his mother
The Parish House is also polychromic, matching the elaborate design Church of the Good Shepherd. The symmetrical building is constructed of brownstone and is decorated with bands of light colored sandstone. In the center of the building is a projecting block with portico entrances supported by Corinthian columns on the NW and NE corners. In the center is a pair of windows set within a large polychromic Gothic arch. Flanking the center arch on the first level are a series of slender Gothic style windows that increase in size from smallest on the left and largest on the right. The second level has four sets of four connected Gothic style windows framed with sandstone. At the center of the roof is a huge polychrome arch inset with a stained glass window and topped with a cross. The ends of the building are rounded with Gothic style windows framed by sandstone banding.
The Parish House of the Church of the Good Shepherd now also serves as the home for the Metropolitan Community Church: Link
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