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Exterior of Church of the Good Shepherd parish house, Wyllys Street, Hartford.
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| Title main | Exterior of Church of the Good Shepherd parish house, Wyllys Street, Hartford. |
| Subject | Parish houses
Memorials
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| Subject | Episcopal Church
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| Subject | Wyllys Street (Hartford, Conn.)
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| Subject | Potter, Edward Tuckerman, 1831-1904
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| Category | Lifestyle
Infrastructure
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| Description | High Victorian Gothic building has polychrome stonework, an iron steeple, roof cresting, a cross on the gable, and chimneys. Columns support porches. A fountain on the facade incorporates a relief sculpture of a ship. An inscription reads: "In Memory of - Caldwell Hart Colt." Ornamental shrubs and trees grow on the grassy lawn. An electric light is nearby. Inscribed on back: "Colt Memorial Parish House of Church of the Good / Shepherd, Wyllys St., Htfd., Ct."
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| Description notes | Title supplied by cataloger.
The parish house of the Church of the Good Shepherd was erected in 1896 as a memorial to Caldwell Hart Colt, the son of Samuel Colt. It was commissioned by Colt's widow, Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt, and designed by architect Edward Tuckerman Potter.
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| Date created | [ca. 1900] |
| Format extent | 1 photographic print ; 16 x 21 cm.
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| Format medium | image/jpeg |
| Identifier | Accession number 1975.37.4
File name 2829 img0082.pcd
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| Source | The Connecticut Historical Society. |
| Rights | Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The Graphics Collection, The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford. |
| SeqNum | 3892 |
| ObjCol | Photographs |
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