Category: Small town

Sunday May 16, 2010

ROUTE 202 IN NEW MILFORD, CONNECTICUT – Farmstand. This was late in the day; I slept poorly the night before so I lost the morning light.

Tags Connecticut, Food and wine

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CORNWALL BRIDGE, CONNECTICUT – St. Bridget Church. A Catholic church. Late 19th Century gothic revival, The is very little information online, except that this congregation recently celebrated its 125th anniversary. I took this because of the unusual point of view – the image is taken from a highway bridge that runs above the church. The view is generally obscured by trees except for one spot where this shot is possible. Because of the limited choice in angles there was no way to eliminate the utility wires. May reaction at the time was “The wires are there. We’ll just make them part of the image.” I’m afraid that without a pole or some other indication that they are intentional, they look like a mistake.

St. Bridget Church, Cornwall Bridge Connecticut

Tags Church, Congregational Church, Connecticut, West Cornwall

Religion Small town

Sunday April 4, 2010 (Easter)

Post author By Woody
Post date Sunday April 4, 2010
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SHARON, CONNECTICUT – Back to shooting Litchfield County Churches on Easter Sunday. This is Christ Episcopal Church in Sharon. According to the Church’s history “In April, 1755, the town of Sharon granted the members of the Church of England permission to erect their first church. The congregation rapidly increased and outgrew their church by 1764 when a new “really neat and beautiful” church was built. During the Revolutionary War, the building was desecrated when it was used for military purposes, turned into barracks, and then converted into a stable. In subsequent years, it fell into extreme disrepair and was finally torn down. . . . Circumstances shifted for the Parish in 1809 when the town’s Episcopalians officially organized as a parish and formally established themselves as part of the Protestant Episcopal Church on May 27th. With a clergy and vestry of their own, the members began construction on the existing brick building that was consecrated on November 24, 1819.”

Congregational churches built in he 1820s were most often federal style. See my blog entries for November 21, 22 and 29, 2009. The gothic revival came later to the Congregational churches. Interestingly the Episcopalians built gothic revival structures from the late 1700s onward. See my entries for January 2 and February 14, 2010.