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The campus of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut is famous for its Gothic Revival architecture. But  long before the college moved to its current campus in the 1870s, it was located downtown, on a now lost campus on the hill where the state capitol building stands today. In this video I talk about the lost Greek Revival-style buildings of Trinity’s original campus, as well as three buildings that have been lost from the current campus.

An article on “Lost Buildings of Trinity College” from the Trinity Tripd:

Article on Trinity College from 1886:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Trinity_College_Hartford/yA4bAAAAYAAJ?q=&gbpv=1#f=false

The History of Trinity College by Glenn Weaver (PDF):

https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=w_books

Trinity College in the Twentieth Century by Peter J. Knapp (PDF):

https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=w_books

Materials about Thomas Church Brownell from Union College (PDF):

https://digitalworks.union.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=alumnifiles_1804

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New Video: Lost Buildings of Trinity College