Emanuel Lutheran Church, Hartford (1924)

And yet another church in Hartford founded by Scandinavian immigrants is Emanuel Lutheran Church, founded in Frog Hollow in 1889 as the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Emanuel Church (Svenska Evangelisk Lutherska Emanuelförsamlingen). The church’s first building, built in 1892 at the corner of Babcock and Russ Streets, is now the George J. Rau-Arthur F. Locke Post 8 of the American Legion. In 1913, the basement of a new church on Capitol Avenue was finished and the first services in the completed structure were held in 1924.