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