Immanuel Lutheran Church, Bristol (1907)

German immigrants founded the German Lutheran Church in Bristol in 1892 (or 1894). A church was built on School Street, on the south bank of the Pequabuck River, in 1896. A split in the church soon emerged: one group, which would affiliate with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, constructed Immanuel Lutheran Church in 1907 at 154 Meadow Street. The other group built Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church on Judd Street (the original church building has since been replaced) in 1906. School buildings were constructed adjacent to Immanuel Lutheran Church in 1925 and 1963.

Bristol Bank and Trust Company (1922)

In downtown Bristol there are two buildings which once housed the Bristol National Bank (established in 1875). The first building is at 245 Main Street and was succeeded by the second building, at 200 Main Street. Built in 1920-1923, the second building later became the Bristol Bank and Trust Company, and still bears that name. It was designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & White, although McKim and White had died by that time. The building was probably the work of Stanford White‘s son, Lawrence White.

Bristol

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Buildings Index

Broadview Avenue
80 Knollwood (1923)

Bellevue Avenue
25 A.L. Sessions House (1903)
35 George W. Mitchell House (1873)
36 W. E. Sessions House (1878)
50 Beleden (1910)
75 J. R . Holley House (1898)
76 Beleden Gardener’s Cottage (1910)
91 Page-Malone House (1905)
104 John Birge House (1880)

Center Street
61 Bristol Armory (1928)
209 William A. Kimball House (1902)
230 Castle Largo (1880)

Central Street
171 Forestville Station (1881)

Church Avenue
90 Asbury United Methodist Church (1900)

Daniel Road
14 Benjamin Buck House (1729)

East Main Street
61 J. H. Sessions Clock Company Office (1918)
61 J. H. Sessions Clock Company (1900)

Founders Drive
5 Chimney Crest (1930)
 60 Copper Ledges (1924)

Garden Street
65 Wallace B. Crumb House (1910)
 88 James F. Holden House (1920)

High Street
5 Bristol Public Library (1906)
23-25 Dr. William M. Curtis House (1905)
51 S. E. Root House (1870)
52 John Humphrey Sessions House (1888)
60 John Henry Sessions House (1882)
89 Martha J. Newell House (1870)
105 Catherine R. Root House (1870)
116-122 (1880)

Hill Street
1199 The Church of Eternal Light (1889)

Jerome Avenue
367 William Jerome House (1742)
441 William Jerome II House (1785)
492 (1842)
529 Asa Bartholomew House (1760)

King Street
736 Grace Baptist Church (1957)

Lewis Street
11-13 Eli Lewis House (1764)

Lincoln Avenue
24 O’Brian Funeral Home (1890)

Main Street
150 Bristol Trust Company (1907)
176 Lorraine Building (1930)
180-184 Mitchell Block (1870)
200 Bristol Bank and Trust Company (1922)
238 Linstead Block (1889)
244 Bristol Savings Bank (1873)
245 Bristol National Bank (1905)
248 Neubauer Building (1896)
255 Curtis Building (1904)
331 Charles H. Curtiss House (1910)
341 Harry Bartholomew House (1876)

Maple Street
31 First Congregational Church (1832)
67 Benjamin Ray House (1790)
77 Samuel Smith House (1834)
78 Abel Lewis Tavern (1794)
100 Miles Lewis House (American Clock and Watch Museum) (1801)
122 J.C. Brown House (1833)
131 Maple Street (1820)

Meadow Street
154 Immanuel Lutheran Church (1907)

Middle Street
54 Terry Homestead (1748)

Oakland Street
4 Newell Jennings House (1917)

Pound Street
49 Carlyle F. Barnes Memorial Chapel (1930)

Prospect Place
37 M. L. Seymour House (1878)
38 Carlyle Barnes House (1890)
47 A. J. Muzzy House (1880)
72 Walter A. Ingraham House (1892)
106 Harry L. Beach House (1885)

Prospect Street
13 Funck Block (1889)
43 Redmen’s Hall/Carberry Theater (1911)

Queen Street
33 St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church (1925)

South Street
94 Winthrop W. Dunbar House (1890)
110 First George LaCourse House (1909)
126 Chauncey Jerome House (Bristol Elks Club) (1832)

Spring Street
16-18 E.D. Rockwell House (1883)
19-21 Walter E. Strong House (1881)
22-28 Case Block (1881)
34-36 Edward Manross House (1885)
38 Morse Richtmeyer House (1886)

Stearns Street
19 Lebanon Lutheran Church – Salvation Army (1891)

Summer Street
78 Herbert J. Mills House (1899)
98 Old Bristol High School (Bristol Historical Society) (1890)
99 Prospect United Methodist Church (1894)
121 Elbridge S. Wightman House (1890)
156 William S. Ingraham House (1890)
173 Trinity Episcopal Church (1949)
174 Miles Lewis Peck House (1881)
200 Leverett G. Merrick House (1890)
208 Albert F. Rockwell House (1876)
220 Epaphroditus Peck House (1890)

Washington Street
14 Elisha Manross House (1832)
211 Mark F. Spelman House (1845)

West Street
510 St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church (1956)
523 Roberts-Barnes House (1783)

Woodland Street
65 Isaac Stewart House (1885)

Links

Bristol Historical Society
http://www.bristolhistoricalsociety.org/

American Clock and Watch Museum
http://www.clockmuseum.org/

New England Carousel Museum
http://www.thecarouselmuseum.org/

Lake Compounce
http://www.lakecompounce.com/

Bristol Federal Hill Association
http://www.bristolfederalhill.org/home.html

Books

Bristol, Connecticut: “In the Olden Time New Cambridge”, which includes Forestville (1907)

The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884, Vol. 2 (1886), (Chap. IV “Bristol”), edited by J. Hammond Trumbull

Historical Sketch of the Congregational Society and Church in Bristol, Conn (1852)

The Willis Bristol House (1845)

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Located on Chapel Street, in New Haven’s Wooster Square neighborhood, the Willis Bristol House was designed by New Haven architect Henry Austin. Designed with a basic Italianate shape, the house has elaborate detailing in what has been described as either the Moorish Revival style or a style influenced by the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, which was built in the Indo-Saracenic style. Yale has original plans and illustrations of the house and a there is also a HABS record. The house was built for Willis Bristol, of Bristol & Hall, boot and shoe manufacturers.

First Congregational Church, Bristol (1832)

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In 1742, when Bristol (known as New Cambridge) was still a part of Farmington, its residents received the privilege, from the Connecticut General Court, to have their own congregational services during the winter months. A seperate ecclesiastical society was formed in 1744 and the congregation settled its first minister in 1747. Their first meeting house was soon completed on Federal Hill Green, which had been chosen as the center of the new community. A school was completed in 1754 and, later, a second meeting house to replace the first. The current First Congregational Church is the third building on the site, constructed in 1832 at the intersection of Maple Street and Prospect Place. It was designed by Benjamin Palmer in the Greek Revival style, although the steeple has a Gothic elements.