United Church of Christ in Cornwall, Congregational

  • Lost Building NRHP: Rumsey Hall (Cornwall, Connecticut)

  • Address: 8 Bolton Hill Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1842/00/00 The current Cornwall Village Meeting House is built at 8 Bolton Hill Rd, Cornwall.
1848/00/00 Silas P Judson Architect Silas P Judson constructs a basement for the Alger Institute administration building (lost) at 12 Bolton Hill Road in Cornwall, Connecticut. The NRHP listed structure was razed in 2010.
1848/00/00 Elizur G Perry Architect Elizur G Perry erects two-story frame Greek Revival administration building (lost) for the Alger Institute boarding school at 12 Bolton Hill Road in Cornwall, Connecticut. Total cost, including the land, is $5,000.
1848/00/00 Charles Coffey Alger Subscriber Alger Institute (lost) opens at 12 Bolton Hill Road in Cornwall, Connecticut. The boys' boarding school is named for Charles Alger who is one of the ten subscribers. The Institute's first principal, Rev Edward Warner Andrews, is the largest subscriber.
1851/00/00 Principal Edward Warner Andrews becomes sole owner of the Alger Institute, sells out and leaves town all in the same year.
1873/00/00 The Cornwall Village chapel is erected at 7 Bolton Hill Rd, Cornwall. Sold in 1955, it became St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church.
1907/00/00 Mrs Lillian Rumsey Sanford relocates Rumsey Hall school from Seneca Falls, New York, to the former Housatonic Valley Institute (lost) campus at 12 Bolton Hill Road in Cornwall. Rumsey Hall will occupied the premises until 1949.
1910/00/00 A mid-19C barn is remade into a gymnasium for Rumsey Hall. Rumsey Hall's six buildings: infirmary has been razed, classroom building moved next door to the east to become a parish hall, a cottage has been acquired by the owner to the west.
1940/00/00 Rumsey Hall school (lost) at 12 Bolton Hill Road is sold to John Forby Schereschewsky and his wife, Betty, who previously worked at Suffield Academy.
1943/00/00 John F Schereschewsky enlist in the United States Navy where he will serve for two years. His wife, Betty, manages with the help of interim director and headmaster David Barr.
1956/00/00 Robert A Bodkin and Ian Hanna establish the Marvelwood college preparatory private boarding school located in Cornwall, Connecticut, on a campus of the old Rumsey Hall School (lost).
1989/07/10 A strong tornado slams into Rumsey Hall administration building (lost) and raises the roof, knocking over five of the six columns supporting the porch and removes about 60 percent of the ratters, nailers and shingles. Northeastern United States Tornado Strikes 1989
1995/00/00 The Marvelwood School relocates from Cornwall to the former Kent School girls' campus on Skiff Mountain in Kent, Connecticut.

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Particulars for United Church of Christ in Cornwall, Congregational:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Architectural Style Greek Revival
Historic Use School



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 90000762
Resource Type:
Owner: Local
Architect: Judson,Silas P.; Perry,Elizur G.
Architectural Style: Greek revival
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1825-1849
Significant Year: 1848, c 1910
Historic Function: Education
Historic Sub-Function: School
Current Function: Vacant, not in use
Current Sub-Function:

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