. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. power among the aesthetical in-llueiices of a community which holdsit ill adniiration amounting to a tenderreverence. It li,is held aloft a standardof symmetry and of perfection of work-manship that has been a social and edu-cational inspiration The steeple was huilt with the churchin 1771. The (|uality of the materialand workmanship put into the \ the huilders w,is in keeping With thespirit of those days whey the founda-tion of a staunch and abiding republicwas being planned. indication oftills is found in the fact that the


. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. power among the aesthetical in-llueiices of a community which holdsit ill adniiration amounting to a tenderreverence. It li,is held aloft a standardof symmetry and of perfection of work-manship that has been a social and edu-cational inspiration The steeple was huilt with the churchin 1771. The (|uality of the materialand workmanship put into the \ the huilders w,is in keeping With thespirit of those days whey the founda-tion of a staunch and abiding republicwas being planned. indication oftills is found in the fact that the shin-gles on tlie roof did faithful service forover a centur\ and a quarter, and itw,is oiil\ hve or si.\ years that found necessary to replace themwith new roof coverings. JJiis is•among the mmierous churches for whichis claimed the one time attendance o(ieorgc Washington. Its beaut) and it-newness would certainly have attractedthe attention of a man of -•^«i«w»WiWlpW!l<W»P»WW««PWP»W^*«»S«BiiWWWPW«. oi 0 I I. \i;io\, 1 ,si. IN c;ii ceil ( inui;. THE VILLAGE OF BEAUTIKLL HOMES. 51


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