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added some of the 1922 OB
===Hartford===
** 685 Broad St.
** c/o Nicholas "Nick" Vendetta '''1967-1982''' (b. 1907 Hartford, CT - d. 1992 West Hartford, CT). Son of Francesco Venditto (b. 1865 Campobasso, Molise, Italy) & Marie Teresa DiBiase Venditto (b. 1872 Baranello, Campobasso, Italy). Wife: Rose Adeline Parker Vendetta (b. 1913 Hartford, CT - d. 1980 CT), daughter of Bert Elmer Parker (b. 1888 Elmore, Lamoille, [[Vermont|VT]] - d. 1957 Hardwick, Caledonia, VT) & Bertha Maude Bailey Parker (b. 1893 VT).
** Matthew J. Brescia 1984
** Richard C. Sirois @ Wethersfield '''+1993-2012''' (b. 1938)
** Nick Dalfino +2007-2013 (b. 1927- d. '''2022''')*** moved in 2014 to Bristol Gospel Hall, which met in Nick's home.
* [[Charter Oak Gospel Hall, CT]] (Italian OB) 1948-1996
** c/o Nick Vendetta 1948+; Joseph DeLuca +1950-1954; Matthew J. Brescia 1985-1996;
** became Newington Gospel Hall in 1996.
* [[Elm Street Gospel Hall, Hartford, CT]] (OB) +1922+
** @ 19 Elm St.
** c/o John Pinkerton Barclay (b. 1863 Kilbirnie, Ayr, [[Scotland|Scot.]])
*** emig. 1893 to NYC; 1895-1901+ @ Willimantic, Windham, CT; +1910-1933+ @ Hartford.
*** wife (1894): Flora M. Easdale (b. 1869 Dalry, Ayr, Scot. - d. 1933 Hartford, CT), daughter of Hugh Easdale (b. 1837 Dalry, Scot.) & Flora McKinnon Easdale (b. 1836 Morrven, Argyle, Scot.).
*** children: John Jack Easdale Barclay (b. 1897 Willmantic, CT - d. 1976 Maywood, [[Illinois|IL]]), father of Jack Barclay who served as an elder and designed the structure of [[Woodside Bible Chapel, IL|Woodside Bible Chapel]] in Maywood, [[Illinois]].
* Farmington Avenue Gospel Hall +1933+, +1954-1966;
** c/o Nick Vendetta +1954-1966
* Park Street Gospel Hall +19261922-1927+
** @ 435 Park St.
** c/o Nathan Joseph Reager @ 86 Seymour +1922-1927+ (b. 1873 [[New York|N.Y.]] - d. 1933). Son of Leon Reager & Henriette Backer Reager (b. 1848 Germany). Wife: Sarah "Sadie" Jane Coote Reager (b. 1873 Wilbraham, [[Massachusetts|MA]] - d. 1928 Hartford, CT). 1917 Clerk @ Underwood Typewriter. Children:
*** Ruth H. Reager (b. 1905 CT - d. 1969 Hartford, CT)
*** Alice F. Reager Andrews (b. 1905 CT - d. 1996 Norwich, New London, CT)
** c/o Hugh E. May (d. 1895 Manchester, CT); Wife: Elizabeth Liddell May-Remington (b. 1845 [[Scotland|Scot.]] - d. 1945 Manchester, CT), daughter of George M. Liddell (d. 1892 Manchester, CT) & Elizabeth "Lizzie" Liddell (b. 1856 [[Scotland|Scot.]] - d. 1891 Manchester, CT).
* [[Oak Street Room, CT]] (PBCCRaven-Taylor EB) +1959+
** @ 55 Oak St.
===Terryville===
* [[Terryville Gospel Hall, CT]] (OB) +1911/1977-'''2022+'''
** Waterville Gospel Hall +19271922-1950+; Gospel Hall of Waterbury +1954-1990+** @ 10 Chapel St. +1922+; Thomaston Ave. & Boyden St., Waterville +1926-1950+; Spencer & Phoenix Ave., Waterville +1954-1972+; 34 N. Main St., Terryville +1975-2000; 36 N. Main St., Terryville 2001-present;** c/o Chaplain William J. Chambers +1922+ (b. 1890 Dublin, Ireland)*** +1920-1922+ @ Waterbury, CT; 1930 @ Oakland, CA; 1940 @ Maricopa, AZ; 1942 @ Arlington, Riverside, CA; *** 1930 electric fixture salesman; 1942: worked for the Butler Bros., Howard & Fremont, San Francisco, CA which was a wholesale & dry goods merchandiser founded in 1877, and based in Chicago, IL which in the 1930's developed the Ben Franklin stores, and was the largest wholesaler in the country in the 1940's-1950's;
** c/o William Batterton +1927-1968 (@ Greystone Rd., Terryville +1926+; @ Waterville +1927-1956+, @ Terryville +1958-1968); Abram Vandenbush @ Terryville 1969-1972, 1975-1983; James C. Batterton @ Bethlehem 1984-2000; William G. Batterton @ Plymouth 2001-2009; Stephen Morin 2010-2022+; Donald Labbe 2010-2022+;
** also see [https://www.facebook.com/Terryville-Gospel-Hall-103619691029639/ TGH's FB]
* [[Bridgeport Gospel Hall, CT]] (OB) +1904-1982
** @ 441 Bishop Ave. +1927-1982
** c/o Samuel Rainey +1922-1927+ *** @ 221 DeForest Ave., Bridgeport +1922+; 981 Connecticut Ave., Bridgeport +1926-1927+; Stratford +1927-1972; ** c/o J.S. Boyd 1973-1974; Alexander MacPherson @ Stratford 1975-1977;
** [https://omeka.religiousecologies.org/files/original/c204c2a854acc55f37b2575d8bb7198de9d21359.jpg 1926 USCoRB] indicated that there were 61 in fellowship (25 men, 36 women) including 6 S.S. teachers, presiding over 76 children (for a total of 137 in 1926). The Hall had a value of $10,218 (with $3500 owed, and $778.68 spent in expenses), and $995 was additionally spent towards the Lord's work in 1926.
===Stamford===
* [[Oaklawn Avenue Room, CT]] (PBCCRaven-Taylor EB) +1959+
** @ 298 Oaklawn Ave.
** @ Cheshire Grange Hall, Wallingford Rd., Cheshire Center +1981-1986; 1103 Waterbury Rd. 1987-present;
** c/o Jack Spender @ North Haven +1981-1985; Paul F. Caron @ Southington 1986-1994; David Cetola @ Plymouth 1995-1999; David Anthony Cetola @ Waterbury 2000-2009; Phill Belcher 2009-2022+