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Rocco Cappiello was raised in Danbury, [[Connecticut]], and was saved at Gospel meetings in [[New Jersey]], and returned around 1926-1927 to Danbury to reside, and did tent meetings with Louis Rosanio & Cesar Patrizio in that area, sponsored by the Waterville assembly, which birthed an Italian open brethren assembly known then as Danbury Gospel Hall in 1928, initially renting storefronts.
One of the first to be saved at those meetings was Alexander Pizzo, who served as a correspondent from the mid-1930's thru 1974, succeeded by Jack McGrath of Northville, New Milford. In 1964, the mid-1970'sassembly started an annual spring conference, which continued thru at least 1974. In the late 1960's1968, the assembly moved to an old "Catholic" church in Brookfield, renamed Brookfield Gospel Hall, and gradually phased out of Italian to become an a primarily English-speaking assembly, that continues today.
=Locations=
* 10 1/2 Maple Ave., Dan. +1936+* 253 Main St., Dan. +1941-1947* 203 Main St., Dan. 1948-1964* Danbury Drum Corp., Dan. Shelter Rock Rd. +1963+* Masonic Hall, 337 Main St., Dan. 1965-1968* 23 S. Main St. (?) 1969* 23 South Ave., Danbury (?) 1970-1974* 164 Pocono Rd. , Brookfield 1975-present
=Correspondents=