Here Will I Dwell: A History of Trinity Church On-The-Green New Haven, Connecticut

Here Will I Dwell is a History of Trinity Episcopal Church on the Green, New Haven, Connecticut. The 1814-16 church is the earliest example of Gothic Revival style architecture in North America. It is constructed of a durable and uniquely colorful Trap Rock from Eli Whitney’s quarry. It is matched by this equally colorful, novel and stylish text by Ed Getlein. Often humorous and never tepid, it covers the founding of the parish in 1723, the struggles of an infant Anglican parish in the theocracy of Connecticut to obtain a deed, the building of the wooden first church and the second Gothic church, its several parish houses, schools, and homes around New Haven, and the changes to the church and its parish in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. “Would that academic professorial historians wrote with even a fraction of Ed Getlein's insight and humor.” Gaddis Smith, Larned Professor of History at Yale emeritus "The story of a church family and the times that have shaped its lively witness, told skillfully with grace and humor." The Rev. Ellen L. Tillotson,“whose vocation was forged among these friends” “Who knew 270 years of Church History could be funny? His chapters on Harry Croswell – America’s Jonathan Swift – are essential reading for anyone interested in freedom of the press or religion in America.” Neil Olsen, Trinity Church Dramatist and Historian