Printed drawing of Trinity's first wooden church. An early twentieth-century illustration represents the wooden church that preceded Trinity's Gothic building on the Green.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Illustrator unnamed; this is a retrospective drawing, not an eighteenth-century photograph. 1600 × 2977 pixels. Not a 1750 s photograph;1902 is publication date and 1752–53 belongs to building history. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: Public domain in United States; Commons PD-US-expired tag, U.S. publication in 1902.
Source: Wikimedia Commons; Lucy Cushing Jarvis, Sketches of Church Life in Colonial Connecticut, p. 115
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Silent Grounds Collective, Historic Churches of New Haven and West Haven, SGC-NHCH-031, ED-L-CHUR-ADD001, “Drawing of Trinity's first wooden church.” Source: Wikimedia Commons; Lucy Cushing Jarvis, Sketches of Church Life in Colonial Connecticut, p. 115. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trinity_Church_New_Haven_First_Wooden_building_1752-1753.jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-12.