You could have had it for a dollar. That's the price that the Deborah Chapel was on sale for for the past 15 years.
But not one offer included the required proof of resources to relocate the 137-year-old building from where it has stood in Hartford's Congregation Beth Israel cemetery since 1886.
The Deborah Chapel had served for decades as a place to bury the dead when there were no Jewish funeral homes in Hartford. But that changed in the 1940s, and since then, the mortuary went unused.
Not to be totally forgotten, a memorial garden is planned at the site, and bricks from the chapel will be used to help restore Connecticut's oldest synagogue building -- the Charter Oak Cultural Center.