These photos and the following write-up were submitted by the New Haven Preservation Trust.
This year, the New Haven Preservation Trust celebrates its 60th Anniversary and recognizes the creativity and preservation of some unique structures built in the founding year of 1961. The Trust also reflects on the prescient and deeply relevant vision of one of its founders and embraces a New Haven partner with the shared spirit of appreciation of our city’s multi-cultural heritage.
Tony Falcone’s “Fast Track” mural on Sports Haven outside wall.
A Queens builder has purchased the Sports Haven complex on Long Wharf for $6 million — and the betting money is on a long-term transformation of the oil drum-shaped gambling mecca and its asphalt sea of surface parking.
The pandemic has delayed the in-person public opening of one of New Haven’s new landmarks, the $150 million Schwarzman Center encompassing the university’s Woolsey Hall, Commons, and other spaces at Grove and College streets.
Architectural historian and preservationist Marisa Angell Brown kept stories like these alive as she explored the architectural history of post-World War II New Haven in a lecture at the Yale Center for British Art, recalling some of New Haven’s most contested issues of the mid-20th century that continue to reverberate today.
Dwight neighbor Pat Wallace posts flyer at Pizza House on Howe.
Pat Wallace and Jane Comins have been walking the rescue beat, going address by address to save historic houses in the Dwight neighborhood before developers buy them and knock them down.
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Allan Appel |
Oct 30, 2020 12:26 pm
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Have you yet peeked into the old Duncan Hotel, now the Graduate on Chapel Street? If not, the New Haven Preservation Trust wants you to know that the old/new pile of bricks still sports Connecticut’s most ancient elevator, pay phones original to the 1894 building, and a return to life of the 200-year-old basement watering hole Old Heidelberg, with original wooden bar and tables.
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Oct 15, 2020 10:31 am
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Have you ever seen the windows on the fifth floor of the New Haven County Courthouse?
You can find them if you walk halfway down the Elm Street block between Church and Orange, stand in the parking lot next to Kebabian’s, and stare toward the sky above Wall Street. The windows look like glossy portholes on a giant, shiny cruise ship where people sue each other and get divorced. Viewed from Church Street, at street level, the building seems “heavy.” But from Elm Street, different openings — like the circular cutouts and large glass curtain walls — give the Courthouse an airy quality.
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Laura Glesby |
Sep 15, 2020 10:45 am
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The bridge (above) now looks like a ship to Hercules Sessions (below).
So long predatory arachnids, hello … watercraft?
The Grand Avenue Bridge finally has its complete coat of mint green paint — and the new color has inspired some pedestrians to see poetry in their surroundings.
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Laura Glesby |
Aug 21, 2020 11:05 am
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A rendering of the proposed townhouses.
City plans to sell a vacant Jocelyn Square lot to a developer interested in building six new two-family houses advanced — even as city staff cautioned that the proposed development will likely require zoning relief.
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Thomas Breen & Allan Appel |
Aug 21, 2020 9:39 am
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The historic Pinto House at 275 Orange St.
A developer’s plan to move a 200-year-old house several dozen feet up Orange Street won a key state recommended approval — paving the way for a seven-story apartment building slated to be built atop an adjacent downtown parking lot.
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Allan Appel |
Jul 16, 2020 12:19 pm
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Approved 101 College design.
Amid praise for a “gutsy” scaling down of new parking, developer Carter Winstanley’s proposed new ten-story bioscience tower at 101 College St. sailed through its site plan review approval.
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Feb 27, 2020 3:26 pm
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Courtesy New Haven Museum
Guitar found in the former clock factory on Hamilton Street.
Clocks. The Sex Ball. A punk club, then an R&B club. An indoor skate park. The state’s largest LGBTQ club.
All of these are part of the past of the old New Haven Clock Company building on Hamilton Street.
In the present day, that factory complex is being cleaned up in preparation for development into housing, some of which is to include housing for artists. The reason for that concept — and the deeper history of artistic life in New Haven — is brought to sparkling, fascinating life in “Factory,” an exhibit that celebrated its opening on Friday and will run at the New Haven Museum on Whitney Avenue until Aug. 29.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 3, 2020 1:03 pm
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Carina Gormley on Grand: “My favorite walk.”
The four-block stretch of Grand Avenue between Olive Street and Wallace Street is scattered with empty lots, storefront churches, social service nonprofits, and Italian eateries, all overshadowed by a towering highway overpass and a rich working-class history.
It’s Carina Gormley’s favorite walk in New Haven. She sees the city’s past and present in each step.
Nearly every day two or three travelers de-train at the State Street Station and make their way over to the concierge at the 360 State Street apartment tower.
After crossing in front of the racing and turning traffic on State Street, they arrive confused, and exclaim: Where the heck is Union Station? Where’s Yale? Where in the world are we in New Haven?!
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Sam Hadelman |
Jun 26, 2019 7:51 am
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Tour guide Elihu Rubin.
With the abandoned Bigelow Company building and unrelenting rain as the backdrop, Yale School of Architecture Associate Professor of Urbanism Elihu Rubin posed a simple question to his eager tour group: “Is this building worth saving?”
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Allan Appel |
May 23, 2019 12:42 pm
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Restored 1833 Brown-Foote house at Lenox and Clifton streets.
A “ghost” house in Fair Haven Heights has become a “most” house — most beautiful and certainly most shiny and, after receiving a gut-rehab, newest-looking on the block, even though its foundations were laid back in 1833.
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May 1, 2019 12:59 pm
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Damage from ever-more-frequent storms.
Springing for two new tree trimmers and a foreman would help the parks department respond to all 2,300 annual trimming and removal requests and to start chipping away at the city’s tree-request backlog.
41 Button St. Vlock house: Next design won’t look like this.
The city has agreed to sell a vacant Hill lot to Columbus House for the construction of a new affordable home.
That agreement comes with a catch: the building, to be designed by Yale School of Architecture students, must fit the look and feel of the existing neighborhood. Or else no deal.
Prize-winning Mars habitat (above); McGhee on earth/ water (below).
A four-module structure printed out at New Haven’s MakeHaven may pop up again in outer space, enabling humans to explore a planetary neighbor up close.
A “space nerd” who lives on a sailboat at City Point had the vision, then put together the plan.
