Cedar Hill Rail Yard
Project
Claudia Carle’s historical, visual, and textual palimpsest of the Cedar Hill Rail Yards, once among the largest railroad infrastructures in the Northeast.
Industrial Heritage
Connecticut Mills, Rivers, and Rails
Project
Connecticut has a rich industrial heritage. In this map, Abby Reed shows the number of mills (represented by size of circle); mill type (Orange = Brass/Metals; Green = Manufacturing; Yellow = Textiles); as well as the Rivers, Railroads, and Highways that make up the State’s basic transportation and power-delivery infrastructure.
New Haven Clock Factory: History and Networks
Project
Rukshan Vathupola’s website explores the local, regional, and global networks connected to the New Haven Clock Company and its factory buildings on Hamilton Street.
New Haven Clock Factory Zine
Project
A 24-page Zine about the New Haven Clock Factory, created by Dante Furioso and Luis Sala Porras. Includes quotes from interviews, archival imagery, and narrative.
In Memoriam: Winchester Repeating Arms Factory
Project
The demolition of a structure, especially in an urban area, can be a violent and destructive act for a neighborhood that collectively associates memories with a space as the removal constitutes an erasure of a landmark in a collective community map. This project attempts to study a building’s end of life, and to develop a curation of decay in order to ritualize the lifecycle of a structure and enshrine th4e memories associated with a community’s past and present. Urban change is inevitable as cities are organisms that regenerate at much faster rates; but can there be a way to
Off The Rails
Project
Off The Rails: Exploring the Legacy of the Streetcar in New Hven
Orli Hakanoglu
Elm City Minstrels
Project
Bigelow Boiler Park Proposal
Project
New Haven Industrial Heritage Trails: The Ghost Town Walking Tour
Event
A walking tour through New Haven’s Mill River industrial heritage district.
New Haven Industrial Heritage Trails: Gallery Show
Event
3rd Floor Gallery installation at the Yale School of Architecture of the New Haven Industrial Heritage Trails, a collaboration with the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. Fourteen students in Arch 4233, Ghsot Town: Abandonment, Preservation, and the Postindustrial Landscape, created critical heritage proposals for fourteen postindustrial sites in New Haven. Read the accompanying pamphlet, PDF below, written by Elihu Rubin.
