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Union and New Haven Trust Building

The former Union and New Haven Trust Building, located at 205 Church Street in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, was the tallest building in New Haven when it was constructed in 1927. This Georgian-Colonial Revival skyscraper was designed by architects Cross and Cross. The building, sited on the northeast corner of the historic New Haven Green, changed hands several times over the years. In 2014 it was converted into residences and renamed The Union. History Situated on the corner of Elm and Church streets, the site was the home of Richard Perry in the 1640s, who served as secretary to the General Court of the Colony of New Haven. The building was constructed for the Union and New Haven Trust Co. during the Roaring Twenties, designed to reflect the architecture of the Green and its three historic churches. The building's golden cupola intentionally mirrors that of the Green's United Church. The building was the tallest in New Haven when it opened in 1927. The Union Trust Company moved its headquarters to Stamford in 1981, but kept a branch on the ground floor. The bank was purchased in 1995 by First Union Corporation, which later took the name of its Wachovia acquisition and in 2010 merged into Wells Fargo. The building's ground floor is still occupied by a Wells Fargo branch. Apartments On March 28, 2013, Cooper Church LLC, a New York-based developer, purchased the 184,480 square-foot building from Hampshire Hotels & Resorts for $13.5 million. The New Haven Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) approved Cooper Church’s proposed zoning variances in June 2013. Construction to convert the former office building to 138 studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom market rate rental apartments began in April 2014. Leasing at The Union commenced in spring 2015. The building includes 138 studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments. References
Union and New Haven Trust Building

El Union and New Haven Trust Building, ubicado en el número 205 de Church Street, en New Haven(Connecticut), era el edificio más alto de New Haven cuando se construyó en 1927. Este rascacielos de estilo neocolonial georgiano fue diseñado por los arquitectos Cross and Cross. El edificio, ubicado en la esquina noreste del histórico New Haven Green, cambió de manos varias veces a lo largo de los años. En 2014 se convirtió en residencias y pasó a llamarse The Union. Historia Situado en la esquina de las calles Elm y Church, en el solar estuvo en la década de 1640 el hogar de Richard Perry, quien se desempeñó como secretario del Tribunal General de la Colonia de New Haven.​ El edificio fue construido para la Union and New Haven Trust Co. durante los locos años veinte, diseñado para reflejar la arquitectura de Green y sus tres iglesias históricas. La cúpula dorada del edificio refleja intencionalmente la de la Iglesia Unida de Green.​ El edificio era el más alto de New Haven cuando se inauguró en 1927.​ Union Trust Company trasladó su sede a Stamford en 1981, pero mantuvo una sucursal en la planta baja. El banco fue comprado en 1995 por First Union Corporation, que luego tomó el nombre de su adquisición de Wachovia y en 2010 se fusionó con Wells Fargo.​ La planta baja del edificio todavía está ocupada por una sucursal de Wells Fargo.​ Apartamentos El 28 de marzo de 2013, Cooper Church LLC, un desarrollador con sede en Nueva York, compró el edificio de 184 480 pies cuadrados de Hampshire Hotels & Resorts por $13,5 millones. La Junta de Apelaciones de Zonificación de New Haven (BZA) aprobó las variaciones de zonificación propuestas por Cooper Church en junio de 2013. La construcción para convertir el antiguo edificio de oficinas en 138 apartamentos tipo estudio, de una y dos habitaciones en alquiler a precio de mercado comenzó en abril de 2014. El arrendamiento en The Union comenzó en la primavera de 2015. El edificio incluye 138 apartamentos tipo estudio, de una y dos habitaciones.​ Véase también Primeros rascacielos Referencias
Unitarian Meetinghouse

The Unitarian Meetinghouse is a historic church at the junction of Connecticut Routes 169 and 6 in the village center of Brooklyn, Connecticut. Built in 1771, it is one of a small number of pre-Revolutionary church buildings in the state, and distinctive for having a sufficiently complete documentary record to support a complete restoration. It retains a configuration distinctive of that period, with its main entrance on the long side of the building, and the pulpit opposite. The bell tower with steeple is located at one of the short ends, suggestive of the 19th century change to place the entrance there as well. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. When Brooklyn was settled in the early 18th century, its territory was divided between Pomfret and Canterbury. Its religious congregation was organized in 1731, and was originally called the Mortlake Society. Its first meeting house, built in 1734, was known as the Second Church in Pomfret. The present church was built in 1771-74; the town of Brooklyn was incorporated in 1786. Its construction, first proposed in 1763, was opposed for many years by local Anglicans, resulting in the construction of Trinity Church. In the early 19th century, the congregation was split between Trinitarians and Unitarians, with the latter ultimately retaining control of this building. The building was restyled in 1845, relocating the entrance to a new tower on the side, building a full second floor at the gallery level, and replacing the box pews and pulpit. All of the interior changes were reversed in the late 20th century, restoring it to its original form. The tower, whose steeple was replaced after the New England Hurricane of 1938, was retained. The building is owned and maintained by the Unitarian Universalist Society in Brooklyn, CT. The UUSB are the direct successors of the first Unitarian congregation in Connecticut. Its first Unitarian minister, Rev. Samuel May, was a noted peace activist, education reformer, temperance crusader, supporter of women's rights, and one of the principal supporters of Prudence Crandall, the official female hero of the state of Connecticut. In 1871 the UUSB ordained the Rev. Celia Burleigh, the first female Unitarian minister and one of the first regularly ordained female ministers in any denomination. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Windham County, Connecticut References
United States Post Office–Bridgeport Main

The Bridgeport Main Post Office is located at 120 Middle Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It is a three-story Moderne/Art Deco, designed by Louis A. Simon, the supervising architect of the United States Treasury Department, and completed in 1934. The building notably includes artwork funded by the department's Section of Painting and Sculpture, with murals in its lobby area drawn by R. L. Lambden depicting mail delivery through the ages. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Bridgeport, Connecticut List of United States post offices References External links Media related to United States Post Office–Bridgeport Main (Bridgeport, Connecticut) at Wikimedia Commons
United States Post Office–Milford Main

The U.S. Post Office-Milford Main, also known as Milford Main Post Office, is a historic post office building at 6 West River Street in Milford, Connecticut. It was designed by James A. Wetmore and completed in 1931. It is a fine local example of Classical Revival design, making a significant contribution to a cluster of civic buildings around a triangular park north of Milford's commercial district. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. History Milford's main post office occupies a prominent position, facing west toward the city's triangular green on West River Street. It makes a significant contribution to a cluster of civic buildings around a triangular park north of Milford's commercial district. The post office was designed by James A. Wetmore in 1929 and completed in 1931. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 25, 1986. Architecture It is a fine local example of Classical Revival design. The single-story building is a rectangular structure, with a frame of steel and concrete which is faced in red brick and trimmed in limestone. It is covered by a shallow hip roof, which is obscured by a brick parapet above a limestone cornice. The main facade is five bays wide, with the three in the center projecting slightly. The outermost bays have large sash windows, while the outer ones of the projection are topped by half-round windows and have sidelights. The entry is in the center, also topped by a half-rond window, with the doorway framed by round columns and a modest entablature. Its design is similar to a period post office in Newburyport, Massachusetts, but it is not known if a local architect was involved in its design. Its design was affected by the terms of the 1926 Public Buildings Act, which dictated economic use of materials and harmonization with surrounding structures, which in this case would have included Milford City Hall (completed in 1919 at the north end of the green), but not the adjacent neoclassical state courthouse (not completed until 1936). See also National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut List of United States post offices References
United States Post Office–Naugatuck Main

The U.S. Post Office-Naugatuck Main, also known as Naugatuck Main Post Office, is a historic former post office building at Church and Cedar Streets in Naugatuck, Connecticut. Designed in 1915 and completed the following year, it is one of the most architecturally sophisticated post office buildings in the state. It is set among a cluster of civic buildings designed by McKim, Meade & White. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. Naugatuck's current post office is located at 170 Water Street. Description and history Naugatuck's former main post office is located North of the Town Green, at the Southeast Corner of Church and Cedar Streets. It is a single-story masonry structure, its original main block finished in buff brick trimmed with terra cotta and marble, and covered by a hipped red tile roof. A later 20th-century addition extends to its rear; it has a frame of steel and concrete, but is finished with similar materials and covered by a flat roof. The main facade is dominated by five large round-arch openings, with the four outer ones housing windows that flank the main entrance in the center bay. A frieze dotted with terra cotta and marble inlays extends below the bracketed cornice. The building was one of the first of forty-five post offices built by the federal government in 1916. The government had just produced a set of standards governing the size, scale, and architecture of post office buildings based on the size and importance of the community. Naugatuck was at the time a highly successful industrial community (home to Charles Goodyear's United States Rubber Company aka Uniroyal), and its center had recently been graced by the sophisticated architectural contributions of McKim, Meade & White. The city was consequently given a post office building of somewhat more elegance than was typically found in communities of similar size. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven County, Connecticut List of United States post offices References
United States Post Office–Norwich Main

The US Post Office-Norwich Main is located at 340 Main Street in downtown Norwich, Connecticut. Built in 1905 and enlarged in 1938, it is a good local example of Classical Revival architecture, with an unusual level of detail for a period post office. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1986. Description and history The Norwich Main Post Office is located on the eastern fringe of its central business district, on the north side of Main Street between Cliff and Park Streets. It is a tall single-story Classical Revival structure, built of steel framing faced in limestone and brick. It has a mansard-style roof surrounded by a stone balustrade, and a slightly projecting center entrance three bays in width. This section is framed by four fluted Ionic columns, and is flanked by windows set in elaborate bracketed and corniced stone surrounds. Some of the exterior detailing is reflected in the main lobby area, where there are Ionic pilasters rising to detailed ceiling molding. The building was designed in 1903 by James Knox Taylor and built in 1905, with a 1938 addition designed by Louis A. Simon and funded by the Public Works Administration. It was one of only six buildings designed by Taylor in 1903, resulting in an unusually detailed design. The addition was made with similar materials to the original; while not as elaborate in its design, it has elements that tie the two sections together. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut List of United States post offices References
Unity Burial Ground

The Unity Burial Ground is a small graveyard located on the southeast end of White Plain in the Nichols section of Trumbull, Connecticut. It is located a few rods north of the site of the first meeting house that was built in the parish of Unity, off of White Plains Road. The cemetery was laid out in 1730 and the first burial was that of 7 year old Samuel Bennitt on June 21, 1731. There are over 110 gravestones, 90 unmarked field stones and 241 known grave sites, and most of the original stones face east. This is unusual, as it runs contrary to the common practice of placing stones so that they face the road. The latest known burial was for Charles E Booth Jr. on August 17, 1935. Pulpit Rock In February 1694, Thomas Lake purchased land on the east side of the natural grassy flood plains of the Pequonnock River near an area called The Falls. By 1705 Route 110, White Plains Road, was laid out northerly past Lake's house to a natural rock outcropping called Pulpit Rock. Pulpit Rock is located north of the present day intersection of White Plains Road and Unity Road. The first meetings of the Trumbull Congregational Church, established in 1730 as the Parish of Unity and later renamed Trumbull Congregational Church, were held at Pulpit Rock on White Plains Road. This church also served as a town meeting house until 1747 when a new church was built under the leadership of Reverend James Beebe. Notes References Reverend Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Volume 1, Fairfield Historical Society, 1886 Reverend Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Volume 2, Fairfield Historical Society, 1886 History of Trumbull Dodrasquicentennial 1797–1972 Commemorative Book, Trumbull Historical Society, 1972
Upper State Street Historic District

The Upper State Street Historic District encompasses a well-preserved neighborhood commercial district of the late 19th century in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. The district is an irregular strip running NNE to SSW mainly along State Street in New Haven (between Bradley Street and the Mill River), one block west of Interstate 91, the highway which determines the district's eastern and southern borders. The district was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1984. When New Haven's core area was laid out in the 1630s, what is now State Street started out as a path from that area to a series of meadows along the Mill River that were used as pasture land. A bridge spanned the Mill River in 1641, cementing the roadway's importance as an east–west travel route. It saw no significant commercial development, however, until after 1850, when the rapidly industrializing city began expanding into the area. By the 1890s the street had been almost fully developed as a neighborhood commercial center, serving the large residential area traversed by Orange Street and Whitney Avenue to the west. Most of the buildings lining State Street date to this first period of development. They are architecturally and functionally diverse, including commercial buildings, mixed-use commercial/residential buildings, light industrial buildings, and churches. Many of the commercial buildings have retained original features of their storefronts. Only a small number of buildings from that period have been demolished, and the surrounding streetscape suffered from the construction of Interstate 91 in the mid-20th century. Gallery See also National Register of Historic Places listings in New Haven, Connecticut References External links New Haven Preservation Trust: Upper State Street Historic District, with text adapted from NRHP nomination plus gallery of 10 photos Upper State Street Association
Viets' Tavern

Viets' Tavern is an 18th-century tavern on Newgate Road, directly across the street from the Old Newgate Prison State Historical Site in East Granby, Connecticut. The building was home for many years to the prison warden, who also operated it as a tavern. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Description and history Viets' Tavern is located in a rural setting of Northern East Granby, set close to the East Side of Newgate Road opposite the former prison complex, now a state-run historic site. It is a two-story wood frame L-shaped structure, with a cross gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The crook of the L is filled by a two-story frame addition, also with a gabled roof. Its main facade faces south, and is five bays wide. The bays are slightly asymmetrical in their placement, with the main entrance roughly at the center, framed by simple moulding. A secondary entrance is located at the north end of the four-bay street-facing facade. The interior includes several original fireplaces, as well as evidence of a ballroom space with cove ceiling on the second floor. The date of the construction of this building is not known, but there are multiple references to a tavern at this location in historical records. In 1712, Dr. John Viets was granted a license by the town of Turkey Hills (now East Granby) to "keep a house of public entertainment." His son John also had a tavernkeepers licenses, and served as warden at the prison until his death by smallpox in 1777. Luke Viets, John's son, continued to operate the tavern until 1834, and it continued to be the site of traveler accommodations into the late 19th century. The Connecticut Historical Society has a photograph of an early 19th-century sign at the location with the date 1790, although the sign was destroyed in a 1904 fire. During the prison's active period, the tavern was popular, not only with prison officials and visitors, but also some of the convicts. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut List of sites administered by the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office References
W.F. Kaynor Technical High School

W. F. Kaynor Technical High School, or Kaynor Tech, is a technical high school located in Waterbury, Connecticut. Students from Waterbury and the surrounding towns can attend Kaynor. Kaynor Tech is part of the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System. History Since opening in 1953, W.F. Kaynor Technical High School has undergone three expansion projects that have reflected the changing complexion of the community and have kept pace with technology. When the school was initially opened, ten trades were offered. In 1968, one of the trades, "Watch, Clock, and Instrument Making", was considered obsolete and was replaced by Electronics. In 1973 Automotive Collision Repair was moved into its new location after years of sharing space with Automotive Trade. Plumbing and Heating was also added at this time. In 1982, Culinary Arts was added. In 1985, Automatic Screw Machine was added, but a lack of interest by students, coupled with a decreased need in the community, resulted in termination of the program in 1989. In the 2009 school year Health Technology was added. The Fashion shop was no longer available to be selected as of 2014. Beginning in the fall of 2015, Informational Systems Technology will be offered in its place. Technologies In addition to a complete academic program leading to a high school diploma, students attending Kaynor Tech receive training in one of the following trades and technologies: Athletics Notable alumni Scott Conant - Culinary, class of 1989. Conant has been on many cooking shows, including Top Chef, Chopped, and 24 Hour Restaurant Battle References External links Official website
Wadsworth Falls State Park

Wadsworth Falls State Park (auch einfach: Wadsworth Falls) ist ein State Park auf dem Gebiet der Städte Middletown und Middlefield im US-Bundesstaat Connecticut. Der Park liegt in der nordöstlichen Ecke von Middlefield und erstreckt sich über die Stadtgrenze nach Middletown, mit dem Haupteingang an der Route 157. Geographie Der Park bedeckt eine Fläche von 115 ha und verfügt über mehrere Wanderwege. Der Coginchaug River, ein Zufluss des Connecticut River, durchquert den Park. Es besteht die Möglichkeit zum Picknicken und es gibt einen kleinen Badesee mit zementiertem Grund. Das Wasser kommt aus Quellen in der Nähe des Coginchaug River. Eine kleine Brücke führt zu den Wasserfällen am Wadsworth Brook. Ein weiterer Bach im Park ist der Laurel Grove Brook. Unter den Sandsteinschichten des Portland Arkose tritt an manchen Stellen Hampden Basalt zu Tage. Die Wadsworth Falls Wadsworth Falls liegen auf der dem Haupteingang gegenüberliegenden Seite des Parks und können mit dem Auto über die Cherry Hill Road erreicht werden. Die Wadsworth Falls sind ca. 9 m (30 feet) hoch, und 16 m (52 feet) lang. Das Wasser ergießt sich über Sandsteinbänke. Geschichte Die Wasserfälle wurden nach Clarence C. Wadsworth benannt, einem Oberst der New York National Guard. Ihm gehörte das Land, auf dem der Park sich heute erstreckt. Wadsworth hatte einen guten Ruf als Wissenschaftler und beschäftigte sich hauptsächlich mit Linguistik. Nachdem er sich in Middletown niedergelassen hatte, wo er in der Nähe der Wesleyan University war, machte er es sich zur Aufgabe, die Wadsworth Falls unter Schutz zu stellen. Mit seinem Testament gründete er die Rockfall Corporation, die mit dem Schutz der Landschaft, Pflanzen und Tiere auf seinem Anwesen beauftragt wurde. 1942 wurden 108 ha des Landes an den State of Connecticut übergeben. Das Mansion Auch wenn es nicht zum Land des State Parks gehört, liegt das Long Hill Estate mansion, das einst Clarence C. Wadsworth gehörte in unmittelbarer Nähe des Parks . Es kann auf Wanderwegen besucht werden. Heute befindet es sich in Privatbesitz und wird nach umfassenden Renovierungsarbeiten als Veranstaltungsraum genutzt. Siehe auch State Parks in Connecticut Weblinks Wadsworth Falls State Park Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Wadsworth Falls State Park Map Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Einzelnachweise