Tag Archives: architecture

Suburban Planning

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Beaver Hills is on a hill, though you won’t find any actual beavers. …

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Old-Timers

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A time traveler from New Haven’s colonial days would barely recognize it today. …

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Checking It Out

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When I woke up at the Hotel Marcel and pressed the Morning button on the bedside console, the blackout shade rolled steadily up to reveal the…

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Entertainment Center

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Few buildings in New Haven have stirred more sentiment—positive or negative—than the New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum. …

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In Progress

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A photo essay. To view all 14 photos, check out the email edition of this story.

For decades, the Pirelli Building, a.k.a. the Armstrong Rubber Building, has been stuck in the past…

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Central Air

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From hundreds of feet away on a cloudy August morning…

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Once Removed

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A photo essay. To view all 15 images, check out the email version

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Stone Turned

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It was 1822. The population of the United States had just crossed 10 million. James Monroe was in his second term as president, having won all but a single electoral vote. In New Haven, cattle-grazing had been banished from the …

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Fair Is Ferry

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A photo essay.

The State Street Bridge reopened in August 2015, about four years and…

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Creature Features

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Yale has gaggles of gargoyles—on 34 buildings, in hundreds of styles, peering over doorways, crouched on windowsills, jumping out of unexpected places, giving earthly structures a touch of the fantastical. …

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