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Fitch Foundry: The Fitch Foundry Complex 127-151 East Street in the New Haven/West Harbor area, was built around 1870 with additions constructed between 1890 and 1920. The Complex consists of multiple detached buildings, including a narrow, four-story, brick factory of mill construction with a stair tower and segmental arch windows with stone sills. There are two foundries, one located on the northern edge of the complex and the other to the south of I-95. A small, three-story, L-shaped factory, which may have been part of the Brewster Carriage Works, is on the eastern edge of the site. The foundry, which manufactured carriage and other forms of hardware, is listed by the Society for Industrial Archeology as the "most intact plant from New Haven's extensive nineteenth century carriage and carriage parts business." The complex is also in the Connecticut Register of Historic Places and is considered eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.

Fitch Foundry Photo

IMPACTS: Construction of the new Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge and the I-95/I-91/Route 34 Interchange requires the taking of the southern portion of the Fitch Foundry Complex. ConnDOT will salvage significant architectural elements from the building, to be delivered to the City of New Haven for adaptive use and/or public education purposes.

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