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.
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.