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| Title main | 145-155 Water Street, Wooster Square project area, New Haven, before redevelopment. |
| Subject lcsh topical | Urban renewal
Commercial buildings
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| Subject lcsh genre | Photographs
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| Subject tiger geographic | 145-155 Water Street (New Haven, Conn.)
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| Category | Infrastructure
Livelihood
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| Description | View of commercial buildings at 145-155 Water Street, Wooster Square project area, New Haven, before redevelopment. A fenced area, with a sign for C & S Dist., and the backs of two buildings can be seen. The two-story building behind the fenced area on the left has a pitched roof and boarded-up windows at the second floor level. The brick building to the right occupies a street corner. A neon sign at the corner indicates the Hitching Post Restaurant. Signs for sheet metal, heating and roofing can be seen on a building on the opposite street corner in the far right background.
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| Description notes | Title supplied by cataloger.
One of a collection of photographs taken by the New Haven Redevelopment Agency to document a massive urban planning and development project undertaken from 1956 through the mid-1970s. The federally-financed redevelopment initiative was realized through a series of projects focused on particular New Haven city neighborhoods identified by street or area names. These projects involved the demolition of old structures and construction of new buildings, roadways and other facilities.
The Wooster Square project targeted an old New Haven neighborhood with many lovely nineteenth-century houses as well as multi-family dwellings and industrial buildings. The construction of Interstates 95 and 91 and redevelopment initiatives swallowed up a number of buildings. Many others were refurbished as part of an effort to preserve the architectural heritage and character of the neighborhood.
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| Date created | 1961. |
| Format extent | 1 photograph ; 8 1/8 x 10 in.
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| Format medium | image/jpeg |
| Identifier | File name: nhchs_pha_nhrapc_f536_ph04.jpg
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| Source | New Haven Museum and Historical Society |
| Relation isPartOf | The New Haven Redevelopment Agency Photograph Collection.
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| Rights | Reproduction and copyright information regarding this image is available from The New Haven Museum and Historical Society. |
| SeqNum | 1426 |
| ObjCol | Photographs |
University of Connecticut | 
