A great example to the ruinous death to American heavy industry. This place has been abandoned just 11 years ago and it is slated for demolition. The giant machines stand like sentinels inside the enormous workshops, waiting in vain for the return of the people once worked there. More pictures:
Here are a few pictures from the Farrel Corp site in Ansonia, Connecticut. It used to be one of the biggest manufacturing company in the state, but by now the global competition made a real dent in its size. Still the factory, now owned by HF Machinery Group is still churning out orders for machines for the plastic industry and its future seems bright. The pictures are from both the old parts, (that is not in use anymore ) and the working section of the factory.
We had the good fortune to get permission to photograph inside of the closed down section of Stanley Works Factory. Founded by Federick T. Stanley in 1843, originally a bolt and door hardware manufacturing company located in New Britain, Connecticut, was one of the biggest employer in the state . The complex is huge, we hope to get back many more times .
Built in 1869-70 the Ansonia Opera House was the earliest Opera House in Connecticut. However it has fallen on hard times in modern times, seats have been removed from the main area and turned into a basketball court, dressing rooms converted into ( now abandoned ) offices, storage places for different items, including some mannequins.
My friend Ted Roth and myself spent quite a bit of time moving these mannequins around to different parts of the theater.
Hope you enjoy the arrangements.
The place where the old cars and trucks go to their final sleep.
Yesterday we, that is my friend Ted Roth and myself, returned to the Waterbury branch to the now closed Ansonia Brass factory. The place is getting cleaned up, bit by bit, quite a few of the machinery is gone now, probably on trucks on their way to their new home in Mexico. There is still a lot more to photograph and we are planning to go back as long as it is possible.
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I took these pictures in 2010 when the building was still in a good enough condition for going inside and carefully walk around. The roof was in pretty bad condition even by than and you can see the sky through the openings . Lots of the floor boards collapsing to the next level, so you had to be extremely careful where you stepped. My understanding is that it is scheduled for demolition this year. One more of a once beautiful buildings will be gone forever.
Just recently I stopped by Battle Hill Forge in Millerton , New York. This guys make the most incredible creations out of wrought iron, On their site there is a special nook/garden where they put all their Halloween creations. It is a bit creepy, scary, ( after all that is what Halloween is about) definitely not for everyone’s taste, but a great spot to take some pictures. Oh, almost forgot to mention, the people in the garden are the creators.
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It is a grandiose place, built by people who dream big.
Has fallen into hard times in the last fifty years, but now it is on the way back.
The exterior of the building has been completely redone and there is high hope that the interior will be finished as well.
For my purposes, I liked it just the way it was, the old grandeur still shining through.
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There are a few abandoned farmhouses in the Northwest corner of Connecticut and quite a lot more in the adjoining New York counties, where I have done extensive photography trips with my good friend Ted Roth.
We have managed to “discover” and photograph many of them, every single one being a “dream house” for us, with falling apart furniture, cracking floorboards, rusting appliances.
These pictures are from Kent, Connecticut
