Spring 2013 VOLUME 11/ NUMBER 2 – The Next Wave of Historic Preservation.
Buildings Can Be Recycled, Too
When Mark Twain’s House Was for Rent
From Modernist Pool House to Arts Center
Traces of World War II Right Under Our Noses
Telling a New Story at a 300-Year-Old Museum
On the cover: Hygienic Art, a nonprofit arts organization housed in a former whaling company provisioning store, New London (today) and (inset) when it was the Hygienic Restaurant, date unknown. Hygienic Art.
Table of Contents
9 Hog River Journal
10 Letters, etc.
13 From the State Historian: “Sui Generous”: The Story of a Shepherd and His Flag.
By Walter W. Woodward
14 Better the Second Time Around
Surprising new uses for old buildings. By Mary M. Donohue
20 The Cheney Company Housing Auction of 1937 READ THIS ARTICLE
During the Great Depression, a company sells off housing to its employees. By Mary M. Donohue
26 Saving Mark Twain’s House READ THIS ARTICLE
How Gilded Age politics nearly destroyed Twain’s Hartford home. By Steve Courtney
32 The Legend of Dixwell, Whalley, and Goffe READ THIS ARTICLE
Where did three of New Haven’s major thoroughfares get their names? By Christopher Pagliuco
38 Glamour and Purpose in New Haven’s Union Station
By Robert W. Grzywacz
40 Adam’s Story Revealed
By Cynthia Cormier
42 History Hidden in Plain Sight
By David K. Leff
44 Preserving Dixwell as a Model
By Christopher Wigren
46 Site Lines: Gores Pavilion for the Arts in Irwin Park, New Canaan READ THIS ARTICLE
By William D. Earls
48 Soapbox: The Vibrant Communities Initiative
By Brad Schide
50 From the Desk of Stuart Parnes, Connecticut Humanities
52 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations
57 Afterword