Whimsical Windows - Retro Gallery

For Toby's meme Whimsical Windows/Delirious Doors I am traveling back a couple of days to a reception at a new gallery in a cool old factory in a nearby town.

Owner and artist (in so many disciplines :) opened Studio E.Y.E. (Express Yourself Endlessly).

This old facility has the requisite windows to let lots of natural light in to this stylish gallery, workshop and classroom to those in the pursuit and learning of making metallic art...not to mention paint parties. A very cool place!

Whimsical Windows - Old factory with possibilities

Toby hosts the architectural meme Whimsical Windows/Delirious Doors. My subject today is the old Farrel Corporation Process Lab building in our domicile of Ansonia CT. This is the back, taken from Main Street. I am taken by the large windows and vines growing on the fire escape.

I like the style of the unused factory, and see many possibilities for. A developer has purchased this building with an eye toward redeveloping into lofts with nearly ceiling to floor lofts and retail. Being such a sold building, we taxpayers hope for its reuse...

Whimsical Windows - Old Factory Awaits Repurposing

Toby's meme Whimsical Windows/Delirious Doors is back for the week; before today’s post, I hope and pray for peace for Israel - I admire your country - not as a Christian pre-millenialist, but as someone who tries to discern between good and evil - we all hope for peace for Israel and hope the worst will soon end, and that Goldin’s intended can find peace amidst her (and your country's) sadness… 

Today I look at an Ansonia landmark, the old Ansonia Copper and Brass, and old factory that could not compete in competetive world markets with its 1800s facility set upon its 44 acres. Patti wrote a story last week about ways to reclaim the property for other uses, with our new Mayor Dave Cassetti looking at and considering other opportunities...

Whimsical Windows - Post Industrial

Toby's hosts the informative Whimsical Windows/Delirious Doors in which we look for architectural portals and other details. Today I am in our domicile of Ansonia Connecticut, and down the steep hill (9° slope) to nearer the river and just past the commuter train track to the old Farrel Company. The buildings date back to the 1800s and despite the shabby presence yet are still impressive, Built at a time where solid construction led to a permanence we still see. We can almost imagine the large number of workers passing by during a shift change...local history is always fascinating

Shadow Shot Sunday - Old industrial

An old world exists just north of the Ansonia CT train platform - I once noticed shadows and drove down the end of West Main Street to look for subjects for Shadow Shot Sunday 2. Past the Maple Street overpass are two old structures of once bustling Farrel Machinery plant. It seems lost in time and shadow...a black-and-white edit seems appropriate for this, we are lost in place that feels like 1920 or so.

The complex sits next to the sole track on the commuter railroad's Waterbury-Bridgeport line. Here is a grade crossing, once a train stop for the factory. The sign seems quite explicit: stop, look and listen. A very large truck is no match for a much heavier and faster moving diesel locomotive, much less my minivan...

This looks of a day long past with hundreds of workers per shift, building rubber and mixing machinery for export. Shadows are interspersed with the weeds...