Buildings and Structures
Connecticut's built environment ranges from 1600s homes through mills and factories to modern skyscrapers. This collection includes some of the thousands of photographs taken, and hundreds of documents written about them.
Important sub-collections include the WPA Architectural Survey or Census of Old Buildings, a Works Progress Administration (WPA) survey of nearly 5,000 buildings, and the Mills collection of photographer Lewis Sprague Mills. Other Mills photographs are in the Agriculture collection.
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The Town Search list includes the modern names of the 169 towns incorporated in Connecticut. For other place names, and for towns whose names have changed, see Connecticut Towns and Counties to identify the current town name, or Unique Connecticut Place Names. You can also search for non-town names by doing a basic 'search'. |
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Use Advanced Search to search by keyword(s), search by a specific field such as creator or subject, search by Date(s), or to combine search terms such as building type and town.
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If you know any more information about a building, please click on the 'Tell Us More' e-mail link in each building's metadata. Examples may include Street Address, Current Owner, Present Use, No Longer Standing, etc. Please include where you acquired the information, if possible.
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