Inside the Flat Wire Mill

Inside, the Flat Wire Mill is a shadowy sundial of delicate trusswork that spins like a kaleidoscope through days and seasons. Was this the space that housed the Wallace & Sons Brass Co? By 1906 the Sanborn map will identify it as the Coe Brass Co. The space is made of three, long buildings ending in three south-facing gables that are shown on the 1921 aerial map of Ansonia and on Sanborn maps back to 1906. The old space of the “Tumbling Bbl’s” had by 1906 become the “Rivet Shop.” It still hangs into the Flat Wire Mill interior. A door at the end leads to several steps that hang above this mill. The steps provided access to a crane that was removed in 2015. It is a strange thing to see that stair to nowhere dangling there.