Once again photos from Monday — lingering puddles and barely a breeze
reflect the shell of the powerhouse that ran Ansonia Copper & Brass.
Outside it’s been shorn of its stacks, cable guides and associated
jewelry, just as inside it was gutted of its machine muscle. Five hulking masonry furnaces at the center sit stone cold and still. How
many rains does it take for puddles to wash this riverbank clean? I
wasn’t sure I’d find anything here I hadn’t already photographed, but,
although it looked the same, it was for me a very different place.
We
didn’t enter the Powerhouse but visited three other sheds. Clustered
around the Powerhouse are the manufacturing sheds of the brassworks. The
Casting Shop where alloys were mixed and poured into billets and the
shops where billets were turned into tubes, rods and wire.
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The Casting Shop Offices
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Rod Mill Offices
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The Rod Mill
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Rail Corridor as Viewed from Metal Storage Area
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