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Winter 2009/2010
VOLUME 8 / NUMBER 1
IN THIS ISSUE: Built it/Razed It III

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Mad for Moderns

The Bright Lights of the Berlin Turnpike

Connecticut Says “Lights, Camera, Action!”
The Metal House with Mettle

On the cover: Left to right: Bowen House, photo: Robert Gregson; Olympia Diner, photo: Robert Gregson; Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House, © RKO Radio Pictures; a Lustron House, photo: Robert Gregson

Contents: Features
pg 12
Modernism in Connecticut
Our most Modern architecture.
Photographs and text by Robert Gregson
pg 18
Connecticut’s Star Turn in Film
The state sets the scene in movies old and new.
By Jeanine Basinger
Pg 24
A Hip Road Trip
Berlin’s “Gasoline Alley” still thrills.
By Mary M. Donohue
pg 30
The Modernism of Theodate Pope
Mining the past, an architect breaks with tradition.
By James F. O’Gorman
pg 36
Metal Homes for the Atomic Age
Sleek and stylish, prefab Lustron houses called Connecticut home.
By Stacey Vairo
Departments
pg 9

Hog River Journal

pg 10

Letters, etc.

pg 12

Modernism in Connecticut. Photographs and text by Robert Gregson

pg 18 Connecticut’s Star Turn in Film. By Jeanine Basinger
pg 24 A Hip Road Trip. By Mary M. Donohue
pg 30 The Modernism of Theodate Pope. By James F. O’Gorman
pg 36 Metal Homes for the Atomic Age. By Stacey Vairo

pg 42

Shoebox Archives: Modern in Manchester. By Mary Dunne
pg 44 The Answer Is Risom! By Mary Dunne
pg 46 Philip Johnson in His Own Words. By Elizabeth Normen
pg 47 Soapbox: City Seeks Reunion in Alternative I-84 By Tom Condon
pg 48 Spotlight: Events & News from Partner Organizations

Sample articles from past issues:

WINTER 2009/2010

FALL/2009

Girls Can Play, Too!: Women’s Basketball in Connecticut

The Meriden Buzz Saw

Destination: The Nation’s Oldest High-School Football Rivalry

SUMMER/2009

History in a Dog-Eared Cookbook

Oral History: What It Is & How To Do It

The Collection of Alfred Atmore Pope at Hill-Stead Museum

SPRING/2009

Cruising the Thimble Islands

New London’s Indian Mariners

Kate Moore, Keeper of Fayerweather Lighthouse

WINTER/2008-2009

Making A Home for Orphans

East Haven’s Wildest Irish Rose

Flying the Banner for Temperance

FALL/2008

What These Walls Have Heard!

Charles Ives, Connecticut’s Compelling, Confounding Composer

Ivoryton

SUMMER /2008

Taking a Ride Down the Hog River–Reprint in PDF form available online!

Quarry that Built Boston and New York City

Weir Farm

SPRING /2008

The Rise and Fall of Silas Brooks, Balloonist

Destination: A Short History of Connecticut’s Racetracks

Destination: Tracking Down Our Classic Roller Coasters

WINTER 2007/2008

The Legend of The Charter Oak

Nutmeg Adds Spice. But is it Nice?

Weston Meteorite

FALL 2007

The Fuller Brush Company

Everyman’s Time: The Rise and Fall of Connecticut’s Clockmaking

The Bright Lights of Willimantic

SUMMER 2007

“Cast down on every side”: The Ill-Fated Campaign to Found an “ African College” in New Haven

Educated in One Room

West of Eden: Ohio Land Speculation Benefits Connecticut Public Schools

SPRING 2007

Ninety Days that Sickened Connecticut

Doctoring on the Field of Battle

James Pharmacy

WINTER 2006/2007

Federal Art Project in New Haven

Norwich’s Renaissance Man

Impressions of the Impressionists

FALL 2006

The Great San Francisco Earthquake

Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London

The Kent Iron Furnace

SUMMER 2006

Escape from New-Gate Prison

Written in Stone

Hammonasset Beach State Park Summers

SPRING 2006

Hebrew Tillers of the Soil

The First American Cookbook

What We Loved to Eat

WINTER 2005/2006

A Valley Flooded

Making a Success of Coltsville

In a Neighborhood, A Boy’s World

FALL 2005

The “Conference” State

Glimpses of Lincoln’s Brilliance

Stamping Out the Reds

SUMMER 2005

Making Their Presence Known

What’s a Puritan?

Enfield’s Shaker Legacy

Faith Congregational Church

SPRING 2005

The Horseless Era Arrives

Creative License, or Fundamental Fact?

The Sky’s the Limit

A Century of Connecticut Inventions

2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005

Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School

The Enigma of Wallace Stevens

Lunch with Monet

AUG/SEP/OCT 2004

The Education of Ella Grasso

Ancient Burying Ground

Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager

MAY/JUN/JUL 2004

Miracle on Capital Avenue

Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War

A Piece of Silk Tells of the Richly Textured Fabric of Mill Town Life

FEB/MAR/APR 2004

Hospital Rock

A Well-stocked Saddlebag for the Doctor on Horseback

2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004

A War Contested

“If You Don’t Need It, DON’T BUY IT”

Manufacturing for the War Effort

Fighting for Freedom

SUMMER 2003

An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age

Audacious Alliances

Sophia Woodhouse’s Grass Bonnets

SPRING 2003

Hartford’s Motion Picture Palaces

A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy

The Hartford Dark Blues

WINTER 2003

A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing

The Last 18th-Century House on Main Street

Francis Goodwin II’s reflections on the wild and wooly three-day opening of the Bulkeley Bridge

FALL 2002

A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History

Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut

A “Tomitude”