SEAMCO Shipping Center

The "SEAMCO Shipping Center" spells it out in modern chrome lettering on this utilitarian brick garage. Five large doors and nine punched windows give the building its rhythm. Part of a collection of buildings that belonged to the Seamless Rubber Company, this postwar structure comes relatively late in the game. Now belongs to Yale.

The 1973 fire insurance map shows a group of SEAMCO buildings, including a main hall, paper converting, separate areas for ice and glass, a shipping center, and other specialized buildings for rubber production and distribution.

The site of rubber company buildings from the late nineteenth century, over time filling up the block between Howard, Congress, and Daggett streets: a small rubber manufacturing district built up during the first two decades of the twentieth century.