Connecticut Mental Health Center

Plans for a modernist mental health building were created and developed during the Urban Renewal Era in the 1950s-1960s. As a result, the Connecticut Mental Health Center was completed in 1966, replacing the residential homes that existed on the land prior. The building fits in with the surrounding medical facilities, most of which also carry similar modernist architectural elements such as reinforced concrete, brick, rectangular/cubic shapes, and large windows. It was built to not only extend the increasing number of medical facilities in the area, but also to offer mental health and addiction services to the underinsured/uninsured members of the greater New Haven community. (3)