72 Blatchley Avenue, New Haven, CT
A "destination" furniture outlet located within one of New Haven's last sizable industrial streetscapes, Fairhaven Furniture has occupied the former Foskett and Bishop pipe manufacturing building since the 1980s. Specialty desks, chairs, and shuffle-boarding tables now occupy the long, open-floor mill space where metalworkers once made pipes, sprinklers, and feed-water heaters to accompany the Bigelow boilers churned out down the street. The 0.3-acre structure announces itself on Blatchley Avenue with new white and tan windows that burst from the original 1904 brick facade; once inside, blood-red pipes and a 1940s-era freight elevator with exposed mechanical pulley keep the building's history front and center. Since Fairhaven Furniture gets little foot traffic from the surrounding industrial area, it advertises extensively throughout the Elm City and its environs.
"Foskett & Bishop Co." CTMills.org. https://connecticutmills.org/find/details/foskett-and-bishop-co
Lao Eric Triffin (Fairhaven Furniture owner) in discussion with the author, July 2018.
Roth, Matthew and Bruce Clouette. "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form - River Street Historic District." National Park Service. May 20, 1988.
Researcher
Robert Scaramuccia
Date Researched
Entry Created
April 9, 2018 at 11:27 PM EST
Last Updated
July 26, 2018 at 5:20 PM EST by null
Historic Name
Style
Current Use
CommercialEra
1860-1910Neighborhood
Fair HavenTours
Year Built
1904
Architect
Unknown
Current Tenant
Roof Types
Structural Conditions
Good
Street Visibilities
Yes
Threats
None knownExternal Conditions
Good
Dimensions
Street Visibilities
Yes
Owner
Triffin and Orsini
Ownernishp Type
Client
Historic Uses
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