Classic red-brick factory buildings, with a four-story tower punctuating its two wings, were built in 1924 by the Hygienic Ice Company, and added the modest, but solid, "scale house" on the corner. The ice company functioned here until 1952. By then it was sharing space with the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 478. The union moved to the Scale House and stayed until 1960. It was a dental laboratory between 1965-1989 and a Dunkin' Donuts since 1997 and still present in 2017. Evidence suggests the factory buildings were vacant until 1991 when the Adult Probation Department became and occupant. Home to the New Haven Regional Children's Probate Court since 2009.
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