The Dark Corner (2014)

Farm at Southbury Training School — Southbury, Connecticut

The bright summer day still allows for some dark recesses to the barn – captured in this image with just the right amount of light coming in to show off the great textural qualities of this old structure.

Nikon D700 FX

Southbury Training School — Southbury, CT

Got Cows? (2014)

Farm at Southbury Training School — Southbury, Connecticut

The abandoned stalls where the dairy cows once lived.

Nikon D700 FX

Southbury Training School — Southbury, CT

Hay There (2014)

Farm at Southbury Training School — Southbury, Connecticut

Nature relentlessly creeps into this hay storage barn at Southbury Training School.

Nikon D700 FX

Southbury Training School — Southbury, CT

Dairy Barn (2014)

Farm at Southbury Training School — Southbury, Connecticut

Once a fully functioning dairy farm that supplied the residents with fresh milk, the last 101 cows of the herd were sold in 2003 to local farmer Edward Platt for $97,000 at auction.

Nikon D700 FX

Southbury Training School — Southbury, CT

Inside Out or Outside In? (2014)

Thompson Hall at Southbury Training School — Southbury, Connecticut

Patrick O’Brien, the assistant director of the Connecticut Bureau of Assets Management, wrote that the school “is typically in a state of disrepair to the point where a certificate of occupancy would be difficult to obtain. Indeed, many existing structures are beyond salvage and require environmental remediation and demolition.”

 

Nikon D700 FX

Southbury Training School, Southbury, CT

Southbury Training School (2014)

Thompson Hall at Southbury Training School — Southbury, Connecticut

Southbury Training School is a large residential facility in the towns of Southbury and Roxbury, Connecticut; built in the 1930s as a large state-funded and operated center for adults with learning disabilities. Consisting of 150 buildings and structures situated on a campus of 1,600 acres. At its peak it was home to a population of 3000 residents and employed a staff of nearly 400.

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Southbury Training School, Southbury, CT

Lasting Impressionism (2015)

Bristol Manufacturing — Waterbury, Connecticut

From a cold and snowy day in February, I offer up this final image to give you the feeling of being along with me…cold, but pleased  to be able to capture this Urbex gem once more. Until I return, this is the end of our visit to Bristol Mfg. Tomorrow, on to a new location.

Nikon D80 with heavy Photoshop processing

You can find some of my earlier visits to Bristol Manufacturing in my book: In a Different Light

Bristol Manufacturing — Waterbury, CT

Teeth of Mice (2013)

Bristol Manufacturing — Waterbury, Connecticut

“… long before you were born, this heap of decay, was brought here. It and I have worn away together. The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than teeth of mice have gnawed at me.”  — Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Modified Nikon D100 (Near IR capture)

You can find some of my earlier visits to Bristol Manufacturing in my book: In a Different Light

Bristol Manufacturing — Waterbury, CT

Am I Reading You Correctly? (2015)

Bristol Manufacturing — Waterbury, Connecticut

A vandalized instrument panel for the boilers at this complex.

Nikon D80

You can find some of my earlier visits to Bristol Manufacturing in my book: In a Different Light

Bristol Manufacturing — Waterbury, CT

Not Long for this World (2015)

Bristol Manufacturing — Waterbury, Connecticut

Ice and snow have made significant inroads into the core of the structure and a total collapse is near.

Nikon D80

You can find some of my earlier visits to Bristol Manufacturing in my book: In a Different Light

Bristol Manufacturing — Waterbury, CT