Georgetown

The process yielded a range of imagery from the site’s original state, through the eerie white corridors formed by the abatement containment, to the fallen debris fields where materials were sorted for recycling.

I retraced my paths many times over as passageways opened, rerouted, closed, then cleared again, illuminating weathered brick walls that spent decades in darkness.

The Great Pond at the mouth of Connecticut's Norwalk River provided turbine water power and the setting for the Gilbert & Bennett Wire Manufacturing Company, a growing company that had already introduced many innovations, from horsehair sieves in 1818 to insect wire screening during the Civil War.

Best known for its chicken wire and window screen products, the company sold the Georgetown facility in 1989 where it sat, largely abandoned until 2002.

Most of the early buildings had been destroyed in fires, but at the time of redevelopment, no less than thirteen turn-of-the-century buildings had been preserved, many obscured by massive steel warehouses and connecting roofing that were added in the 1960’s to expand operations.