SCOVILLE HOMES NEIGHBORHOOD REDEVELOPMENT STUDY

Team: Chris Yost, Ashley Forde

In the early part of the twentieth century the Scoville Manufacturing Company of Waterbury was the largest brass factory in the country, employing over 13,000 workers in 1920. In 1917-18, Scoville developed a three block neighborhood of worker’s housing in Waterbury’s north end. This development, which is still mainly intact, consists of seven large blocks of two-story attached brick row houses, that form a striking contrast with the predominant fabric of wood frame and clapboard triple-deckers in the hills surrounding Waterbury’s old industrial core. The YUDW worked with the new neighborhood association, Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury and the University of Connecticut’s Connecticut Urban Legal Initiative to develop a concept plan and design guidelines for the revitalization of this historic neighborhood. Design work focused on the streetscape, public spaces, and service areas of the neighborhood, along with the challenges of restoring and protecting the original character of the buildings.