January 2018 Program

Restoring and Reusing Our Industrial Heritage: Mill Conversion Projects

Rockville/Vernon residents continue to enjoy watching the conversion of our old, empty and decaying mill buildings into beautiful and functional living quarters. We wonder about the effort and investments required to initiate and complete projects of this magnitude.

The Roosevelt Mill building now the Loom City Lofts

Renee Tribert and Wes Haynes from the Making Places Program of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation will discuss how Vernon and other Connecticut towns have transformed aging and empty mills, once the site of thriving businesses and productive workforces, into beautiful buildings refurbished and designed to provide new homes for community residents and new locations for commercial enterprises. Vernon and its Rockville section are home to a number of mill conversions, and we hope there are more to come, but what an enormous and time consuming undertaking! Ms. Tribert and Mr. Haynes will tell us about what is involved in initiating and completing such a conversion project, and we’ll learn about what other Connecticut towns have done. The program will begin at 2pm on Sunday, January 14th 2018 (Snow Date-Sunday, January 21st 2018 ) at the Vernon Historical Society’s building at 734 Hartford Turnpike, Vernon. The program is free and open to the public. For further information, please call the Society at 860-875-4326 or send an email to [email protected] or visit our webpage at www.vernonhistoricalsoc.org

Talcott Brothers Mill newly reopened as Old Talcott Mill Apartments

Special Announcement to VHS Members President Tara Remillard invites all members to the Annual Meeting of the Society scheduled for Sunday, January 14th, 2018 at 1pm (Snow Day, Sunday January 21th). At that time, elections for officers will be held and other pertinent business will be presented to the membership.