Goffe St. Armory — New Haven Industrial Heritage Trails

Goffe St. Armory

New Haven was well known for its carriage industry and a number of firms clustered in Wooster Square. One of the city’s most resilient carriage-related businesses is C. Cowles & Company, which produced lanterns and other components. In 2014, Cowles finally decamped to North Haven, leaving a complex of buildings at Water and Chestnut Street now occupied by U-Haul which has converted some of the buildings to storage.

Built: 1928–1930
Address: 290 Goffe St.
Status: Vacant

Projects

Community Building in the Goffe Street Armory: The Black Expo and Pathways to Adaptive Reuse by Diane Boston and Jeffrey Wong (2020)

Press/Resources

Excavating the Armory, ArtSpace City-Wide Open Studios/Yale School of Architecture/New Haven Academy (2017–2018)

“Armory’s Rebirth Comes Into Focus” by Paul Bass, New Haven Independent (Feb. 5, 2016)

“As An ‘Open Studio,’ Armory Awes Again” by Lucy Gellman, New Haven Independent (Oct. 14, 2014)