Monday, September 6, 2010

Project: Walking Tour of Bridgeport's South End

Questions for Eric Lehman:
  1. Was the Warner Brothers Factory built by the same Warner Brothers as in Warner Brother's Records?
  2. What the heck is a Locomobile?
  3. What year did the Remington Factory close it's doors? And why doesn't the city of Bridgeport knock this, and other decaying buildings, down?
  4. Is the public still allowed access to Pleasure Beach? What is there?
  5. Are the statues of P.T. Barnum and Elias Howe ever going to get a makeover?
  6. Has the Blackrock Lighthouse been renovated? Or is it slowly rotting away?
  7. Why was Barnum's daughter's house saved and transformed into Waldermere Hall?
  8. What happened to Barnum's  Marina Mansion?
Statue of Elias Howe
Statue of P.T. Barnum

 Warner Brothers Factory circa 1876
Former Locomobile Factory site
Former Remington Factory Building
Pleasure Beach?
Fones School of Dental Hygiene
Harvey Hubbel Gymnasium
Perry Arch circa 1918
Seaside Park
Black Rock Lighthouse circa 1823
Waldermere Hall
Original Gate of Marina Mansion
Cortright Hall

The Seaside Institue circa 1886
Lafayette and Atlantic


1 comment:

  1. 1. or warners brothers studio, cause that s what i thought.

    4 and 6 are good questions and barmun's mansion i think is the one the corner from marina dining hall.

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