The 240-apartment ‘Lofts at Yale and Towne’ building at 200 Henry Street in the South End is one of the last survivors of the industrial complex built by the eponymous lock company in the Nineteenth and Twentieth-Centuries. Subsidence in the water table underneath the structure has exposed its wooden underpinnings, and the building is now leaning, too dangerously, says the owner’s engineer, for it to be saved. 

Historic Neighborhood Preservation, the State Historic Preservation Office, and Preservation Connecticut want a second opinion. Before the city allows the building to be condemned or demolished, please join us in demanding that the City of Stamford allow for examination of the structure by a second, neutral, party.

The South End historic district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its strong sense of place, the architectural quality of its buildings and the stories they tell about Stamford's history, of which the former Yale and Towne building is one of its more significant. Fewer than half of the original historic district buildings remain standing. Now current owner of the former Yale and Towne complex, Gaia Real Estate, says the historic building can’t be saved due to these structural issues. 

Help us get a definitive answer to that question. Please sign this petition.

We, the undersigned, oppose the demolition of 200 Henry Street until a ‘second opinion’ can be rendered by a neutral party--an appropriate engineering firm with experience in this kind of structural issue. We urge the City of Stamford not to issue a condemnation order or a demolition permit until a definitive ‘second opinion’ is provided.