Architectural Design, Historic Research & Presentations, Walking Tours & Vintage Photography The firm is headed by Colin M. Caplan.
We provide multiple services that specialize in the fields of architectural design, city planning, history, architectural history, genealogy, tourism, education, book publishing and photography.
12/30/2020
Who's with ME?? Make Pizza Connecticut's State Food!!!
Sign my petition The Pizza Bill:
https://www.change.org/ThePizzaBill
Sign the Petition Pizza Should Be Connecticut's State Food
05/24/2019
Some of these historic pizzerias go back almost 100 years with Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana being the 5th oldest continuously running pizzeria in the United States!
The Apizza 8 is settled.
Pepe's Pizza
Sally's Apizza
Modern Apizza
BAR - New Haven
Roseland Apizza
Zuppardi's Apizza
Ernie's Pizzeria
Mikes Apizza
Honorable mentions: Brick Oven Pizza Tolli's Apizza Next Door Big Green Truck Pizza DePalmas Apizza Yorkside Pizza Abate Apizza and then there’s the remaining 300 pizzerias in Greater New Haven! Nothing to complain about!
05/01/2019
Learn how and why only New Haven uses the word apizza on this Sunday's Pizza Lovers Tour with Taste of New Haven!!
Pizza Lovers Tour - Taste of New Haven Pizza lovers and beer buffs will love this history laden walking tour from the famous Wooster Street pizzerias to the buzz of Downtown and the quaint corners of East Rock. Get your walking shoes on and don’t bother eating breakfast for New Haven’s only pizza-only walking tour! On this 5-Hour Piz...
01/15/2016
Here's another piece of history about to be lost due to poor management aka demolition by neglect. The old National Pipe Bending Co., part of a National Historic District, was a functioning building until the City told its owner to leave the site so they could redevelop it. 10 years later the powers that be have secured its destruction! The top floor still has old molds and files from the old plant.
River Street property in New Haven to be demolished NEW HAVEN >> It’s been a dream for more than a decade, but the city is finally giving up on saving part of its industrial history along River Street.
12/15/2015
Sharing a fun ad from the New Haven Register for the first show at the old Westville Theatre, a sneak preview on November 19, 1940.
10/05/2015
Toad's Place offered "The Finest Continental Cuisine" in 1975!
08/17/2015
AKA demolition by neglect, and neglectful of preserving New Haven's historic legacy.
Downtown Building Collapsing | New Haven Independent The upper facade of a downtown building fell to the ground around 10 p.m. Sunday night, as the city's building official condemned it and ordered it torn down. Building Official...
08/05/2015
Check out Daily Nutmeg's article written by Colin on New Haven's trolley history! It's a moving read.
Time Travel - Daily Nutmeg F rom well into the 19th century to well into the 20th, trolleys were the method of choice for getting New Haveners where they needed to go. Although horse-drawn street trolleys had already emerged in Wales by 1807, New Haven’s first versions hit the road in 1860, operated by the Fair Haven and West…
03/16/2015
Right now crews are demolishing a New Haven landmark: the J Press Building at 262 York Street, built as a townhouse mansion in the Second Empire Victorian style for Cornelius Pierpont in 1860, Pierpont ran a grocery store on the corner of York of Broadway. Although J Press "determined the building is beyond repair," and the Building Department stated "It must come down," two crew members told me that there was nothing structurally unrepairable with the building. Here's an interior view of when the place was called the Jigger Shop, and even served pizza in the mid 1930s.
02/27/2015
The show must go on! We are planning future presentation of Colin's theater talk so stay tuned. Here's a great article that sums up some of the talk's best acts.
Randall Beach: Remembering the days when movie theaters were downtown palaces or in our neighborhood Colin Caplan stood behind a podium at the New Haven Free Public Library, showing us a series of photographs, briefly bringing back to life 78 movie theaters and assembly halls from the past 165 years in New Haven.
01/30/2015
Besides running his family business, The New Haven Clock Co., Walter Camp was adamant about modernizing American Football. In 1882 he began creating rules that were first practiced on the New Haven Green. The first game with modern rules followed at Hamilton Park on Whalley Avenue. As a testament to Yale's role in the game, the Yale Bowl was built in 1914 as the world's largest arena and it once was temporary home to the NY Jets and Giants during the 1960s. When you enjoy , think of this!
01/15/2015
New Haven made in 1882, The Gun the Won The West, found today in Nevada!
Great Basin National Park | National Parks Traveler Usually you need to head into a museum to see what turned up in the backcountry of Great Basin National Park: A 132-year-old Wi******er rifle.