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Plasticrete was a Hamden, Connecticut concrete products manufacturer founded by Ciro Paolella in the 1940s, evolving from the Hamden Building Tile Company into a major regional supplier of concrete masonry units. The company is best remembered in architectural circles for producing the first fluted, corduroy-style concrete profile block in the United States, developed in collaboration with architect Paul Rudolph. Its textured units gave a distinctive ribbed expression to Brutalist works such as Crawford Manor in New Haven, leaving a lasting imprint on mid-century American concrete construction.
Crawford Manor is a public housing community built initially as an elderly enclave in 1962. It was the first high-rise project for the elderly in New Haven, and it is…
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