Crumbling walls of historic brownstones increasing worry for CT national park. ‘It’s going to get bad’

Crumbling walls of historic brownstones increasing worry for CT national park. ‘It’s going to get bad’

A pair of brick-and-brownstone buildings at the former Colt firearms complex — structures once at the heart of gun manufacturing in Hartford — have survived 170 years, the now-forlorn buildings set for conversion to a visitor center when the Coltsville National Historical Park officially opens. But the park’s opening — backed by federal lawmakers a decade ago and first envisioned a decade before that— still has not come to fruition. The years of…