New Canaan There & Then: Captain George J. Santry
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‘New Canaan There & Then’ is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Bettina Hegel, Joanne Santulli, Dawn Sterner and Pam Stutz.
New Canaan resident Captain George J. Santry identified an important European technology to create the precast concrete that was used to build the Thule Airfield in Greenland, a top-secret U.S. Department of Defense Cold War project.
He then brought the material to the United States where it was used by notable New Canaan architects Philip Johnson for various projects and John Johansen for the U.S. Embassy in Dublin.