Music Archive With 3 Million Recordings Picks Connecticut as Permanent Home

From Hartford Business:

One of the world’s largest collections of recorded music has found a permanent home in Connecticut.

The Archive of Contemporary Music, a nonprofit repository of more than 3 million sound recordings that was forced out of New York City by soaring rents, has purchased a commercial building in Ridgefield where it plans to open a public archive and cultural destination by 2028.

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Founded in 1985, ARC bills itself as America’s largest archive dedicated to popular music and contemporary recorded sound. Its holdings span more than 3,000 musical genres and include more than 3 million recordings, along with thousands of photographs, books, magazines, videos, sheet music and other artifacts documenting recorded music since 1945.

The purchase ends a yearslong search for a permanent home. Co-founder and Director B. George launched ARC in a lower Manhattan loft before the organization settled in Tribeca, where it remained until 2020. Rising rents and limited space forced the archive to close its longtime New York location, and the collection has since been housed in a storage facility in Dutchess County donated by hotelier André Balazs.

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See Also: Very First Visitor to the New ARC (via ARC)

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