Horse Ridge Cellars Bank Bunker, Connecticut

This is a remote underground bunker next to a farm in northern Connecticut, located at a safe distance from New York and Boston, to preserve corporate records in the event of a nuclear attack. It was built in 1962 by the Underground Record Protection Cooperative Trust, a group of banks and insurance companies. With ten thousand square feet of underground space, it was designed to house a few dozen people too, presumably executives associated with the Trust, for a few weeks, and had decontamination showers, cots, and food rations. After its original purpose ended, somewhere in the early 1990s, the bunker changed hands a few times, then fell into disuse. In 2013, it opened as a secure wine storage facility for Horse Ridge Cellars. Major renovations have since taken place at the site.

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