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Raritan Arsenal, Assembly Plant K2, 2890 Woodbridge Avenue, Bonhamtown, Middlesex County, NJ

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Significance: Assembly Plant K2 is significant as a typical industrial building constructed at the Arsenal during World War I. The building is a core structure in the initial development of the manufacturing plant at the Arsenal and for its ongoing role in military manufacturing, primarily as a carpentry shop and as a vehicle rebuild shop.

Survey number: HABS NJ-1061-J

Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1921 Subsequent Work

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Date

1918 - 1980
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Snare & Triest Company
Richard Grubb & Associates, contractor
Vergara, M, transmitter
Reinbold, Martin, photographer
Spies, Stacy E, historian
Frasier, Marilyn, historian
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Location

bonhamtown ,  40.41114, -74.35875
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Library of Congress
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http://www.loc.gov/
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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