Enterprise Pottery, 650 New York Avenue, Trenton, Mercer County, NJ

Significance: The Enterprise Pottery buildings are significant as remnants of a nineteenth and early twentieth century sanitary pottery complex. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Trenton was the nation's largest producer of pottery toilets, sinks, tubs, urinals, and other sanitary ware. Enterprise, one of more than a dozen sanitary potteries in existence in Trenton during this period, was reportedly the first purpose-built industrial pottery in the United States specifically set up to manufacture sanitary earthenware. During the twentieth century, many of the buildings of Trenton's pottery works have been demolished. As a result, the remaining buildings of the Enterprise Pottery are rare architectural survivals from an industry on which Trenton built its reputation as a nationally important manufacturing center during the American Industrial Revolution.
Survey number: HAER NJ-105
Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Work