Enterprise Pottery, Straw Storage Building, 650 New York Avenue, Trenton, Mercer County, NJ

Significance: The Straw Storage Building of the Enterprise Pottery is significant as the former repository for straw used to pack sanitary pottery for shipment. Enterprise Pottery, one of more than a dozen sanitary potteries in operation in Trenton at the turn of the twentieth century, was reportedly the first purpose-built industrial pottery in the United States specifically set up to manufacture sanitary earthenware. During the twentieth century, most of the buildings of Trenton's potteries have been demolished of substantially altered. The straw storage building of the Enterprise Pottery represents a rare survival 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-B
Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Initial Construction